Ep. 13 - Equanimity: The Gateway to Enlightenment
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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The Potential for Equianimity in the Face of Loss
Joseph has an apartment in Boulder. All these friends from India kind of showed up a mere apartment and moved in. And it wasn't just one person, you know, two people. There must have been five or six people,. You know, just came back out on the floor. But at a certain point in the midst of seeing and experiencing my own distress, I realized that the problem was that I thought of it as my apartment. Then we're in a state of mental turmoil, gain and loss. The example which I use often in these talks is the story of the Zen poet and hermit in Montgomery, O'con who used to live up in the mountains of Japan with almost
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