Ep. 159 – Tides of Conception

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Joseph Goldstein talks about how the tides of conceiving continually condition our lives and explores the ways we can directly experience the reality of Nibanna, the unconditioned.

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“Do we buy in? Do we buy into the content? Do we get lost in this mind-created world of ‘future,’ or can we see it as being as light as a momentary thought, a momentary image? Just like a sound arises. But it takes a great deal of vigilance because these thoughts, these tides of conceiving, are tremendously seductive. You know, we’ve been doing this for years, and perhaps lifetimes. But awareness is very powerful, we can actually free ourselves from this prison.” – Joseph Goldstein

In this episode, Joseph talks about:

How the tides of conceiving continuously arise in our mind and condition our experience
The different concepts that we solidify and make real, including our bodies, time, and the mental construct of the self
Why the concept of the self is so deeply held and why we’re so attached to it
The four realities that can be experienced directly, including that of Nibbana, which is also known as the unconditioned
The wide range of expressions of the experience of the unconditioned that is available in different Buddhist traditions

This dharma talk from December 5, 1995, was originally published on Dharma Seed.

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0:00.0	Do we buy in? Do we buy into the content? Do we get lost in this mind-created world of future? Or can we see it as being as light as a momentary thought, a momentary
0:18.4	image just like a sound arises.
0:21.8	But it takes a great deal of vigilance because these thoughts, these tides of
0:25.9	conceiving are tremendously seductive. Now we've been doing this for years and perhaps lifetimes. But awareness is very powerful. We can actually
0:38.8	free ourselves from this prison. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Insight Hour. This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
1:06.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
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1:17.0	now network.com slash Joseph. the Buddha said, by overcoming all the tides of conceiving, one is called a sage at peace.
1:40.0	By overcoming all the tides of conceiving, one is called a sage at peace.
1:48.8	It seemed a beautiful image to me, the tides of conceiving, which is this proliferation of concepts
2:01.2	that continuously sweep over the mind.
2:04.0	And they really are like the great ocean tides,
2:10.0	which are endlessly ebbing and flowing.
2:18.8	These conceptions, these tides of conceiving,
2:22.2	continuously arise in our mind and they color and they
2:27.6	obscure and they condition our experience.
2:35.0	These concepts take many forms and they function in many different ways.
2:42.0	I want to speak just briefly about how these concepts
2:50.3	take root in our minds. We usually have a surface perception of some object, and then we name it.
3:05.0	Just very ordinary, and we do this all the time.
3:09.0	Man, woman, tree, house, car, earth, whatever. There are endless names for the objects which we perceive.
3:20.0	And we assume that this concept that we've created, this name, actually refers back to some
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