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

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Hello, everyone. Greetings, greetings,

wherever you are in the world. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.

And I'm joining you from Tuscany still. This is the last day, the fifth day of our there, perfectly timed. Here's,

okay, we get lots of bells at the beginning, the 4 p.m.

So, lovely to be with you and share these teachings about Sangha, about community this week.

Excuse me, sharing the teachings and feeling into the importance of community of spiritual friends and not just our receiving of community which is where our mind goes usually, but how can we be a

caring, kind, beneficial member of the community? So we've been covering different themes,

different aspects this week, and today I wanted to speak about the six principles of cordiality.

And the Buddha talks about these six principles.

And yes, the Buddhism has a lot of lists.

The Buddha loved a lot of lists.

I love lists.

I hope you love them too.

And this particular list of six principles of

cordiality are from Angutara Nikaya 612, the Saraniyya Sutta, the Saran nia sutta.

And a difference between the teaching today that these are the six principles, and I'll mention them very briefly, and then I'll guide a meditation aligned with them, is the way we think, the way we hold others in our hearts and minds.

So the three of the six aspects have to do with loving kindness,

actions of the body, actions of speech, actions of thought.

How do we think about others?

Do we think of them with kindness?

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