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Guided Meditation: Much Becomes Incidental

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

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🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This talk was given by Matthew Brensilver on 2025.04.02 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Video of this talk is available at: https://www.youtube.com/live/NNixfKR6sgo. ******* 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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0:11.9

Just take your cues from the silence. Thanks. sense of actually attuning to silence, even if there's noise elsewhere. We don't just infer the silence by the absence of sound we listen to the silence. Thank you. And for a little while, and for a little while, pleasantness and unpleasantness, our preferences become incidental.

2:28.3

Incidental. incidental for a little while a little while.

2:50.0

The blizzard of details that constitutes your autobiography becomes incidental. For a little while,

3:22.3

what you thought you knew also for a little while.

4:06.3

What you thought you knew also becomes incidental. Thank you. Just to receive the moment is enough. Is enough. Then now. You know, You know, Thank you. No projects, no building.

6:39.3

No projects, no building.

6:49.0

You're neither the project manager nor the project. meditation practice, we stop messing with ourselves.

7:25.3

Messing with ourselves. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Surrender is the dissolution of

8:34.0

of volitional energies. Thank you. To the extent you build anything, let it be love.

9:38.6

Otherwise just receive space, receiving space. Thank you. You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, Thank you. Thank you. Each moment, a kind of new opportunity to let go. Thank you. Thank you. Our lives, so-called lives, our so-called lives, our worries and hopes and it's kind of gonna take care of itself.

19:13.0

We'll win some and lose some.

19:17.0

But for now, for these minutes, we're practicing surrendering control of not

19:46.6

medicating this thought and that feeling. And when we emerge our life, we'll be waiting for us.

20:29.3

The same.

20:33.6

Just a tiny bit different. You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, The

27:37.0

The The

27:53.6

The You know,

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