Ep. 13 - Equanimity: The Gateway to Enlightenment
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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The Alteration of Pleasure and Pain
For almost all of us, there is this deeply habituated conditioning. It almost seems hardwired that we want to have and hold on to what's pleasant. And we want to avoid or push away what's unpleasant. As long as this conditioning is prevalent in our lives, we're continually buffeted in our reactions. With increasing clarity and wisdom and mindfulness, we see that these changes of pleasant and pain, of happiness and sadness, are not a mistake but the nature of condition-changing phenomena.
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