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Ep. 169 – The Heart of Wisdom

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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The Dangers of Meditation Practice

Most people experience a fair amount of discomfort and pain in the beginning of meditation practice. There are different kinds of pain and it's helpful to discriminate between them. One kind of pain is a dangerous signal. If you put your hand in fire and it starts to burn, that is a message which is telling us something. We had one friend who was sitting in a meditation hut in the woods, very arduous and earnest in his practice. He was sitting, rising, falling,. rising, falling, smelling, smelling, smells, smelling, heat, heat,Heat,Smell! The cottage was on fire. That's a signal, that's saying something. And so to begin to understand

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