Ep. 228 – Suffering And The Senses, Satipatthana Sutta Series Pt. 25

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Dec 19, 2024

Joseph Goldstein explores the intricate relationship between suffering, awareness, and mindfulness. He delves into the Satipatthana Sutta, revealing how our senses can create mental fetters that limit clarity. By examining desire and aversion as automatic responses, he highlights the importance of wise attention in breaking the cycle of craving. Additionally, he emphasizes the link between perception and mental liberation, encouraging listeners to reflect on their experiences and the interconnectedness of their thoughts and feelings for deeper awareness.

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ADVICE

Mindfulness of Sense Spheres

Contemplate experiences through six internal and external sense spheres (eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind).
Observe the arising fetters (defilements) dependent on these sense spheres and their objects.

INSIGHT

Dependent Origination

Dependent origination explains how suffering arises through a chain reaction.
This chain starts with senses, contact, feeling, then craving, clinging, and leads to suffering.

ADVICE

Practicing Mindfulness

Start by acknowledging the given sense spheres and their contact with objects.
Observe the feeling tone (pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral) that arises from this contact.

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Cutting the chain of dependent origination, Joseph Goldstein teaches wise attention and freedom from defilement as the antidote to suffering.

The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the twenty-fifth 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!

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This time on Insight Hour, Joseph continues exploring:

The timelessness of the dhamma
How fetters of the mind arise and how to remove them
Preventing the future arising of mental fetters
The coming together of sense base, object, and consciousness
Desire as the automatic response to pleasant feelings
Aversion as our conditioned response to aversion
Neutrality and how it can lead to delusion
The necessity of wise attention to avoid suffering
Cutting the chain of dependent origination
Being mindful of what is actually arising moment to moment
Reinforcing our understanding of the impermanence of desire
Taking responsibility for our own minds

Grab a copy of the book Joseph references throughout this series, Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization, HERE

This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed

“Coming to the end of suffering means that we learn how to work with and understand and free ourselves from the force of the fetters in the mind. What’s amazing about this teaching is that it’s ultimately, completely empowering because it’s all up to us. Our suffering is not due to other people. We can take responsibility for our own minds.”– Joseph Goldstein

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