Guided Meditation: No Comment

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🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2024.12.05 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Video of this talk is available at: https://youtube.com/live/mln8us3IT9A?feature=share. ******* 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.
0:12.1	And I welcome you again to this morning of meditation.
0:19.3	And as I started to say that we had, some of the emphasis the last couple of days
0:25.9	has been on the wise use of know as a support for meditation. And today I'd like to suggest
0:34.9	that the little phrase that you can use in meditation,
0:39.7	either say it or just keep remembering it as you go along.
0:43.3	Maybe at every exhale you can, or beginning of the inhale somehow,
0:48.5	just have some reminder to say this and see what effect it has on you.
0:54.7	And this is the two words,
0:58.4	no comment.
1:00.8	Whatever is happening to you.
1:03.8	No comment.
1:06.0	Let it be.
1:08.9	And let it be alone and don't get involved with it, don't get involved with it, don't be for or against it,
1:19.8	don't accept it, don't reject it, and don't participate in it, no comment, just leave it alone. So you might have the most wonderful thought ever, and it's tempting to keep thinking about it. No comment. You might have an awful thought, and you might be horrified and want to kind of get involved with how terrible it is to have those kinds of thinking.
1:44.4	And rather, in meditation, no comment.
1:48.9	The meditation's going really, really well.
1:51.5	No comment.
1:53.4	It's going really badly, if that is possible.
1:59.0	No comment.
2:00.3	Just stay present, stay with what's happening. No need to comment on it.
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