Ep. 201 – A Guided Practice on Working with Thought and Emotions
May 22, 2024
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Meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein leads a practice on mindfulness, noting mental and physical sensations. He discusses embracing impermanence, naming emotions, and transitioning from conceptual to direct experience. Focus on awareness over fixation on thoughts and the power of silence in deepening introspection.
Practicing full body awareness aids in noticing breath and sensations, facilitating a deeper understanding of impermanence.
Utilizing mental noting helps anchor awareness, preventing seductive thoughts, and cultivating a profound sense of impermanence.
Deep dives
The Inner Academy: Ancient Wisdom in Modern Life
The Inner Academy offers over 200 hours of teachings, meditations, and practices from renowned wisdom teachers like Ramdas, Christendoss, and Joseph Goldstein. It aims to help individuals find balance and presence in their daily lives by blending ancient wisdom with contemporary challenges. Through annual or monthly memberships, individuals gain access to a rich resource of courses, retreat replays, and a supportive virtual community.
Teaching Meditation and Dharma: A Path to Wellness
David Nickter, an acclaimed author and Buddhist teacher, offers free online discussions and training programs on teaching meditation and Dharma. By learning to teach meditation, individuals can enhance their mental and emotional well-being, reduce stress, improve focus, and deepen their own practice. The program provides certification to lead group sessions and work with individual students, emphasizing the rewards of helping others while enriching personal practice.
Mindfulness Practice: Embracing Impermanence and Inner Peace
Practicing mindfulness involves acknowledging the impermanence of thoughts and sensations, treating them as transient aspects of experience. By using mental noting, individuals can anchor themselves in awareness, preventing seductive thoughts from leading them astray. Moreover, recognizing the changing nature of sensations and emotions cultivates a deeper understanding of impermanence and emotional states. This awareness enhances one's journey towards enlightenment, marked by insights into the unconditioned and the experiencing of peace as a progressive spectrum of internal states.
Highlighting the impermanence of experience, Joseph Goldstein leads a practice in noticing mental and physical sensations.
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This time on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein offers a guided practice on:
Working with thought and emotion
Full body awareness without effort or struggling
Noticing the breath and other sensations
Being aware of thoughts just as they are arising
Opening up to the fullness of experience
The power of naming emotions
Sensing the impermanent nature of all things
Moving from the conceptual into direct experience
The seduction of our thoughts
This 2018 recording from an Insight Meditation Retreat was originally published by Dharmaseed
“We don’t have to do anything to make things change. The very nature of whatever is arising, whether it’s in the body or the mind, the very nature is that whatever arises will also pass away.” – Joseph Goldstein