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

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Here we go. Great. Excellent. So, hello, hello, everyone. Lovely to see you. Lovely to be with

you, dear Sanga. these last days of this year.

So given that towards the end of the year, there's always this sense of looking forward, looking back.

I wanted to invite us to reflect with metta, with kindness, with goodwill, with a sense of appreciation,

looking back at this year for people, for people who have been kind, supportive,

they've had some gift, they've given us some gift. And also, maybe later,

as I'm inviting us in this guided meditation that I will lead in, leave in a moment. Sometimes

we can also look back at the year and realize that we have grown through some challenges we've had with some people.

So can we have metta and goodwill and gratitude for them stretching us?

Again, that's not necessary.

You don't have to go to that part of the practice, but maybe starting where it's easy.

Starting where the practice is really easy and looking back, the sense of appreciation and meta, goodwill,

goodwill for those who have been of support and have been part of our path, part of our path

this year.

How's that?

So that's the invitation.

You know, all sources are coming with top ten lists and this and that.

And we do meta.

We do retrospective meta for ourselves, of course, for ourselves.

And yeah, I'd like to invite us to consider meta for ourselves

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