Ep. 128 – Essential Buddhism Part 4: Look at the Moon, Not at the Finger

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The “Essential Buddhism” series returns with a talk from Joseph Goldstein about karma and dependent origination, and a Q&A session that reminds us to look at the moon, not at the finger.

This dharma talk from the Naropa Institute Summer Sessions in 1974 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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0:00.0	So as you develop a sat in mind, you'll really be able to understand very deeply all these different
0:06.2	expressions of the drama. There's many different fingers pointing at the same one.
0:15.7	And the idea is to look at the moon, not at the finger. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.
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0:47.0	Joseph. Depending upon the sense organs, contact arises. If there were no sense organs,
1:00.0	there would be no contact. If there were no body there would be no sense organs.
1:04.8	It's all this chain of dependent origination, dependent upon the body are the sense
1:10.8	organs. Dependent upon the sense organs would be arising of contact.
1:15.2	Dependent upon contact, arise this feeling. Feeling being the quality of pleasantness or unpleasiveness or neutrality in each moment of context.
1:30.0	Whenever we see something or hear or smell or taste or touch or have a mental idea,
1:37.0	at every moment dependent upon that contact arises this feeling or quality of pleasantness and pleasantness
1:46.4	or neither.
1:48.4	No way to stop the feeling.
1:50.1	If there is contact, feeling will arise.
1:56.1	Here comes the crucial link.
1:59.3	Dependent upon feeling, a right is craving.
2:04.0	Okay, because of pleasant feeling, we crave for the object, we desire it.
2:10.0	If there were no feeling, if there was not this quality of pleasantness, there would be no craving,
2:17.0	there would be no desire.
2:19.0	It is feeling which conditions desire. Dependent upon desire is grasping or clinging at the object.
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