Ep. 21 - Karma
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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The Mind Is the Forerunner of All Things
The possibility for happiness rests on one basic understanding, and that is that the unfolding of our lives begins in our minds. The most fundamental aspect of mind is consciousness; it arises together with an assortment of mental factors or mental qualities. It's these mental factors which condition and re condition all the patterns of our lives. Factors like love and fear and anger and joy are not self but impersonal factors of mind. But each one functions in their own way, and each one is conditioning our mind in a particular way.
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