Ep. 172 – Consciousness: The Power of Mind

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Taking a journey into the vastness of the mind, Joseph Goldstein explores the creative power of consciousness.

In this episode, Joseph Goldstein elucidates:

Consciousness as the creator of our inner and outer worlds.
The suffering that can come from an uncultivated mind
Mental illness, obsessions, addictions and thought-loops
Being a prisoner of our own untrained mind
Impermanence, empowerment, and the potential of the inner Buddha
The Mahamudra and taming the mind
Staying mindful during defilement

“The Buddha talked of how this mind, this force or power of consciousness, can be our worst enemy or the most benevolent friend.” – Joseph Goldstein

About Joseph Goldstein:

Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and loving-kindness meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. He is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he is one of the organization’s guiding teachers. In 1989, together with several other teachers and students of insight meditation, he helped establish the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.

“What’s most helpful to remember, in this part of the process where we become so aware of these defilements of the mind, is that they are visitors. They are not the nature of the mind itself. And because they are visitors we don’t have to judge ourselves, and we don’t have to judge them.” – Joseph Goldstein

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1:05.0	The Buddha talked of how this mind this force or power of consciousness can be our worst enemy or the most benevolent friend. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour. This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
1:11.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
1:17.0	If you are interested in supporting this podcast, please go to Be Here Now network.com slash Joseph. We've talked about the vastness of the Buddha's vision that is the wandering through many lifetimes and through the different realms of existence and the presence of the innumerable world systems and the great amenities of time.
2:07.0	In thinking about this description of the universe, one can get a feel for that creates tremendous spaciousness of understanding,
2:28.0	creates a spaciousness of mind and meaning in our lives.
2:35.0	Although we may have a confidence of faith in this part of the teachings,
2:45.0	still something which for most of us
2:49.0	remain somewhat theoretical.
2:52.0	That is, we may not actually have experienced this for ourselves. There's another way of understanding the vastness of vision which we can each touch, which we can each experience.
3:13.2	It's an understanding in a particular way of the depths of this
3:21.1	depth of this Dama journey.
3:25.0	Not as the opening to the experience of consciousness itself.
3:35.0	Journey into the vastness of the mind. The most interesting pressing compelling question for us is what. us. What is this consciousness? How does it create all the world in which we live.
4:07.3	It's creative of the physical world.
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