Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

Buddhist teacher Joseph Goldstein explores the importance of contemplation, awareness, and concentration in this episode. He discusses the healing process of Samadhi, developing concentration through Sila, and the path of happiness. Topics include choiceless awareness, walking meditation, internal and external contemplation, and being aware of others without judgment.

Joseph Goldstein, a key figure in mindfulness and Theravada Buddhism, delves deeply into the Satipatthana Sutta. He emphasizes mindfulness as essential for spiritual growth and personal transformation. Joseph explains how small daily mindfulness efforts can lead to profound insights. He contrasts self-judgment with reflection on right conduct and discusses the mind's peaceful nature. Additionally, he highlights the balance between faith, wisdom, and effort in practice, illustrating how mindfulness can guide practitioners on their path towards awakening.

Exploring mindfulness through the Satipatthana Sutta, focusing on meditation, craving as the cause of suffering, impermanence, and the importance of wisdom and compassion in daily practice.

Meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein discusses topics like mental noting, working with a greedy mind, dukkha and craving, deepening concentration, balancing self-knowing, dealing with painful mind-states, and the fear of impermanence and attachment.

Joseph Goldstein, a meditation teacher, discusses the subtleties of practice, strengthening concentration, karma in the natural world, facing fear at the end of life, selflessness, equanimity in relationships, and refining sensations. He also talks about the power of neutrality over pleasure, dealing with pain, and using practice to overcome boredom and restlessness.

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.

Meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein discusses the impersonal nature of thoughts, how they lead to emotions, and the importance of observing thoughts as they arise. He emphasizes the simplicity of mindfulness practice and the transformative power of recognizing the impermanent and empty nature of thoughts.

Joseph Goldstein discusses duality in mindfulness, from object-subject split to persona identification. He explores love for all experience, integration of mind-body, and the power of renunciation. Goldstein emphasizes the need to stop identifying with the self and the transformative power of mindfulness.

Meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein discusses working with fear in practice, releasing tension, opening up to Buddha nature, fear of emotional pain, insecurity, fear of being judged, and using lovingkindness as an antidote for fear.

Joseph Goldstein, a metta practice instructor and meditation teacher, delves into the many flavors of loving-kindness in this insightful podcast. Topics include using mantra for loving-kindness, metta as a tool for concentration, and different ways metta can be applied in meditation. Goldstein also discusses the unconditional quality of metta and leads a guided metta practice to cultivate well-wishing.