Ep. 188 – Skillful Means for Non-Clinging

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In this question-and-answer session, Joseph Goldstein explores skillful means for non-clinging, how to work with the comparing mind, the intricacies of walking meditation, and much more.

This dharma talk, recorded on October 20, 2023, was originally published on Dharma Seed.

In this episode of Insight Hour:

Joseph offers a series of tips on walking meditation
He responds to questions about working with the comparing mind and working with the mind that is desperate to fix everything
Joseph talks about how it is possible for a layperson to awaken and why enlightenment is all about lightening up
He explores the importance of not being attached to our beliefs or our disbeliefs and keeping an open mind
Finally, Joseph offers his perspective on how the Dharma has helped him in difficult times and why the Buddhist teachings are all about skillful means for non-clinging

“So when I began to hear these different teachings, rather than frame it – ‘Which is true?’ or ‘Which is right?’ – just to take the teachings as skillful means. So then the question is, skillful means for what? And here is where all the traditions of Buddhism are unified, and that is a skillful means for non-clinging. That’s the essence of the free mind in all the Buddhist traditions.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:00.0	Because we can be as attached to disbelief as we are to belief.
0:10.0	And so with things that we don't know, I think it's a much wiser frame to say, I don't know.
0:21.5	And just stay open in the not knowing rather than it's not true because saying
0:31.1	it's not true implies that you know. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.
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1:13.0	So the first question I have chosen is,
1:25.0	dear to my heart, how about some tips on walking meditation?
1:31.0	I think the first thing I want to say is that very often
1:36.9	people have created an internal hierarchy about the importance of various aspects of the practice.
1:47.0	And for many people, sitting is at the top, walking is next, and everything else is a distant third.
1:57.0	Just as an experiment, maybe for half a day or a day.
2:04.0	It might be interesting just to reverse the order,
2:08.0	you know, and to give primary importance
2:11.0	to all the other activities in the day.
2:15.0	Were you giving the same attention to that as you do to the sitting,
2:20.0	and then the walking and the sitting,
2:23.0	which doesn't mean you should come to the sitting.
2:26.0	You know, because for me, the walking practice
2:31.0	has been as insightful and some of the most interesting insights happen in the
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