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Ep. 150 – Nature of Mind

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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The Nature of Mind, the Nature of Awareness Is Not So Much Spaciousness as Groundlessness

At one retreat, somebody was talking about their rather sort of deep meditative experience to a Tibetan teacher. He said that the nature of awareness is not so much spaciousness as groundlessness. We don't want to create a state no matter how open and spacious it is because that's just another condition arising. In the mind of no clinging, we experience the innate wakefulness with the mind. Whoever practices this has practiced all the teachings.

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