Ep. 162 – Happiness: The Progress of Insight
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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The Purpose of Feeling Pleasure
Meninger loved talking about all this and I loved hearing about it and have made my mind really light and happy. He would always end, you know, his talks about it by saying, especially in his talks to westerners, but you don't have to believe it because it's not part necessarily of the experience of the development of wisdom or enlightenment of a possible practice. And that's how he would end his little discourse. So what is it that brings sense pleasure? It's not by accident. The world, our lives are unfolding according to certain laws, certain principles. When we understand them, we can align ourselves with a sense of purpose. What is it that we want?
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