
Ep. 113 – What Mindfulness Is (& Isn't)
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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Mindfulness as a Component of the Eightfold Noble Path
The filters through which we are observing experience, they are often unconscious and can be so sneaky. We really storp paying attention a what does greed feel like? What's the efect of it in our minds? So i would check this out. Youan just explore this for yourselves. The most prevalent afflictive emotion, that's the jargon for no unwholesome mind states, was the mind state of fear. There were times in my practice where i was afraid to go from sitting to standing. Yes, that's completely rational but it was just kind of this primal energy of fear that was coming up and very strong. I knew it was fear, fear, fear.
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