Dharmette: NIsargadatta, Nothing, Everything, Wisdom, Love

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🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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This talk was given by Matthew Brensilver on 2025.08.20 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Video of this talk is available at: https://www.youtube.com/live/1psMqFnREEY. ******* 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.
0:12.0	Okay, good to see with you.
0:16.0	So, a friend was wearing a kind of interesting pair of sweatpants.
0:32.7	A lot of text on them.
0:36.4	I'm like looking,
0:38.7	his sweatpants and then I see
0:41.1	the words on his sweatpants.
0:45.4	Wisdom tells me
0:47.6	I'm nothing.
0:49.2	Love tells me I'm everything.
0:51.7	Between the two, my life flows.
0:55.7	That's a quote from Sri Nasar Gadada Maharaj.
0:59.6	It's like, okay, we are definitely in the Bay Area here.
1:05.9	That's hard to come by, Nisar Gadata sweatpants, you know.
1:11.9	But that quote, that's worth a lifetime of practice.
1:19.4	Wisdom tells me I'm nothing.
1:20.7	Love tells me I'm everything between the two my life flows.
1:26.4	So the path is about becoming less and less.
1:37.8	And the path is about dissolving into everything.
1:44.1	And we usually tend towards one pole or the other, like, okay, give me nothingness.
1:54.4	You know, the wisdom, longing for that, just melt my self into nothingness.
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