Ep. 243 – Illuminating Our Lives with Right View, Satipatthana Sutta Series Pt. 40
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Apr 18, 2025
Exploration of Right View reveals its power in illuminating our lives by fostering openness to wisdom. Joseph Goldstein discusses avoiding blind beliefs and the role of direct experience in understanding truth. The conversation addresses the harmful effects of wrong views, particularly in relation to self-obsession. Listeners are encouraged to embrace the impermanent nature of existence through the lens of the five aggregates, promoting a deeper mindfulness practice. It’s a reflective journey towards understanding suffering and the potential for awakening.
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Open Mindedness in Right View
Right view includes openness to experiences beyond our current understanding, without blind belief or disbelief.
Recognizing that wise beings have realized the truth through direct experience keeps us open to unexpected sources of wisdom.
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Rebirth Eases Life's Pressure
Embracing the possibility of rebirth can reduce urgency and pressure in life.
This view helps us prioritize what truly matters without feeling we're missing out.
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Wisdom Illuminates Right View
Wisdom (panya) acts like a light illuminating what arises to foster clear understanding.
Right view as wisdom sets both the path's beginning and its culmination in realization.
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Joseph Goldstein explores the importance of Right View and how it illuminates our lives through an openness to wisdom from many unexpected sources.
The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the 40th part of an in-depth 48-part weekly lecture series from Joseph Goldstein that delves into every aspect of the Satipatthana Sutta. If you are just now jumping into the Satipatthana Sutta series, listen to Insight Hour Ep. 203 to follow along and get the full experience!
This time on Insight Hour, Joseph discusses:
Not being attached to blind belief or blind disbelief
Realizing the truth through direct experience
Remaining open to wisdom from unexpected sources
The possibility of a full awakening and we can develop our wisdom over time
Recognizing that there truly are many awakened beings in the world
The aspects of Right View that may not be immediately apparent
Considering what wisdom can discover when it illuminates our experience
Promoting the good of living beings through right view
How Right View is both the beginning and the ending
Wrong view as the most blame-worthy of all things, according to the Buddha
How Wrong View makes us obsess over the self (gratifying it, defending it, etc.)
The great power of delusion in our minds
Refining our awareness of the impermanent changing nature of the 5 aggregates (everything we experience)
This episode was originally published on Dharmaseed
Grab a copy of the book Joseph references throughout this series, Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization, HERE
"We could see Right View as both the beginning and end of the path. We start with Right View—it sets the direction for us. Our practice is leading us in the right direction and then the whole path culminates in these understandings." – Joseph Goldstein
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