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

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Hello and welcome my friends to this 30-minute meditation here at Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City.

I'm delighted to be here with you and to share this.

And I want to thank you very much.

So, So this week, the overall teachings have been about different aspects of love or different forms of love.

And the first, so far far can be primarily can be seen as relational forms of love

when we have the first one care it's caring for someone including oneself

friendliness or kindness is, you know, something we do in relationship to

others, maybe to ourselves at times. And compassion is in relationship to someone who's

suffering, maybe ourselves even. And appreciative joy is the joy in relationship to other people's

joy. And maybe there's a secondary appreciation of our own well-being. And the third one

can be in relationship to other people,

but also to understand how it works.

It's best to understand that we have a capacity as human beings to have a form of love, a form of warm-hearted radiance, a form of, um, of, uh, inspired appreciation, delight, um, goodness,

that fits into the category the range of what love is, but it does not need an object.

It doesn't have to exist in relationship to anybody, anything.

It's something that can just be.

Some people, when this kind of love, will assume that it's love for the whole universe,

or that it's impersonal, that it's the love of the universe that we're experiencing in ourselves.

But I think in this early Buddhist tradition that I teach from,

it just is in our hearts, just is.

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