Ep. 139 – Understanding Desire

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In helping us with understanding desire, Joseph Goldstein explores the three types of desire that the Buddha spoke of and offers several ways of working with desire in our practice.

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This recording was originally published on Dharma Seed

“Usually we think that what we want is the object. But really what we want is the pleasant feeling that we think is going to come with that experience.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:00.0	Not only does desire hinder concentration and obscure the natural clarity of mind,
0:09.7	the natural openness of mind, but it also in the end does not fulfill its
0:20.3	promise of happiness. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Insight Hour.
0:40.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
0:45.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
0:51.0	If you are interested in supporting this podcast, please go to be here now
0:56.3	network.com slash Joseph. The nature of our minds is clear, it's lucid, it's unobstructed.
1:17.0	The nature of the mind is simply to know what's arising.
1:27.0	Nature of the mind is awareness.
1:30.0	But somehow we don't recognize this simplicity, the empty open nature of awareness itself.
1:45.7	We find that we get distracted,
1:49.6	we get seduced, we get caught up.
2:01.2	In a whole variety of ways through some very long established habit patterns or tendencies, habits of thought, habits of feeling that
2:09.7	catch us again and again.
2:33.0	And often these patterns or these habits are so familiar a part of who we take ourselves to be, that they remain invisible.
2:39.0	It's as if we become so identified with them
2:43.0	that we really don't even see them.
2:51.0	And it's for this reason that we need to bring a very focused
3:07.0	and clear intent attentive mindfulness to the working of our own minds so that we really can begin to see the forces, the tendencies, the conditioned habits that are at play. This is not an easy task.
3:15.0	Buda gave an image of how difficult it is, he said,
3:26.0	that it would be easier to conquer a thousand enemies in battle
3:31.0	single-handedly.
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