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

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So, uh, so welcome.

So I, so I will just jump right in with a few.

So I will just jump right in with a few comments and then well sit and yeah so I was reading a the sort of origins of war, of cooperation, the possibility of peace. the good forces in us, cooperation, and then bad forces, violence.

It's not exactly like there's sort of like the two wolves

and inside of us, love and hate.

It's more like one wolf and it can become war or peace.

And so the, the Galawaki, I think the name is, says the traits and the technologies that allow people to mobilize, achieve collective action, cooperate

across groups, and sanction spoilers to enable peace are the same traits that are used to wage war.

The better our species became at creating peace, the better we also became at Waging War.

Goes on to say, while intergroup coalitionary aggression and intergroup cooperation

may be evolved traits, peace is an invention. Yeah, so the kind of same tremendous human intelligence and effort and ingenuity.

All of that can be leveraged for love or hate, for war, or peace.

And of course I'm reading this because I'm concerned, you know, and what will become of us as a society species, what will become of me, of each of us.

Peace is an invention that kind of,

there's cooperation and there's violence, but peace, that is an invention.

And so can we invent it? Can we invent it?

Ajin Cha said that we find our freedom in the same place we find our suffering.

So beautiful, we find our freedom in the same place we find our suffering.

So it's all right here.

And And, uh, let's, uh, that's, uh, that's it, set. So finding a posture that feels sustainable. You're going to see. You're going to. So, we're So it's already here.

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