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A Moment of Mindfulness

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Theravada, Buddhist, Meditation, Buddha, Insight, Religion & Spirituality, Metta, Vipassana, Retreat, Dhamma, Buddhism, Dharma

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🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2024.10.30 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ******* If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ******* This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License

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

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So, So many years ago I was in graduate school I was in graduate school and in graduate school I took one philosophy class and I think I really only

0:29.6

remember one thing from that philosophy class. I'm going to teach you what I taught. And that is

0:40.0

the concept of the saddle back of the present?

0:47.2

What's the present?

0:48.2

What's the present moment?

0:50.0

How long is it?

0:52.9

Is it just like that quickly?

0:56.8

Just a flash?

0:58.6

Or is it, you know, the length of time

1:00.8

to finish a sentence.

1:03.1

How long is the present moment?

1:06.1

And so the idea was a saddleback,

1:09.2

was the idea, like a you or something.

1:12.4

That, and I suppose you could call it a hill you know

1:17.0

rather than a saddleback but that you're kind of you go into the present moment

1:22.0

present moment and you're kind of in it and then at some point you're kind of at the bottom but you're already going up but you're not quite

1:28.8

left yet left it yet so there is a of at a present moment has some kind of vague

1:35.3

temporality, some kind of vague length of time. So that's what I learned in

1:42.3

philosophy.

1:43.0

That's what I remember.

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