Ep. 14 - Working with Fear
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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Meditation - The Skilful Use of Both Strategies
Fear doesn't only arise as we, you know, come up against painful or unpleasant sensations. Fear can arise with certain memories, you knowt thoughts or images. I have had on retreat some of the worst dreams of my life. Maybe you are all having nice, pleasant dreams all the time, but astoundingly perverse. And it's kind of unbelievable what the mind can produce in dreams. So meditation is this path of opening, but at different times, and this is where we really need to have a certain kind of maturity in our practice.
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