Ep. 137 – The Nature of Struggle

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

Be Here Now Network

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

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🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Goldstein talks about the nature of struggle and why working with experiences of pain and difficult states of mind can be a boon for our mindfulness practice.

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“Instead of struggling with the restlessness, see if it’s possible, in the same way we work with pain, to relax into it, to open, to investigate exactly what the nature of restlessness is. Because, like pain, restlessness is an abstraction for more specific experiences. Can you pinpoint, or can you dissect, this combination of experiences which we call restlessness?” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:00.0	Use the times of struggle that come and they do come a lot. Use it as a signal or feedback.
0:07.0	Use it as a signal or feedback that that's the time and the place, or that's the situation
0:19.5	to investigate how it is that we're resisting our experience.
0:26.0	What is it that we're not opening to? Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.
0:46.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
0:52.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
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1:07.0	Tonight I'd like to talk about the nature of struggle, nature of struggle in our practice and in our understanding? Or does it always entangle us in more suffering. This question of struggling was addressed by the Buddha in the very first sermon that he gave after his
2:07.1	Enlightenment, the discourse which is called the turning of the wheel of the law, or the setting of the
2:16.6	wheel of the law in motion. The first discourse of the Buddha after his alignment talked of the four noble truths.
2:30.0	And the first part of this first discourse had to do with the investigation of struggle.
2:39.0	He used the word Duka.
2:42.0	It's a popular word. the word in the Buddhist teachings.
2:45.0	Dukkah.
2:48.0	It means that's the polyword and it means among other things hard to bear or hard to endure. The first noble truth of the Buddha's Enlightenment has to do
3:08.7	with the investigation of this aspect of reality, this aspect of reality
3:15.0	aspect of Duka or struggle or what's hard to bear, hard to endure.
3:20.0	He gave us some clue in terms of where to look for this understanding.
3:27.0	He told us what was hard to bear and was hard to endure. He said that association with what is unwanted or undesired is Duka, his struggle.
3:50.0	Parting from what is desired or what is wanted is struggle or
3:55.0	what is Dukah.
4:01.6	When we're with what we don't want, we struggle. When we're abandoned by what we do want, we struggle.
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