Gil: Q&A

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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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. Thank you. Hello, yeah. Hello.
0:57.4	Yeah.
0:58.2	Okay.
0:58.6	Thank you.
0:59.9	So my question is, you know, knowing that nothing is permanent, how can we be fully engaged?
1:05.9	What do you mean by nothing is permanent?
1:15.8	That you mean that everything will end someday?
1:19.0	Yeah.
1:32.3	That's not a secret.
1:39.3	That's been going on for a long time and people are living their lives anyway. I mean we can be doing the minimum thing and live.
1:43.3	Right? I mean we can just be doing the minimum thing and live. Right?
1:45.0	I mean, we can just get by doing some things, but not do.
1:50.0	Yeah.
1:51.0	It's probably a little bit unfortunate that the Pali word Anitja has been translated as impermanent,
1:59.0	because it implies that means means what you're saying that
2:02.2	everything ends. Sooner or later, everything ends. It's kind of, but that's a rather conceptual
2:08.6	idea. It might be somewhat true, but it's like some things are in the future and it puts us into the world of thinking, thoughts, ideas,
2:20.3	what should happen, what he should do, when will I do it,
2:23.8	will I be successful, will I fail?
2:27.8	And the Pali word Anitja literally means not constant, not continuous.
2:39.0	And so the difference is that daytime is not continuous, not constant.
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