Ep. 145 – Selflessness: Uncommon Sense

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Goldstein provides an uncommon sense view of selflessness to help us understand the often vexing notion of no-self and talks about how we can be free from the illusion of self.

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“Self is like the Big Dipper. It’s a name, it’s a designation for a constellation of experiences. So when we say there’s no Big Dipper, does anything change in the sky? Everything is as it always was. In exactly the same way, our realization of selflessness does not change anything. Our experience is as it always was and will be. We’re simply seeing it in a truer way, we’re seeing it not limited by the conceptual overlay. We’re seeing it as it is. Then we can use the concept when it’s useful, but we’re not imprisoned by it, and we’re not limited by it, and we don’t contract in our identification with it.” – Joseph Goldstein

This dharma talk from February 11, 2003, at the Insight Meditation Society, was originally published on Dharma Seed.

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0:37.8	Cell is like Big Dipper. It's a name, it's a designation for a constellation of experiences.
0:43.4	So when we say there's no big dipper,
0:46.6	does anything change in the sky?
0:49.6	Everything is as it always was. In exactly the same way our realization of selflessness does not change anything.
1:01.1	Our experience is as it always was and will be. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.
1:24.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
1:30.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
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1:39.0	please go to Be Here Now Network.com
1:42.0	slash Joseph. There are so many aspects of the Buddhist teachings about the nature of
1:57.6	suffering and the possibility of freedom that resonate with our own common sense view of the nature of reality,
2:07.0	the nature of ourselves of the world, the importance of non-harming as the foundation of morality for people living together in community, it seems obvious.
2:25.0	The understanding that everything in our lives and experience is constantly changing,
2:31.0	and that the more we hold on to that which changes the more we
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