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Ep. 96 – The Five Aggregates of Clinging

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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The Illusion of Solidity in Meditation

When we see things from a distance, we're not perceiving the composite nature of the phenomena. And it all comes about through an increasingly refined attention. This is precisely what is happening in our meditation practice. We are seeing the rising and passing way of things many more times a moment than usual. So we see impermanence in that way. And we begin to look very closely at experience so we see its composite nature. That's how we break through the illusion of solidity.

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