
Ep. 127 – Concepts & Realities
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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The Importance of Responsibility in Action
The Buddha talked of three roots of suffering, greed, hatred, delusion. Those are the conditioning forces that bring back pain. And there are wholesome roots which bring back happiness. When you realize that, then it's like this total responsibility because it's not dependent on anyone or any other being. The whole process is unfolding according to certain laws and here's where the responsibility is not outside. If we're not mindful, we don't know what we're doing. And we're just playing out of the habit patterns. We're just building up common.
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