Ep. 169 – The Heart of Wisdom

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Goldstein guides us through the steps of integrating the science of meditation with the art of meditation as a way of awakening within us the heart of wisdom.

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“Through this integration, the art and the science, we really awaken in us this heart of wisdom. And the heart of wisdom means seeing the true nature of phenomena. Seeing the true nature very deeply and very profoundly. It means going from the level of concept, from the level of our ideas and opinions about things, to the nature of the reality of it.” – Joseph Goldstein

In this episode, Joseph explores:

How our practice is about awakening the heart of wisdom within us by integrating the science of meditation with the art of meditation
The steps to integrate the science and art of meditation, including opening ourselves to all aspects of experience and refining the quality of our relationship to experience
How we can drop from the level of concept to the level of what’s really happening, the true nature of experience
How we can further develop concentration and mindfulness

This dharma talk from September 24, 1988, was originally published on Dharma Seed.

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0:00.0	Through this of wisdom means seeing the true nature of phenomena, seeing the true nature very
0:19.2	deeply and very profoundly. It means going from the level of concept, from the level of
0:28.0	our ideas and opinions about things, to the nature of the reality of it. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.
0:53.2	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest
0:56.8	in self-discovery.
0:59.1	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge
1:01.9	of the path of mindfulness.
1:04.8	If you are interested in supporting this podcast,
1:08.0	please go to be here now network.com
1:11.2	slash Joseph.
1:13.0	Often we speak of meditation practice as being an investigation of the mind, looking into the mind and exploring the mind.
1:35.0	But in our Western understanding of that word,
1:41.0	we often have a limited view. of that's
1:45.0	we often have a limited view or a limited understanding of what's meant by mind.
1:52.0	It's often from a Western perspective we think of mind as meaning intelligence or intellect or
2:01.4	the discriminating faculty. or the
2:05.0	word,
2:08.0	word, the Buddhist sense, the word mind is much more expensive. The mind is not limited to the thinking process, but rather includes in it everything we also associate with the heart of feelings and emotions and intuition.
2:35.0	So when we say that meditation is an exploration of the mind,
2:42.0	we mean it in this very expanded sense.
2:50.2	An exploration of the thought process, of the feeling process, of the intuitive process, of the emotional process,
3:00.0	an investigation of silence.
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