Ep. 127 – Concepts & Realities
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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The Importance of Mindfulness
If what we are is this collection of physical elements, which are constantly changing, in different mental factors, who's being mindful. Anger, hatred, annoyance, irritation, not I, not self, not mine, it's an impersonal factor. Delusion is like fog in the mind, and delusion arises, can't see anything. Generosity is a mental factor, it has the nature, the nature of giving, of opening. Love is a mentalFactor, it's a quality of mind arising in a particular moment of consciousness. Wisdom is a mentalfactor, if wisdom is there, wisdom has the function to illuminate. The power of mindfulness as a factor is that it's never associated
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