Ep. 143 – Transforming Fear

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Goldstein talks about the nature of fear, how it’s conditioned in the mind, how we can work with it, and embracing the possibility of transforming fear into wisdom and freedom.

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This dharma talk from October 11, 2000, at the Insight Meditation Society Retreat Center, was originally published on Dharma Seed.

“At these times, great courage is needed. And courage here is not an absence of fear. Courage does not mean an absence of fear, it means an acceptance of fear.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:30.1	ads the key to working with fear is becoming mindful of the fact that it's arising
0:41.1	become accepting of the fear itself.
0:45.0	And this is where the all-purpose magic mantra comes in,
0:51.0	which will serve you very well in working with fear and almost everything else.
0:59.4	It's okay. Welcome. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.
1:18.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
1:24.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
1:30.0	If you are interested in supporting this podcast, please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. You can understand Dorma practice as being a path of opening.
1:51.2	It's a path of opening to our bodies.
1:55.0	We start usually with a sense of our bodies as being something very solid.
2:01.0	And as the mind quiets we begin to experience the body as particular sensations.
2:07.0	And as we open even further, we experience the body as an energy flow, an energy system.
2:18.6	We begin to feel it as an unwinding of the knots and tensions.
2:25.0	Path of Dorma practice is opening the sense doors.
2:30.0	As our mind gets quieter, we begin to perceive through the senses with much greater
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