Ep. 126 – Essential Buddhism Part 3: Plato's Cave & The Four Ultimate Realities

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 18 June 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

The Insight Hour podcast's "Essential Buddhism" series returns with lessons we can learn from the parable of Plato’s Cave and the Buddhist teachings on the Four Ultimate Realities.

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Continuing a series of vintage lectures stemming from the infamous Naropa Institute Summer Sessions, this Dharma Talk from July 23rd, 1974 has Joseph Goldstein using the parable of Plato's Cave to help illuminate the Four Ultimate Realities outlined in Buddhism.

This dharma talk from Joseph was originally published on Dharma Seed

Catch the first part of this series: Essential Buddhism Part 1: Developing Our Field of Awareness

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0:30.1	ads and as a very simple experiment to experience that for yourselves.
0:38.6	Just now sit and close your eyes for a moment and see if you can tell whether you're a man or a woman.
0:47.0	Try it. Sit with your eyes closed and see if you can you can experience it.
1:00.0	No way.
1:01.0	All one can feel are sensations in the body or some feeling of position.
1:10.2	Man or woman is a concept which derives from seeing color in a certain form in a certain shape.
1:21.0	It is not expressive of an ultimate reality.
1:27.0	Very interesting to give up that concept. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.
1:38.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
1:44.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
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1:53.0	please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. in the Republic of Plato called the Parable of the cave. And in this story there's a line of people, a row of people
2:21.3	chained in the cave and they are chained in such a way as they can only face the
2:28.1	back wall the back wall of the cave they cannot cannot turn around. There's this row of people and they're chained in the cave and all they can see is the back wall of the cave.
2:42.0	Behind this row of people is a fire creating light in the cave. And between the fire and the row of people is a whole procession of figures walking by, engaged in all the activities of life.
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