A Simple Practice To Help You Let Go

Practicing Human

Cory Muscara

Self Improvement, Health & Fitness, Meditation, Happiness, Mindfulness, Education, Personal Development, Wellness, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Presence, Positive Psychology, Self-improvement, Buddhism

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss what Joseph Goldstein calls the "In Order To..." mind, and how it can negatively impact your practice of presence and mindfulness.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting
0:05.2	a little better at life.
0:07.0	I'm your host, Cory Muscara, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about the in-order
0:12.5	two mind.
0:14.7	More to come on that in a moment, first let's settle in together with the sound of the
0:18.8	bells.
0:22.3	Okay, so Joseph Goldstein is one of the great meditation teachers here in the United
0:47.2	States.
0:48.6	He spent a lot of time in his 20s, I think now he's in his 70s, practicing and studying
0:56.0	with many different teachers in India and Burma around the world, and he's widely credited
1:05.1	with a lot of the mainstream meditation movement here in the West.
1:11.5	One of the teachings I learned about of his early on in my practice that really resonated
1:18.4	with where I was in my practice was what he called, noticing the in-order to mind, so what
1:28.2	is this?
1:29.2	Well, he was talking about it in the context of a meditation practice, and the way he was
1:36.1	referring to it is the mind that is doing something in the meditation in order to get
1:44.1	some sort of results.
1:46.4	And this could be looked at the meditation more globally, like I'm sitting down here to
1:51.4	meditate in order to get rid of this stress, or I'm relating to this thought with kind
1:59.1	of awareness in order to get rid of it, or I'm relating to this pain that I'm experiencing
2:07.3	in my body in order to not have to feel it as intensely anymore.
2:14.1	And it's that in order to mind that can often get in a way of the practice actually working
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