Joseph Goldstein explores the nature of the mind, hindrances, doubt, and aversions. He emphasizes letting go into non-clinging, noticing seductive energies, and transforming attitudes towards difficulties. The podcast delves into acceptance, wisdom, and cultivating mindfulness amidst challenges.
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Awakening Is Recognition Not Acquisition
Sudden awakening is recognizing the mind's already-present open, empty, aware nature rather than acquiring something new.
True practice becomes non-clinging and resting in awareness, not striving to get or become anything.
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One Recognition Changes How You Cultivate
A momentary recognition of mind's nature doesn't equal full enlightenment because deep habits persist.
That recognition transforms how you continue practice, making cultivation gentler and wiser.
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Practice: Let The Mind Not Be Moved
Use the Bodhisattva image: in the face of arising visions, let the mind not be moved and return to awareness.
Notice what seduces your attention and practice staying in the flow of experience and noticing.
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Explaining the ways our minds can be seduced, Joseph Goldstein teaches us how to let go into non-clinging.
This 2007 talk was originally published on Dharmaseed.
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In this episode, Joseph Goldstein teaches listeners about:
Letting go into the wisdom mind of non-clinging
Awakening to the nature of the mind
Working with the hindrances of mind
Noticing how the mind can be seduced
Skeptical doubt and being frozen in indecision
The ways that doubt can masquerade itself as wisdom
Telling ourselves that it is okay not to know
Resting in experience rather than being caught in thought loops
Investigating our aversions and their hold on the mind
Seeing everything with perfect wisdom
Transforming our attitudes about our aversions
Being inclusive to our difficult experiences
“Struggle is a great feedback because it signifies non-acceptance of something. Because if we were accepting, we wouldn’t be struggling. Whenever we’re in that sense of striving, of struggle, of tension, take that as a feedback, not as a problem. That’s telling us something. That’s saying something is going on in the body, in the mind, in the emotions, in the thoughts, in our external experience, something is going on that we’re not open to, that we’re trying to exclude, and that’s why we’re struggling.” – Joseph Goldstein
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein 