Ep. 148 – Refraining From Unwholesome Activities

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Joseph Goldstein explores the 10 unwholesome activities and actions of the body, speech, and mind that the Buddha advises us all to refrain from for our own happiness and well-being.

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This dharma talk from October 29, 1995, at the Insight Meditation Society, was originally published on Dharma Seed.

“The whole path of practice of understanding is realizing that we actually have choices all along the way. We don’t simply need to be acting out the patterns of our conditioning. And this is the great gift of awareness, it gives us the possibility of choice.” – Joseph Goldstein

In this episode, Joseph explores:

How the Buddha’s motivation was compassion for all beings, and how this led to him explicitly spelling out the 10 unskilled and unwholesome actions to refrain from

The four unwholesome actions of the body: killing, stealing, and sexual misconduct

The four unwholesome elements of speech: lying, harsh speech, gossiping, and frivolous and useless talking

The three unwholesome activities of the mind: covetousness, ill will, and wrong view

How the great power of awareness is the way to work with all of these actions and activities as they arise

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0:00.0	These are the 10 unholstom actions.
0:05.0	Three of body, not killing, not stealing, not sexual misconduct.
0:09.0	Four of speech, not lying, not harsh speech, not gossip, not frivolous speech, and three of the mind,
0:19.1	covetousness, ill will, and wrong view. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.
0:39.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
0:45.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
0:51.0	If you are interested in supporting this podcast, please go to be here now network
0:56.8	dot com slash Joseph. Wisdom and compassion are the two great wings of the darma.
1:15.0	And they're two of the perfections
1:20.0	of the Buddha's Enlightenment.
1:24.0	His compassion manifest
1:27.0	in the very great loving care he had for all beings.
1:41.0	Care for the suffering and the wish to alleviate that suffering. And was this compassion that fuels... that
1:45.0	the compassion that fuels the effort of lifetimes of practice.
1:51.0	That feeling of compassion which sustained those efforts and it
1:56.4	culminated in the wisdom of his Enlightenment which understood so deeply the causes of the suffering of how it is that we get so
2:06.1	entangled even in our efforts to be happy still doing things which bring us more unhappiness.
2:20.4	He then spent 45 years after his Enlightenment walking around Northern India, teaching and admonishing and exhorting, and sometimes even tricking beings into doing that which was for their welfare and their well-being.
2:38.0	He used whatever skillful means was appropriate to enable people to awaken, to awaken from the
2:50.2	dream of ignorance, from the dream of delusion.
2:55.4	One monk who had been just hankering after the pleasures of lay life,
3:01.8	even after he ordained.
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