Mindfulness of Speech Q&A Session

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🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2025.05.25 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Video of this talk is available at: https://youtube.com/live/O40qd9WXCKg. ******* 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.
0:11.1	...about this topic.
0:13.0	Yes, so if you could use the mic.
0:17.1	Just that the people online can't hear.
0:27.4	I have a question.
0:34.0	We were talking about feeling the need to feel the silence and conversations because I feel the need to do that like I'm doing right now.
0:41.9	But so I feel like I can be...
0:44.5	Oh, yeah, yeah.
0:45.4	I can be mindful, but it like those awkward silences and pauses and conversations are
0:51.9	where I have trouble, like taking a step back.
0:54.8	Yeah.
0:55.5	Yeah.
0:56.1	Yeah.
0:57.0	Yeah.
0:57.4	Yeah.
0:57.5	So some people are not comfortable.
1:00.4	A lot of people are not comfortable with silences.
1:03.8	And so you might have to contextualize it for people.
1:07.2	You say, you know, we've been talking for a while now and I need to get my bearings.
1:12.8	I wonder, can we be quiet a little bit? Or can I excuse myself for a moment? Or the really
1:19.4	sly thing to do is to say, excuse me, I need to go to the bathroom. And no one's going to ask you what you're doing there.
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