Ep. 150 – Nature of Mind
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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Dharma of Liberation - Mind, Consciousness
The fundamental element or quality of what we call mind, consciousness is the knowing faculty. Knowing here does not mean acquired knowledge. It's immediate, direct knowing of an arising experience. A sound appears and we know the sound. We know the hearing. This is the nature of consciousness. It knows the object. So we can begin to see the one underlying Dharma of liberation in all of the different traditionscan really come to a common understanding.
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