Happy Hour: Befriending Our Mind

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🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2023.05.10 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Video of this talk is available at: https://youtube.com/live/9WYWFMOx5Do. ******* 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.
0:06.0	Please visit our website at audioderma.org.
0:11.0	Dharma, here we go.
0:14.0	Great.
0:15.0	So, hi everyone.
0:17.0	Hello and welcome back, Pierre.
0:20.0	Lovely to see you.
0:22.0	To be with you in this moment in time, whatever your time zone might be.
0:28.0	So, for the theme for today, I'd like to invite us to explore.
0:33.0	Befriending our mind.
0:35.0	Befriending our mind.
0:38.0	And when I say our mind, it's mind-heart.
0:46.0	It's, you know, befriending ourselves, befriending our mind, befriending our mind-heart.
0:53.0	It's tough and poly.
0:55.0	We often translate it just to mind, but it's really mind-heart.
0:59.0	How to befriend ourselves.
1:01.0	This practice of befriending ourselves.
1:04.0	And in some ways, we can think of this practice as training ourselves in befriending.
1:16.0	In befriending our minds, befriending ourselves, befriending others.
1:20.0	It's a practice of befriending.
1:22.0	And especially when we bring the practice of insight or vipassana, which is mindfulness,
1:30.0	is a way of seeing, seeing our thoughts, seeing what's arising in our mind, in our body, in our heart.
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