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 hello everyone and welcome to our weekday YouTube meditation session and I'm happy to be back after being gone for a while.

And to kind of jump into introducing the meditation,

Welcome to our weekday YouTube meditation session.

And I'm happy to be back after being a little while.

Let's see.

See if I can. I'm going to be here. So let me start over again no sound I see.

I see. Sound is good, okay. So, start over again with to welcome you all and to tell you that I'm happy to be back here

at doing this morning teaching and meditating with all of you. And the theme I'd like to, or the

reference point I'd like to offer for this meditation

is one of the, probably one of the most fundamental Buddhist

principle, which is non-harming and to live with non-harming to

live with non-harming.

That meditation itself can be seen as the continual act. that meditation

the chances of harming others are small

are small as we meditate,

are small as we meditate. Maybe we neglect people sometimes and that can be

harmful. But the primary person that we're being harmless towards in meditation is ourselves.

And part of meditation then is not only a continual act of non-harming, but the deepening sensitivity to what non-harming is

for ourselves, so that we're orienting ourselves to see and understand all the way subtle and not so subtle

that we are self-harming in meditation and to harming in And many meditators don't think of their meditation from a lot in this with this

reference point but in the course of deepening and deepening their meditation

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