Ep. 130 – Essential Buddhism Part 5: The Truth of Suffering
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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Joseph Goldstein: The end of the path is freedom. It's open to all of us. All we have to do is begin the journey, to be facing towards the light. As I understand the practice of Zazen, it leads very much to a moment-to-moment awareness. After a certain minimal level of one-pointiness, the mind has the ability to sit back and just observe the flow. And I think that's what's meant in Zen. There are a lot of Zen stories about the development of moment-towards-moment Zen. You can approach the development of wisdom by developing samadhi first and then applying it to the development of insight
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