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Guided Meditation: Letting go of limitation

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

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This talk was given by Matthew Brensilver on 2025.07.23 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Video of this talk is available at: https://youtube.com/live/WQGw_y9beCw. ******* 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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The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

0:05.8

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0:11.7

It's grounding, stabilizing. Thank you. Just finding something in your field of experience that feels conducive to settling. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The What would it mean to put down ideas of limitation. Where I end, the world begins, my problems.

3:33.3

What my heart is capable of just not pretending to be limitless, but putting down ideas, limitation. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And clinging suffering is inherently self-absorbing.

5:32.6

And clinging suffering is inherently self-absorbing.

5:44.3

Imposes some very firm limits on our mind. Thank you. Thank you. Sometimes just

6:34.4

it's a gentle effort to put down notions of limitation

6:40.4

open us up to space or vastness. The mind made vast. Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. Thank you. Can we feel safe enough that we don't have to reiterate ourselves so frequently. We can melt into our breath, our body. Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. When there's truly no preference between the expansive and contractive flavors of our mind.

15:45.9

There tends to be more space, stability.

15:55.0

You don't have to manufacture anything.

16:21.6

Mother Nature sniffs out all our secret agendas. Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. In many moments, this realm of existence,

21:33.3

this realm of existence, samsara, is enchanting. And sometimes you just get bored of it.

21:57.0

Not aversive, not hating, not nihilistic, just bored. becomes more natural to lay some of our burdens down. You know, You know, Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. The The

26:13.6

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26:30.3

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