The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. You're not going to. So good morning and day to all of you on this Friday and

good day to all of you on this Friday and this is the last day on this

here in California and if and to the this is the last that day on this five-part introduction to Buddhist ethics and in thinking about the

meditation for today in relationship to that. People's ethics, how they behave ethically or how they

behave inter-personally, has a fair amount to do with their state of mind, their emotional state that they're in.

The degree of stress or lack of stress people have.

People who are stressed, or a lack of stress people have.

People who are stressed, people who are angry,

people who are afraid, people who are greedy,

tend towards a different ethical behavior than people who are calm at ease,

people who are filled with love or generosity or kindness who feel safe and contented.

These different states are very radically different.

They tap into different parts of who we are,

and they can lead to kind of different ways of thinking

or different ways of seeing the world, seeing oneself. And because of all that, it can even lead to

different ethical systems, ethical philosophies, and what gets justified and not justified and the basis for that.

And so in Buddhism we have meditation, we have guidelines for how to live a wise life that

frees us from stress, frees us from fear, frees us from greed and hatred,

hostility and anger,

and then opens up a deeper sensitivity inside.

A sensitivity that we feel others more closely,

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