Ep. 146 – The Buddha’s Life and Journey

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Goldstein explores the Buddha’s life and journey, reflecting on the four stages of this mythological unfolding of awakening and how we can all achieve the enlightenment that is the end of craving.

This dharma talk from May 5, 2004, at the Insight Meditation Society – Forest Refuge, was originally published on Dharma Seed.

“On this archetypal level, the Buddha’s life is not simply the strivings and realizations of a particular individual, we can also understand his life as the unfolding of a great mythological journey. Now, mythological here does not mean unreal, it doesn’t mean imaginary. The great power of myth in our lives is that it connects our individual experiences with more universal principles.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:34.0	In order for us to awaken to the hidden possibilities of life,
1:07.0	we need to weaken our attachments to our habitual way of viewing things. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour. This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
1:13.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
1:19.0	If you are interested in supporting this podcast,
1:22.0	please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. In honor of yesterday's Waysack celebration, for tonight's speak of the Buddha's life and journey, but particularly the meaning for it for us in these times.
1:53.4	And on Sunday we'll again resume the series on the Saty Patasuta, which I've been talking about
1:59.4	over the last month or so. We can consider the Buddha's life on different levels. We can consider it
2:10.6	simply on the historical level.
2:15.8	According to many Buddhist scholars, although not all,
2:21.1	he was born in the year 566 BC, born into a noble family of the Sakyas, which was,
2:30.0	I call it a tribe or a clan or an area which is now on the border of India and Nepal.
2:37.0	He was born as a noble of that claim. And from the stories in the Suitas, the stories which he
2:49.0	recounted in the course of his teachings, we can trace some of the very specific events of his life.
2:57.1	His birth and his childhood and his upbringing, his training, his marriage, his going forth into homelessness, his enlightenment, and the many
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