Shepherding us towards the possibility of ending the suffering of dukkha, Joseph Goldstein offers practical guidance on how to weaken the bonds of compulsive craving and attachment by understanding their root cause.

The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the thirty-eighth part of an in-depth 46-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 week on Insight Hour, Joseph explores:

The noble truth of the cessation of dukkha
Letting go of everything despite our conditioned habits to cling
Growing and refining our understanding of the three characteristics
Taking in the impermanence of all things beyond the conceptual level
Weakening the force of compulsive craving and desire
Reaching a place of equanimity through mindfulness of the rapidity of change
Finding satisfaction in neutrality versus pleasant feelings
The destruction of lust, hatred, and delusion
Nirvana as an unconditioned awareness
Having a consciousness which is unsupported, unconstructed, not manifest
The Buddha’s own description of his process of awakening
The arising force of latent defilements throughout the day
Deconstructing the sense of self until we reach a pure mind
The practice of looking for the mind and finding that there is nothing to find

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

“In the strengthening of mindfulness and concentration, we do come to experience the flow of change very, very rapidly. This is one of the meditative insights that opens to us. When we first begin to experience the rapid changing of everything that’s arising, it’s exhilarating…but as we continue to watch the rapidity of change, we then go through phases of fear and despair because we’re seeing the constant disillusion of things.” – Joseph Goldstein

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#45: Alexa von Hirschberg, senior commissioning editor, Bloomsbury