Poetry of Practice II (3 of 5): Patterns

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🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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This talk was given by Diana Clark on 2023.10.18 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Poem: "Autobiography in Five Short Chapters" by Portia Nelson ******* 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.
0:05.5	Please visit our website at audioderma.org.
0:12.0	Okay, so here we are.
0:17.0	I'm talking about yet another poem that we explored during the guided meditation and I'll read it again here.
0:29.0	Maybe I'll just say that the title of the poem is, I don't biography in five short chapters by Portia Nelson.
0:43.0	I think maybe if I had to set the title at the beginning, maybe there'd be a little bit different understanding of the poem, but if I said that at the beginning of the guided meditation, but here we are.
0:56.0	Chapter 1. I walked down the street. There's a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I'm lost. I'm helpless. It isn't my fault. It takes me forever to find a way out.
1:15.0	Chapter 2. I walked down the same street. There's a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don't see it.
1:24.0	I can't fall in again. I can't believe I'm in the same place, but it isn't my fault. It still takes a long time to get out.
1:35.0	Chapter 3. I walked down the same street. There's a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it is there. I still fall in. It's a habit.
1:47.0	The eyes are open. I know where I am. It is my fault. I get out immediately. I walked down the same street. There's a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it.
2:05.0	Chapter 5. I walked down another street. I find myself smiling when I'm saying this partly because this poem is so simple. It's not complicated.
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4:52.0	I go for refuge in the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, but this idea I go for refuge is sometimes
5:00.2	good-tommy can be, to say it as like I walk towards.
5:06.4	So there's a way in which we can, the sense of movement is such an integral part of our
5:11.9	life, and maybe there's a way in which we can influence where we're walking, the direction
5:20.5	we're going.
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