Dharmette: Curiosity and Goodness

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🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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This talk was given by Matthew Brensilver on 2025.07.30 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Video of this talk is available at: https://youtube.com/live/DZgjDBEef9w. ******* 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	The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.
0:05.8	Please visit our website at adioderma.org.
0:11.7	Okay. It's good to say with you.
0:18.4	Um...
0:20.0	In kind of a weird mood.
0:26.8	Not bad, but weird.
0:33.0	Anyway,
0:33.8	um, uh, yeah, it's nice to, uh, to dwell nice to dwell in Dharma together.
0:43.3	So good in the beginning, good in the middle, good in the end.
0:51.7	And as far as I can tell, that's true about this path.
1:01.2	And but the goodness evolves.
1:07.5	And I wanted to say some words about the connection between goodness and interest.
1:18.4	So some of the goodness of Dharma can't really be imagined at the beginning of the path.
1:29.3	You wouldn't be able to believe it.
1:35.3	And in the beginning, we might idealize the Dharma in some ways,
1:42.3	might be naive hopes about what it will do for our problems, for our ego.
1:49.4	We might put lineages or teachers or specific teachings on pedestals.
1:58.6	But that's not exactly the goodness of the Dharma.
2:04.2	It takes time and patience to open to just how good it is.
2:15.9	And it kind of can't be
2:17.5	summarized easily.
2:20.0	That's what
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