The Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Insight Hour. This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.

Join Joseph as he shares his deep practical wisdom. The question I'd like to consider this evening is what we actually learn from being mindful.

What wisdom emerges from the practice of being aware that has the power to liberate our minds, to liberate our hearts,

from all the causes of suffering.

So the Buddha gave very explicit and specific instructions in this regard.

It's really a very clear statement.

He said,

Bicus, and again a reminder, Bicus, in its most general sense means all of us who are walking on the path.

Bicus, whatever is not of us who are walking on the path.

Because whatever is not yours abandon it.

When you have abandoned it, that will lead to your welfare and happiness.

Suppose Bickers people were to carry off the grass, the sticks, the branches,

and foliage in this grove of trees or to burn them or to do with them as they wish.

Would you think people are carrying us off or burning us or doing with us as they wish?

And the Bickers replied no venerable sir because that is neither our self, know what belongs to our

self. So too Bicus form these physical elements. Form is not yours, feeling is not yours,

perception is not yours, volitional formations are not yours. Consciousness is not yours.

Abandon them. When you have abandoned what is not yours, that will lead to your welfare and

happiness.

So it's very clear. The question is how do we actually accomplish this? You know,

we can understand the teaching but how do we live it how do we accomplish it in our lives

our attachment to and our identification with the aggregates, which is the form and

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