Ep. 121 – Vipassana and Finding Our Buddha Nature with Sharon Salzberg

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this recording from the Insight Meditation Society, Joseph Goldstein reviews the purpose of having a practice and offers us a beginner's guide to The Buddha Nature. Later, Sharon Salzberg joins to discuss developing a practice in the refuge of retreats.

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This dharma talk from Joseph was originally published on Dharma Seed

"We take refuge in the Buddha as a symbol of being integrated not having a life or living a life that is together in one aspect and falling apart in another, but a life that is a complete expression of understanding and love and compassion." – Sharon Salzberg

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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. I hope by now you are fully oriented after this day of orientation.
1:13.0	Tonight I'd like to speak a little bit about the larger context of our practice.
1:28.0	Some ways it feels as if this retreat is a gathering of friends, a very old friends,
1:34.0	meeting again in a situation where we've probably been meeting for lifetimes
1:38.0	on this journey of hours.
1:55.0	It's a journey that, we could say, has its source, It's source of inspiration.
2:10.0	In something that happened over 2,500 years ago, the Enlightenment of the Buddha. You see as you walk around the building, you see many Buddha images.
2:21.2	Some of you may perhaps be wondering what they are or what they represent or what our relationship
2:27.5	to them is.
2:30.5	The Buddha was a human being, who was a man, who, upon contemplating certain very basic and obvious truths,
2:51.0	that is, That is the truth of being born, getting older, getting sick, of dying.
3:01.0	Kind of universal aspects of this process of existence.
3:05.0	He was a man who motivated by the contemplation of those very basic truths
3:13.2	undertook to find out
3:18.4	what it's all about.
3:27.0	And just that very motivation is rare among people. And all around us we see people being born and getting old and getting sick and dying.
3:39.0	And for the most part, it doesn't inspire us to inquire.
3:45.0	It just kind of drift along with the flow of existence.
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