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Ep. 133 – The Power of Restraint

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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Meditation and the Comic Result of Past Actions

There's another way we experience the comic result and also it comes often in intensive meditation practice when as we go on through the day of sitting and walking sometimes we experience very directly a specific, a specific comic result of a past action. Nupandita was here told a number of stories one of which particularly illustrates this point. He said that there came to the center in Rangoon in Burma a man who previously had been a guerrilla fighter in the mountains, the jungles of Burma and had engaged in tremendously violent acts. His wife managed to extricate him from that particular entanglement through a long series of events he ended up at the meditation center. It’s almost

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