Ep. 130 – Essential Buddhism Part 5: The Truth of Suffering

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The “Essential Buddhism” series continues with this 1974 dharma talk focused on the Four Noble Truths and how we must face the truth of suffering to walk the path of freedom.

This dharma talk from the Naropa Institute Summer Sessions in 1974 was originally published on Dharma Seed.

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“The end of the path is freedom. It’s open to all of us. All we have to do is begin the journey, to be facing towards the light. And some people will progress slowly, and some people will progress quickly, and it does not matter as long as we’re going in the direction of enlightenment and freedom and peace, and that very much depends upon our own effort.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:00.0	The end of the path is freedom. It's open to all of us. All we have to do is begin the journey, to be facing towards the light.
0:12.5	And some people will progress slowly,
0:15.0	and some people will progress quickly,
0:16.5	and it does not matter.
0:18.0	As long as we're going in the direction of Enlightenment
0:21.0	and freedom and peace. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Insight Hour. This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
0:47.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of Mindfulness.
0:52.8	If you are interested in supporting this podcast,
0:56.0	please go to be here now network.com
0:59.2	slash Joseph.
1:09.0	One person might describe the path that's just in front of us right now. You know, watch out for that step and go around the turn over there.
1:12.0	One person might describe the view of the
1:16.9	peak. I don't know how it looks up there in the clouds wherever. That description is going to be totally different than the description of the boulder that we have to avoid right in front of us.
1:28.0	Some person might describe what one does when one reaches the peak. Oh one dances around the top and
1:35.1	sing songs or whatever one does. That description is completely different than
1:41.3	both the vision of the top and also the steps along the path.
1:47.2	All the descriptions are merely different aspects of this journey.
1:51.1	We all have to walk up the path, have the vision of the top, and then
1:57.0	express it in whichever way we do. But we read or hear of different descriptions, which are just relaying different aspects of this
2:07.1	journey, and we think that they're different.
2:10.8	Right? There's one path to the top and once we're there it will unfold as it will
2:19.2	unfold as it will what we do. As I understand the practice of Zazin, it leads very much to a moment
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