Bonus Episode: Joseph's Meditative Story with Rohan Gunatillake

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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Joseph Goldstein, Mindfulness, Vipassana, Buddhism, Insightmeditation, Meditation, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Goldstein joins Rohan Gunatillake to share the meditative story of how he first learned to integrate his spirituality into everyday life.

This episode was originally aired on Meditative Story, a podcast that combines the emotional pull of first-person storytelling with the immediate, science-backed benefits of mindfulness practice – all surrounded by breathtaking and cinematic music. You can find Meditative Story on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more!

Joseph Goldstein shares a personal story about:

One of the most transformative moments in Joseph’s life
The beginning of Joseph’s enlightenment journey
Integrating the spiritual gifts Joseph learned from the East into his everyday life in the West
Learning to embrace the uncomfortable feeling of not-knowing
How Joseph first connected with Ram Dass
Joseph’s first job teaching a meditation class
Saying yes and allowing opportunities to present themselves
A guided mindfulness practice

“It’s as if my life exists as two separate strands. One is the strand of my practice, which feels clear and stable. The other is how that practice will manifest and how I can ever hope to apply it to the world. Spiritually, I am flying high. But I have no idea where to land.” – Joseph Goldstein

About Joseph Goldstein:

Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and loving-kindness meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. He is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he is one of the organization’s guiding teachers. In 1989, together with several other teachers and students of insight meditation, he helped establish the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.

About Rohan Gunatillake:

Rohan Gunatillake is a writer, entrepreneur, and host of the podcast Meditative Story. By artfully crafting meditations to compliment each guest’s story, Rohan blends mindfulness with narrative to create a unique listening experience, encouraging listeners to use someone else’s transformative moment as the basis for their own. He’s also the founder of the best-selling app Buddhify, and author of Modern Mindfulness: How to Be More Relaxed, Focused, and Kind While Living in a Fast, Digital, Always-On World.

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0:00.0	It's as if my life exists as two separate strands.
0:05.0	One is the strand of my practice, which feels clear and stable.
0:10.0	The other is the strand of how that practice will manifest, how I can ever hope to apply it to the world.
0:19.0	Spiritually, I'm flying high, but I have no idea where to land. Sitting at the front of this room, I feel like an orchestra conductor.
0:47.0	If people are dozing off, I'll riff something humorous.
0:52.0	If people need to quiet down. I'll rift something humorous.
0:52.6	People need to quiet down.
0:55.5	We settle into silence.
0:58.7	I'm conducting the energy of the room.
1:04.0	This is what I'm supposed to be doing. By the time he was 30, Joseph Goldstein felt confident that his mindfulness practice would be critically
1:26.3	important to the rest of his life. But when he This week Joseph tells us how he endeavored to keep himself open to all possibilities
1:47.4	while learning to be okay with that uncomfortable feeling of not knowing.
1:55.6	In this series we combine immersive first-person stories,
2:00.2	breathtaking music, and mindfulness prompts so that we may see our lives reflected back to us in other people's stories.
2:09.0	And that can lead to improvements in our own inner lives.
2:18.8	From wait what, this is meditative story.
2:45.0	I'm Raham and I'll be your guide. The body breathing.
2:48.0	breathing.
2:50.0	Your senses open, your senses open, your mind open, meeting the world. And the Oh, You're going to do. It's a remarkable practice of turning inward.
3:45.0	With enough time, we can start to observe the mind in a very systematic way. My words reverberate out into the open air, passed our circle
3:59.8	of chairs on the outdoor patio towards the modest wooden bungalows lining the field and the
4:07.8	gently swaying pine trees beyond.
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