Guided Meditation: Non-referentiality

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🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This talk was given by Matthew Brensilver on 2025.05.07 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Video of this talk is available at: https://youtube.com/live/pOh3PGbgn9o. ******* 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.
0:05.0	Please visit our website at adioderma.org.
0:09.0	Okay, welcome, welcome folks.
0:15.0	I get to be with you.
0:19.0	As for a theme, meditation theme, I got one comment to make it NBA basketball related, which brings to mind a recent event.
0:36.6	This will not be the theme of the meditation, but I was watching the Warriors against the Rockets,
0:45.7	tense game, and with my nephew, who's 14.
0:52.9	And you would say I was not in a well-regulated state.
0:58.5	I was kind of like, I don't even sit when I watch it.
1:02.0	It's like I just, I'm kind of, I don't always watch.
1:05.0	I can't, I can't.
1:07.9	But I'm sort of like pacing around and kind of exaggerated grunts and fear and hope and just pirouetting back and forth from dread to relief.
1:27.6	And he wasn't doing that well himself,
1:32.5	but he is 14.
1:34.2	And at some point he says,
1:35.4	he calls me Mana,
1:36.4	because when he was a kid,
1:37.4	he couldn't say Matt or Matthew.
1:40.1	And he said,
1:41.4	Manna,
1:42.3	you're a meditation teacher.
1:46.9	Fair enough.
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