Ep. 176 – Questions About The Path to Awakening

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Goldstein leans on his decades of study and practice of the Dharma to answer a diverse range of spiritual and existential questions from his students and online retreat attendees.

This dharma talk from May 14, 2023, was recorded at the Insight Meditation Society and originally published on Dharma Seed.

In this Q&A style talk, Joseph answers an assortment of questions concerning:

The stages of enlightenment
Being mindful of positive and wholesome mind states
Realizing selflessness
Concepts, the nature of consciousness, and reality
Practicing mindfulness in modernity
Karma and reincarnation

"We think our lives are so complicated and so confused in the modern world, in the ancient world and - at any point in time, there are only these six things happening. It's a sight, its a sound, it's a taste, it's a sensation, it's something going on in our minds. So, I like to think of all life, and the unfolding of our lives, as a six piece chamber orchestra. It's just playing the music." - Joseph Goldstein

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0:33.0	We think our lives are so complicated and so confused in the modern world and the ancient world and at any
0:40.0	point in time there are only these six things happening. It's a sight, it's a sound, it's a smell, it's a taste, it's a sensation, it's something
0:48.6	going on in our minds. So I like to think of our life and the unfolding of our lives as a six-piece chamber
1:00.3	orchestra. It's just playing the music. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour. This podcast is an expression of our shared
1:26.2	interest in self-discovery. Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of
1:32.0	the path of mindfulness.
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1:38.0	please go to be here now network.com
1:41.0	slash Joseph. As you know,
1:53.0	know, someone wants to ask Deepama, what is it like in your mind?
2:01.0	And she said something, you know where it's going, and she said something like mindfulness and she said something like mindfulness and
2:06.8	compassion. After 50 years of practice what is it like in your mind? What do we have to quote unquote
2:17.2	look forward to? Do you feel you've experienced something to make you confident that there is such a thing as enlightenment?
2:27.0	Sometimes I have doubts about plunging all the way in the fear that this idea of enlightenment is not real. From your
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