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Attention and Anicca, Awareness and Anatta

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

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🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This talk was given by Matthew Brensilver on 2024.12.20 at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in . ******* 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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0:00.0

So sometimes my partner might come to me with some, you know, stressed out or, you know, some little heartache or maybe just a long day at work.

0:22.4

And I do the only thing any responsible adult could do,

0:32.6

which is to solve all of her problems.

0:43.5

Yeah. which is to solve all of her problems. So I kind of start dispensing advice

0:50.3

that addresses not merely the small complications of our life,

0:55.3

but even the major themes.

1:01.0

And I subtly imply that maybe one of the problems

1:08.4

is, in fact, her view of this situation and that if she just shifted

1:18.0

kaleidoscopically things might be eased and then I kind of like layer it with like a thin coat of like new age sensitivity

1:35.6

so that it it like smells like a little bit like wisdom.

1:50.1

And at this point, she says to me,

1:54.3

I want podcast, Matthew.

2:02.7

And I say,

2:08.4

It, it, me, I'm podcast Matthew.

2:17.7

And she says, you think your podcast Matthew, but you are not podcast Matthew.

2:27.3

And then I start actually listening.

2:36.7

What does it mean to truly listen?

2:38.7

How do we listen to others?

2:42.3

How do we listen to ourselves?

2:47.8

Listening is a kind of very good metaphor for meditation, the kind of relaxed, expansive, open receptivity, the fluidity.

2:56.6

And in a way, a lot of what we're doing this week is sensing into the kind of mysterious

3:05.3

power of attention, the kind of mysterious power of attention,

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