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Dharmette: Unquenchability and Questions of Meaning

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

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🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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This talk was given by Matthew Brensilver on 2025.07.16 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Video of this talk is available at: https://youtube.com/live/Q0AapOUGXRw. ******* 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.

0:12.5

Okay.

0:16.9

It's good to practice with you.

0:23.6

So, It's good to practice with you. So this evening, I wanted to address something different, something we don't often address.

0:37.0

I want to talk about golf.

0:45.6

GeoLF.

0:48.7

I follow sports ball pretty closely and, um, uh, partially because the skills are just amazing.

0:59.6

And also I sort of feel like I need things to care about that don't matter.

1:06.9

I care about a lot that matters.

1:09.5

And I need some kind of breaks from that.

1:13.6

And I don't know, it's kind of compelling. And, you know, that Simone Biles and I are of the same

1:21.6

species, that's funny to me. That kind of like makes me like fills me with delight you know and um so

1:34.9

i go to ESPN like numerous times a day to read stories or watch highlights and uh sometimes when I get like I'm working or I'm

1:47.9

supposed to be working I'm sort of like creating a Dharma talk sometimes I get stuck I meditate

1:55.3

other times when I get stuck, I go to ESPN.

2:08.3

And mostly basketball, but other things.

2:15.0

Anyway, so Scotty Schaeffler has been kind of like the most dominant golfer of the recent years.

2:23.1

And sometimes he's so much better than the rest of the players that he's sort of considered like a generational talent and compared to the legends.

2:28.0

And so yesterday morning, I checked sports and I saw the headline.

2:37.4

The headline was Scotty Sheffler's take on success in golf, quote, what's the point?

2:52.4

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