Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein Ep. 256 – The Experience of Consciousness: Question About Cultivating Awareness & Focus On the Buddhist Path
Dec 11, 2025
Explore the journey from spiritual craving to the essence of consciousness. Discover how to integrate mindfulness into everyday life and cultivate awareness of awareness itself. Learn to recognize the inevitability of suffering and how to use it as a tool for growth. Joseph shares strategies for working with anger and shifting negative emotions toward compassion. Engaging practices like mindful seeing illuminate the path to deeper concentration and insight, inviting you to playfully experiment with awareness in every moment.
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Make Daily Life The Practice
- Bring your daily life into your meditation practice rather than treating practice as separate from life.
- Use moments in everyday situations to settle, open, and be mindful so practice supports real-world behavior.
Note The Act Of Seeing
- Practice mindfulness of seeing by noting 'seeing' at moments of visual contact to reduce reactive judgments.
- Drop into noting seeing in busy social settings to access open, non-reactive spaciousness.
Dining Hall Seeing Experiment
- Joseph noticed habitual judgments arise entering a dining room and began noting 'seeing' each visual contact.
- This simple practice removed about 95% of his judgments and created an open, non-reactive experience.