Short Talk: We don't do freedom
6/11/202617 min
This talk was given by Matthew Brensilver on 2026.06.10 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California. Please visit our website at audiodharma.org.
Matthew Brensilver· Guest0:08
Okay. Well, those were strange instructions, but an attempt to be responsive to, uh, the votes of the room. But, uh, make of them what you will. Um, so we, um, we think about the dharma as freedom and, uh, fair enough. Teach one thing, uh, suffering and the end of suffering. Fair enough, right? The, from the Majjhima, uh, "The purpose of the holy life does not consist in acquiring benefits, honor or fame, nor in gaining virtue, states of concentration nor insight, the eye of knowledge, the unshakable deliverance of heart, the sure heart's release. This and this alone is the object of the holy life, its essence, its true goal." And by