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

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Good evening.

Welcome, welcome.

So, and thank you. Welcome, welcome. So in some of the previous talks the last few weeks I've been talking a little bit about metta,

this quality of the heart, this warm-heartedness that we can cultivate and develop and can have a really giant impact on our life.

And one of the premise is, is that we can connect to a feeling, I like this expression

warmheartedness, because it's vague enough that all of us can

find our way with it and not think that it has to be one perfect exact thing. So we can touch

into, feel into, experience, sense of warm-heartedness. And then as a purposeful, intentional practice, we can just expand

so that this warm-heartedness, this care, respect, love, benevolence, goodwill, whatever words

you want to use, impacts others, more and more, more and more people, bigger and bigger circles radiating out

until it goes for all beings. There's just this sense of care and respect for all beings.

Something very beautiful about this. This actually is possible. Absolutely, it's possible. We might sound like, oh, I don't know, that sounds

nice, but that was like thousands of years ago, people sitting under trees. That's not how it is now

or something like that. No, it's absolutely possible. But something that's implicit with this is as this warm-heartedness starts to get radiate out to more and more individuals, of course it's going to meet individuals who are suffering, who are having difficulties.

Of course it is.

There's like so many ourselves included, right, that are

having difficulties in this world and this life at this time. We might even say in some ways

it meets everybody is having difficulties, right? We have this first noble truth that there

is suffering. There's just whether it's the most obvious or more subtle.

So when this loving kindness, this meta radiates out and it meets suffering,

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