Ep. 150 – Nature of Mind

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Exploring the dharma of liberation, Joseph invite us beyond delusion and into the true nature of mind as innate wakefulness.

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“Sudden awakening is not a state of mind that is developed—it's the innate wakefulness of mind, it's the nature of mind that is free of delusion. When delusion is not present, there is the experience of awareness, of wakefulness.” – Joseph Goldstein

This dharma talk from February 16, 2000, was originally published on Dharma Seed.

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0:00.0	The good news is even though delusion arises in very many moments, it's not inherent to consciousness. It's not
0:18.6	an inherent part of it. There are many moments, or some moments, when the mind actually is arising free of
0:31.2	delusion. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.
0:49.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
0:55.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
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1:06.5	dot com slash Joseph. Over the last 10 or 20 years there have been many different Buddhist traditions funneling into the West.
1:27.4	These traditions in Asia often did not really communicate
1:31.3	with one another. In some way they developed quite isolated from
1:37.1	interaction. So in the traditions are meeting here, sometimes there are misunderstandings or confusions that happen.
1:51.0	The one story, the meeting of two great masters from different traditions, it was in the 70s.
1:58.0	It was Kala Rinpache, was one of the great Tibetan masters meeting
2:05.1	Sung San San San Sani, Korean Zen master.
2:08.7	They met at a mutual friend's house in Cambridge.
2:27.0	And Sansn's name in traditional Zen Darma Combat Fashion, Helbatt fashion, Dormat fashion held up in orange and he said, what is this? I'm expecting some enlightened response I guess.
2:35.0	So collarimpsch kind of looked a little confused.
2:39.0	And so Sansigny McGend demanded, what is this?
2:43.0	And Kaler Imbachee didn't really reply.
2:48.0	And once more, Saniname asked this question.
2:52.0	Finally, Kalarimasse turned to his attendant and interpreter and he said,
2:57.0	what's the matter? Don't they have oranges in Korea? Yeah. So what I'd like to do tonight is to talk about oranges. I'd like to talk about the nature of mind and to try to clarify some of the words we've been using and are used in the
3:39.6	different traditions when we use to describe this mind, words like consciousness and awareness and
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