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Ep. 35 - The Eightfold Path: Right Thought and Renunciation

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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The Power of No, It's Not Skilful

In his book, Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell described the Bodhisattva's journey to Buddhahood as representing different stages of the path. In one line he describes just in one line the unshakable steadfastness of the bodhisattva as he sat under the tree. And I just find that tremendously inspiring as I relate it to my own practice. So this is the first part on the path, the eightfold path, the step of right thought. The first part is right thought of renunciation.

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