
Ep. 98 – Volition and Consciousness
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
The Mind's Purification of View
The mind settles practicing either of these ways or some combination as the mind settles. This continued mindfulness and investigation lead us to different insights, different insight experiences about the nature of consciousness. One of the insights is called purification of view. Each moment as a paired progression of knowing an object. It's not that there's a I or a self lurking behind what we call I or self in each moment. There's no one of a sight, no sound, no smell, no taste, no sensations. And we see this, we see that there is no one behind this paired progression to whom it is happening.
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