Ep. 142 – Doubt, Restlessness, & Sloth

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Goldstein explores the mental factors of doubt, restlessness, and sloth, which are three hindrances that can cause a lack of vision and knowledge, and lead us away from Nibbana.

This dharma talk from November 2002 at the Insight Meditation Society Retreat Center was originally published on Dharma Seed.

“This skeptical doubt, this indecision, this bewilderment, in terms of our meditation practice, is actually quite a dangerous mind state. Because unnoticed, if we’re not mindful of it, it brings our practice to a standstill.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:00.0	Sometimes sloth and torpor fools us, tricks us because it comes masquerading as compassion. Just like doubt can
0:14.0	masquerade his wisdom. These mental factors are very tricky. It takes a lot of
0:22.2	discernment to really see what is going on. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.
0:44.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
0:49.8	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
0:55.6	If you are interested in supporting this podcast, please go to be here now network.com
1:02.0	slash Joseph.
1:03.4	Tonight I'd like to talk about a few deeply conditioned, deeply habituated patterns of mind,
1:22.0	which when they are carelessly attended to, cause lack of vision, lack of knowledge, are detrimental to wisdom tending to vexation leading away from
1:39.2	Nibana. Can you guess what they are? But when we do attend to these states carefully,
1:50.1	we see into their empty transparent nature when no longer caught up in the power of their
1:58.6	enchantment.
2:02.1	The Buddha spoke very directly about these states.
2:08.4	He said in talking of the hindrances,
2:17.0	when these hindrances are unobrances. When these hindrances are un-abandened in oneself, a bikoo, and a bikoo here means not only monk,
2:20.0	but anyone who is practicing the dama.
2:24.0	Hebiku sees them respectively as a debt, a disease, a prison house, slavery, and a road across a desert.
2:37.0	But when these five hindrances have been abandoned in oneself,
2:41.0	that is seen as freedom from debt, healthiness, release from prison, freedom
2:46.5	from slavery, and the land of safety.
2:50.7	I think the Buddha did not use these metaphors carelessly.
2:57.0	When we really look at our experience,
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