Ep. 16 - Worldly and Unworldly Feelings

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Vedana is the Buddhist term for the pleasant, unpleasant or neutral sensations that arise when our internal sense organs interact with external sense objects and the associated consciousness. Joseph explores this concept, explaining the Buddha’s heavy emphasis on establishing this form of mindfulness to better understand how are lives are unfolding on the path of awakening. In first recognizing, and subsequently investigating the origins of these feeling tones, we begin to decondition our deeply habituated tendency to grasp, avert or tune out to a given stimulus. Through practice, we gain ground on the reactive mind and further align ourselves with our true nature. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:29.0	without the ads. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Insight Hour. This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in
0:57.6	self-discovery. Join Joseph as he shares his deep practical wisdom. Last week I spoke about the relationship between Duka and Nansself, Anata.
1:22.3	How they really and non-self, Anata.
1:24.0	How they relate to one of the ungovernability of things,
1:30.0	relating to the sometimes afflictive nature of the physical elements, the whole process of
1:40.2	aging, decay, death.
1:52.0	To now I'd like to discuss aspects of the second foundation of mindfulness. That is, mindfulness of feelings in Polly, it's Védna.
1:57.0	The Buddha placed a tremendous emphasis on this particular way of establishing
2:06.7	mindfulness. Mindfulness of feeling of Edna plays a critical role in understanding both how our lives are
2:17.0	unfolding with regard to suffering and happiness, but it also plays a critical role on the path to awakening.
2:27.0	Now in English the word feeling can have a wide range of meanings.
2:35.0	One point I looked it up just in the dictionary,
2:40.0	feeling had 13 different usages. In other, it can mean, I feel a sensation, I feel this way about something.
2:58.7	I have a feeling that something is going to happen.
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