State of the world

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🗓️ 13 August 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2023.08.13 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Video of this talk is available at: https://youtube.com/live/1ZSLXukem5Y. ******* 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 audiodrama.org.
0:11.0	Good morning, everyone.
0:16.0	And can you hear all the right? All you miss good?
0:20.0	Hello, everyone online who is watching. Welcome as well.
0:26.0	And so, I want to bring up a fascinating topic, for me at least, but a challenging topic for some of you.
0:50.0	In fact, some of you might come up afterwards to me at Gill.
0:56.0	You don't understand. Let me tell you how it really is.
1:02.0	You're not taking something into account.
1:07.0	So I do this talk with great risk.
1:13.0	So the topic is the state of the world.
1:18.0	Oh, God.
1:22.0	That was a perfect comment given the state of the world.
1:32.0	And it just that phrase, it lists a lot of responses to people.
1:43.0	Some people have despair around the state of the world.
1:47.0	Some people have a lot of anxiety about the state of the world.
1:51.0	Some people have a lot of opinions about the state of the world.
1:59.0	The topic of state of the world for some people elicits a lot of predictions, a lot of imagination,
2:07.0	where we don't see the difference between predictions and actuality.
2:14.0	Don't see the difference between predictions and what has to and will happen.
2:19.0	And even to say that is challenging because of how strong the views are about this is actually what's going to happen.
2:28.0	And the topic of the state of the world is something I've been reflecting on the last few days
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