Ep. 112 – Bare Attention
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Joseph Goldstein explores the concept of bare attention, or choiceless awareness, and how cultivating this state of mind can help us settle back, live in the present moment, and more.
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This 1983 Joseph Goldstein dharma talk on bare attention was originally published on Dharma Seed.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Insight Hour. |
| 0:18.0 | This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery. |
| 0:24.6 | Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness. |
| 0:30.2 | If you are interested in supporting this podcast, |
| 0:33.0 | please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. The path of meditation that we're practicing is the path of opening different parts of our being on all levels to the opening of our bodies, working with becoming aware of the places of tension, |
| 1:09.4 | of holding, of energy knots, and learning how to experience them, relax into them, and open and |
| 1:18.7 | release. So we come to a more free flow of energy. |
| 1:26.0 | To the opening of our senses. I have noticed even in these first five or six days, especially when you walk outside, as the mind gets more quiet, more focused, |
| 1:50.9 | the sense perceptions get more refined. We hear things that we didn't pay attention to before. |
| 1:58.0 | We see in a different way. We smell things, to refinement and an opening of our sense perceptions. |
| 2:07.0 | It's an opening of our intellect in the sense that we become more clear about the thoughts that are going through the mind. |
| 2:21.0 | Instead of the confusion and jumble of thoughts through the practice, |
| 2:30.0 | the mind becomes more finely tuned, more clearly aware of what it is that's actually going on. |
| 2:37.0 | Opening of the body and opening of the senses, clarifying of the intellect, opening of the emotions. |
| 2:47.0 | So many parts of ourselves that we have not wanted to look at, kept down, not open toe. As we sit and pay attention over a period of time, everything |
| 3:01.1 | that's been held back or resisted begin slowly in an organic |
| 3:06.9 | way to surface. So we begin to feel in a more thorough way, in a more open way, the full range of emotional |
| 3:15.1 | states. |
| 3:19.6 | Opening of the body, opening of the intellect, of the senses of the emotions, opening of the intuition. |
| 3:27.0 | As the mind gets more silent, we gain access to an intuitive realm which is not discursive, not thinking things out, but rather |
| 3:40.0 | the mind's spontaneous responses to situations or circumstances. |
| 3:46.0 | We get more tuned to that intuitive level. |
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