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    Quick Mindfulness Talk: Relating to It

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    Gil FronsdalPublished March 25, 2020 · Updated October 21, 2026 · 1 min read

    Gil Fronsdal of the Insight Meditation Center (IMC) gives this dharmette, a brief dharma talk. It looks at the two things going on in any moment, what is happening and how we relate to it.

    There’re only two things going on, there’s what’s happening & the relationship to it.

    The relationship we have to whatever that’s happening is actually a very important part of the experience for ourselves and sometimes, for others as well.

    And to be able to look at the connection we have, the attitudes assumptions desires aversions judgments, the whole middle place, the thick, the space, if the relationship is the space between me and that whatever that is, that relationship is thick.

    How am I relating to this? What relationship do I have?

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