Ep. 136 – Pain and Trust
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Joseph Goldstein explores how to understand pain, how to relate to it, and how to use it, plus he talks about the quality of trust and learning to trust the moment’s experience.
“Working with pain, opening to pain, to discomfort, begins to open up a whole range of experience in our lives that previously we’ve been closed to.” – Joseph Goldstein
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| 0:00.0 | So a lot of pain and discomfort that we feel in the practice is actually a coming into |
| 0:08.4 | touch with a deeper level of our experience. It's as if we begin to become aware of the energy patterns in our body, |
| 0:17.0 | those patterns of holding, |
| 0:20.0 | we begin to feel often for the first time the depth and the intensity of those particular patterns. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour. |
| 0:45.0 | This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery. |
| 0:51.0 | Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness. |
| 0:57.0 | If you are interested in supporting this podcast, please go to Be Here Now network.com slash Joseph. |
| 1:07.0 | A topic of great interest to all of us. And that's the topic of pain. |
| 1:21.8 | How to The topic of pain, how to understand it, how to relate to it, how to use it. |
| 1:31.0 | Our relationship to pain is well expressed in one of the stories of Mullenazredin. It seems he was traveling back and forth between Turkey |
| 1:51.0 | and Persia. He's making this journey very often and slowly amassing a great fortune. |
| 2:00.0 | Every time he came back into Persia across the border, |
| 2:04.8 | the customs people would search the saddlebags |
| 2:09.7 | on his donkey looking for jewels or drugs or whatever. |
| 2:13.1 | They smuggled in those days. |
| 2:15.8 | They could never find anything. |
| 2:18.4 | Azudine would go through reports are circulating about how wealthy he's becoming. |
| 2:25.0 | Making all this money. |
| 2:28.0 | Again, back and forth. |
| 2:30.0 | Every time he stops at the border going back into Persia, they search and all they find is the straw in the saddlebags. |
| 2:37.0 | This is a great mystery to the government officials. |
| 2:41.0 | After some time of doing this, one of the customs people |
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