Ep. 180 – Relative and Ultimate Bodhicitta Part 2

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Goldstein continues his discussion of bodhicitta – the awakened heart.

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In this lecture, Joseph:

Reminds us that obstructions and defilements of thought are not intrinsic to the mind
Provides us with a methodology for freeing ourselves from entanglement and attachment
Compares the clinging mind to ice and the luminous mind to water
Recognizes the causal relationship between mindfulness and compassion
Teaches us that how we feel and respond to situations is up to us
Maintains that cultivating compassion is a process that comes with daily practice

“The development of love and compassion is a wide, round curve that can be negotiated only slowly. Not a sharp corner that can be turned all at once. It comes with daily practice.”

This dharma talk from June 12, 2015, was recorded at the Insight Meditation Society and originally published on Dharma Seed.

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0:39.2	The development of love and compassion is a wide round curve that can be negotiated only slowly not a sharp corner that can be turned all at once it comes with daily practice. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.
1:05.0	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. The last time it began the discussion on relative and ultimate bodeshutta.
1:42.4	That is the understanding and
1:45.0	the understanding of compassion and emptiness.
1:49.0	And this union was beautifully expressed
1:52.0	in those lines by the Tibetan master shop car and he said
1:57.5	the mind's nature is vivid as a flawless piece of crystal, intrinsically empty, naturally radiant, and ceaselessly
2:10.1	responsive. So we discussed in some detail the understanding of and the
2:17.7	experience of emptiness and also the understanding that the mind is not simply empty like space.
2:28.0	Space doesn't know anything.
2:31.0	The mind is empty like space but also has an innate knowing capacity.
2:40.0	And this knowing capacity is not something that we have to get.
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