Dharmette: Gil Q&A

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🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2025.08.13 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* A machine generated transcript of this talk is available. It has not been edited by a human, so errors will exist. Download Transcript: https://www.audiodharma.org/transcripts/23976/download ******* 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.
0:06.0	Please visit our website at adioderma.org.
0:10.0	Good morning, everyone.
0:14.0	So, instead of me giving a talk and being the responsible one, how about you ask me a question? Do you
0:24.5	have any questions that you'd like me to respond to? And we need that should...
0:33.6	Someone?
0:58.0	So my question is, you know, the self-worth is... Can you turn it up a little bit for me?
1:03.0	For me, my self-worth depends on my mood and how to make it independent.
1:12.6	Make what independent of your mood? The self-worth.
1:13.6	Sorry?
1:14.6	Self-worth.
1:15.6	I'm not finding the word.
1:17.6	Self-worth.
1:18.6	Oh, self-worth is dependent on your mood.
1:21.6	Yeah.
1:22.6	Oh, so you're up for a ride then, this way and that way, roller coaster.
1:26.6	Yeah. Wow. So how do you make it like,
1:31.1	you know, kind of independent entity? But you know that's happening, right? Yeah. But you forget?
1:38.1	I mean, I get carried away. You get carried away by the mood and everything. Yeah.
1:42.5	Yeah. Thank you.
1:46.0	It's an issue for most people, this thing.
1:50.0	And it's really good to see it and know that that's going on.
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