Ep. 105 – Cultivating Loving Thought
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
From the infamous 1974 Naropa summer sessions, Joseph Goldstein answers audience questions on love, wisdom, practice, perspective, metta, impermanence, silence, and cultivating loving thought.
In this vintage July 5th, 1974 dharma talk from Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's Naropa University, nestled in the mountains in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, a young Joseph Goldstein shares meditation instructions for the Yogas of the Bhagavad Gita course he was invited to teach alongside Ram Dass during the Naropa grand opening summer sessions. Having first met and impressed Ram Dass with his deep practice and wisdom cultivation in Bodh Gaya in the early 1970's, this invitation and opportunity would open the door for Joseph's life path of teaching meditation and mindfulness.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Insight Hour. |
| 0:18.0 | This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery. |
| 0:25.0 | Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness. |
| 0:30.0 | If you are interested in supporting this podcast, please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. Today we're going to do something a bit different and not within the framework really of mindfulness. |
| 0:57.4 | The cultivation of loving thought |
| 1:01.1 | is a very useful factor of mind to develop for the for the practice of insight. |
| 1:08.0 | When love is highly developed in the mind, The mind gets very, very flexible, very pliable, very |
| 1:17.9 | soft and gentle and workable, and the awareness and clarity can then be very sharp, very smooth, very easy. |
| 1:28.0 | It's as if the mind has been tempered by this quality of love so that then a very penetrating |
| 1:37.1 | awareness can be applied. There is a special kind of meditation which deals specifically with the development of loving kindness, of universal love. |
| 1:51.0 | And it's a very nice thing to incorporate into one's practice. |
| 1:57.2 | To begin each meditation with five or ten minutes of developing that kind of mind. |
| 2:04.5 | It sets one up for then developing a very sharp wisdom |
| 2:10.1 | with regard to what's happening, |
| 2:11.7 | because it makes the mind very open, very receptive. |
| 2:18.4 | So what we'll do today is just to explain a little bit of how to cultivate these loving thoughts. |
| 2:25.0 | There are two different kinds of practices. |
| 2:30.0 | One is to use loving kindness as an object of a concentration meditation. |
| 2:37.8 | It's a mantra. You can do mantra and visualization |
| 2:46.2 | with loving kindness and develop very high states of somata. You can go into the genres or trances using love as the object. |
| 2:55.0 | That's, we're not primarily concerned with that, but rather to develop a general kind of loving kindness, |
| 3:00.0 | right? The kind of loving thought which just makes the mind so so gentle and soft and open. |
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