Ep. 138 – The Secret Name of Things

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Goldstein explores the fabricated concept of self, the secret name of things beneath our perception, the illusion of solidity, and the deeper reality that exists beyond our concept of self.

This dharma talk from October 1999 at the Insight Meditation Society Retreat Center was originally published on Dharma Seed.

“So there’s a secret name under the conventional name. The conventional name is the perception… The secret name is the sight and feel of the thing itself. Each experience speaks itself directly when we can be mindful. When there’s perception without mindfulness, then we simply get caught in this naming process, we get lost in the concept, and we stay on the very surface appearance of the experience. We’re not listening or hearing the secret name, the sight and feel of the thing itself. We’re just staying on our surface recognition, our surface perception.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:34.0	When this the ads. When there's perception without mindfulness,
0:39.2	then we simply get caught in this naming process, we get lost in the concept, and we stay on the very surface
0:50.8	appearance of the experience we're not listening or hearing the
0:57.2	secret name the sight and feel of the thing itself. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Insight Hour.
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2:01.8	Deep understanding of a nata, or the empty, selfless, insubstantial nature of things, really the jewel of the Buddha's teaching.
2:05.0	Because it radically transforms our understanding
2:10.0	both of ourselves and the nature of the world.
2:15.0	But this teaching of selflessness,
2:18.0	Anata, is also for many people the most puzzling aspect of the teachings. In some way it's
2:27.2	counterintuitive and always it's the preface of the most frequently asked questions, if there's no self, who came to the retreat?
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