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

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Here we go.

Great.

So hello and welcome everyone.

Lovely to see you.

Beautiful to be with you.

So today I'd like to invite us to consider what's called a masquerader of meta or in classical language in the teachings of meta.

It's considered a near enemy of meta.

And that is love with attachment, love with attachment, with clinging, with expectation, etc.

And a lot of times for us it could actually be a bit of a puzzle.

But what is meant?

How can you love? How can you love someone without this attachment?

Because of course we're attached to people that we love and our friends and family.

So how does this thing work anyway?

Can you just willy-nilly not like them going to be a loop from them?

So I'm going to say a couple of words and then transition into meditation so that we explore it together.

So the idea here is loving without condition.

So here the word attachment is set a sense of expectation of either reciprocity or wanting them expecting them to do something for your love you back.

It's in a way if you think of generosity of heart, think of love as generosity.

Love and care is something that we give really.

So if you were generous, if you're generous to someone with this expectation with an attachment that, oh, I'm going to be generous to them so that they're generous back to me.

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