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

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And here we go. Okay, great. So I wanted to bring in a few words from this book that I really like.

The name of the book is called The Way to Love,

the Way to Love, here it is.

You can see all the little footnote the little papers I have in there.

As a reminder as bookmarks. So the book is by Anthony the Mello. It's called the last meditations of Anthony the Mello.

And I've actually given a talk, a couple of darma talks on this on audio drama before and so if you become interesting curious you can go listen to those

but I want to bring something else in tonight so so Anthony the Mello, I forget now if he was the Jesuit priest or what

denomination he was, but he was a priest in India and he was exposed to Buddhist teachings and the way he writes it's both

Buddhist and Christian in a very interesting way and and he doesn't mincewards.

He's it's sometimes his language is very biting,

very sharp and I bring in my own I substitute my own words for for what he uses what he

says and yet there is such clarity to his teaching, such clarity to the ways like his sword of wisdom, really sword cutting.

So what I wanted to bring in tonight is, um, yeah, the few few lines from this chapter that's called Love One

Another and at the beginning it's it, what is love?

Take a look at a rose. Is it possible for the rose to say,

I shall offer my fragrance to good and

and withhold it from bad people.

Again, he's using language that we usually don't use, right?

Good and bad, but anyway, here we go.

So here it with a grain of, take it with a grain of salt and yet. So I shall offer my fragrance to good people and

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