Ep. 140 – Carrying Practice Into the World

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this dharma talk, Joseph Goldstein describes the art of carrying our practice into the world through training in the areas of Right Effort, concentration, and wisdom.

This dharma talk from February 1994 at the Insight Meditation Society Retreat Center was originally published on Dharma Seed.

"You know, the Dharma's so beautiful because it's like everything feeds into everything else. And we can really begin to be leading our life with this kind of integration. Dharma practice is not a hobby that we do occasionally, it's really how we're living our life." – Joseph Goldstein

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0:00.0	The dorm is so beautiful because it's like everything feeds into everything else.
0:08.4	And we can really begin to be leading our life with this kind of integration.
0:15.0	It's, Dama practice is not, it's not a hobby,
0:20.0	you know that we do occasionally.
0:22.0	It's really how we're living our life. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.
0:43.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
0:48.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
0:54.3	If you are interested in supporting this podcast,
0:57.5	please go to be here now network.com
1:00.7	slash Joseph.
1:07.0	I think the main question that really arises for people is how can we carry the practice out into the world.
1:21.0	You know here there's a very supportive environment everybody's doing the same thing more or less
1:29.9	Of course you never quite know what people are doing.
1:35.0	Out in the world though, it's really there's not a lot of support.
1:41.0	People are not going around repeating phrases of love and kindness all day.
1:47.0	So how do we actually integrate it? I think there are two important principles to keep in mind.
1:57.0	The first is that the same kind of right effort that's needed on retreat is needed outside of retreat.
2:12.0	But this is usually not how we imagine it. I know that
2:18.9	there's often the feeling well we'll come into our work on retreat, and we'll really put energy and be
2:24.3	persevering, and then somehow as the reward of having done that we can go back into
2:30.3	our lives and just coast and hope it follows us.
2:37.7	I think that's not a helpful way to look at it
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