
Ep. 124 - Essential Buddhism Part 2: Mount Analogue and The Eightfold Path
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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Sonata Emptiness - The First Facto on the Path of Right Understanding
The higher wisdom aspect of right understanding is the knowledge of the three characteristics of existence, impermanenc, unsatisfactoriness, non self. We begin to develop insight into these three characteristics through more and more meditation practice. Existence is a flow of impersonal phenomena, empty phenomena, rolling on understanding. Inherently, these conditioned phenomena are unsatisfactory because they are not lasting. There is no possibility of a lasting happiness in them, because they are vanishing as soon as they arise. And they are all empty of self,. Sonata emptiness, on one important level. The only way to harmonize with that flow, with that shifting slope, is to let go completely, not to try
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