10% Happier with Dan Harris Three Strategies for Getting Over Yourself | Joseph Goldstein
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Oct 10, 2025 
Joseph Goldstein, a senior Insight Meditation teacher and co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society, shares profound insights after his latest silent retreat. He discusses the three proliferating tendencies that fuel self-centeredness and explains the importance of understanding non-self in Buddhist practice. Joseph introduces practical meditation techniques, including using passive voice to reduce self-referential thinking and focusing on the elements to dissolve the sense of ownership. This conversation offers a masterclass in lightening the burden of self.
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Mind’s Proliferation Creates Suffering
- Papancha (proliferating tendencies) are mental processes that expand simple experience into suffering.
- Recognizing these tendencies reveals how self-centered elaboration creates most of our pain.
Not Mine, Not I, Not Myself
- The three proliferating tendencies link directly to notions of mine, I, and self.
- Seeing experience as 'not mine, not I, not myself' reframes how craving and attachment arise.
Name Sensations To Break Ownership
- Notice conceptual overlays (like “leg” or “my leg”) on raw sensations during practice.
- Let go of the ownership story to reduce craving and related suffering.
