Ep. 167 – Self and Self Loss

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

Be Here Now Network

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

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🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Extricating us from dualist concepts of self and other, Joseph helps us move from the 'ego-center' to the 'zero-center' through opening to love.

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“There are so many parts of our experience which we don't like, we don't want to be there. We condemn, we judge, we push away—it can be difficult feelings in the body, difficult emotions, feelings of hatred, rage, unworthiness, loneliness, profound alienation. It can be so many things, so many parts of the mind that are the shadow side. The process of healing, the process of integration, is a willingness to open to all of those sides, to see the shadow in all its manifestation.” – Joseph Goldstein

In this episode, Joseph dives into:

How we create the concept of duality/seperation (self and other, inside and outside, persona and shadow, etc.)
Understanding our practice of Dharma as reintegrating and unifying
Using mindfulness to shine light on our shadow by making the subconscious conscious
Moving from the 'ego-center' to the 'zero-center' using the intermediate space of love (a very deep appreciation, respect, and openness for every moment's experience)
Carlos Castaneda and the relationship between impeccability and emptiness

This episode recorded 11/29/1986 at the Insight Meditation Society was originally published on DharmaSeed

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0:00.0	There are so many parts of our experience which we don't like. We don't want to be there.
0:10.0	We condemn, we judge, we push away, and it can be difficult feelings in the body,
0:20.0	it can be difficult emotions.
0:30.0	Feelings of hatred, of rage, of unworthiness, of loneliness, of loneliness, of loneliness, of profound alienation can be so many things, so many parts of the mind that is
0:38.8	the shadow side.
0:41.8	The process of healing is a
0:45.0	of integration is a willingness to see the
0:55.0	see the shadow in all its manifestation. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Insight Hour.
1:17.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
1:22.0	Join Joseph as he shares his interest in self-discovery.
1:23.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
1:28.6	If you are interested in supporting this podcast,
1:31.8	please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. An underlying theme in many different spiritual traditions is the understanding,
1:56.3	an investigation of the understanding of how we create dualistic perception.
2:06.2	How we create
2:10.5	this feeling of separation and distinction
2:17.0	through concepts and perceptions of duality.
2:23.0	Because to the degree that we are lost in dualistic perception,
2:31.0	we imprison ourselves in a sense of isolation, in a sense of separateness.
2:49.0	In one of his books, Ken Wilbur, in the book's spectrum of consciousness,
2:52.0	he outlined very succinctly different levels of duality, and they relate
3:00.5	quite well to the experiences that we have in our meditation practice.
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