Dharmette: When Life Does Not Obey Us (3/5): Thoughts Think Themselves

About this episode

Diana Clark discusses the nature of thoughts and how they operate independently of our control.

This talk was given by Diana Clark on 2026.06.10 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Video of this talk is available at: https://www.youtube.com/live/8yecMJcLBzk?si=zW-SpDM__P_WhVDf&t=1854. ******* 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

People in this episode

Host: Diana Clark

Topics covered

• dharma
• mindfulness
• thoughts
• spirituality
• Buddhism
• insight meditation

Keywords

• dharma talk
• mindfulness
• thoughts
• Buddhism
• spirituality
• insight meditation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Insight Meditation Center, AudioDharma, Creative Commons

Places: Redwood City, CA

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