Ep. 118 – The Tao of Simplicity
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In a session interweaving Buddhist and Taoist wisdom, Joseph Goldstein reveals how simplicity and spaciousness help us let go of our spiritual self-image and open to the Dharma.
In this vintage Dharma talk stemming from the Insight Meditation Society on May 30th, 1983, Joseph Goldstein explores the spiritual discipline of simplicity through the mindful interplay and application of Taoism and Buddhism.
This dharma talk from Joseph was originally published on Dharma Seed
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| 0:29.2 | without the ads. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour. |
| 0:49.0 | This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery. |
| 0:55.0 | Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness. |
| 1:00.0 | If you are interested in supporting this podcast, please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. It said that at one time the Buddha was addressing an assemblage of monks and nuns and lay people from the top of Vulture Peak, which is a small mountain in Northern India. |
| 1:32.0 | There were several thousand people sitting around him. |
| 1:40.0 | And what he did in delivering this sermon or discourse, he took a flower and he held up the flower. |
| 2:03.0 | one monk, his name was Maha Kasapa smiled. |
| 2:07.0 | The Buddha put down the flower. That was the discourse. |
| 2:12.0 | What would you make? That was the discourse. |
| 2:16.0 | What would you make of such a discourse? |
| 2:20.0 | If someone came in and held up a flower, |
| 2:23.0 | would you smile? |
| 2:30.0 | Actually in the holding up of the flower, if we know how to perceive correctly, the whole of the dama is revealed. |
| 2:39.0 | The whole dama can be understood in seeing the flower. |
| 2:45.4 | We can begin to understand how different forms |
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