Ep. 190 - Questions and Answers on Buddhist Practice

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Going through questions submitted by meditators on retreat, Jill Shepard asks Joseph about discernment and other Buddhist practices.

This episode was recorded as part of a three-month retreat at the Insight Meditation Society and originally published by Dharmaseed

In this episode, Joseph answers questions on:

What it means to waste your suffering
Turning attention inward and looking at the cause of suffering
Attachment, resistance, and false perception
Self and anatta (not-self)
The wholesome and unwholesome roots of all skillful actions
Looking honestly at our intentions and motivations
Honoring the presence of our emotions versus being caught by them
The message we can receive from anger
Discernment and bringing mindfulness into love
Liberation through non-clinging
Working with doubt and the inner voice that fools and seduces us
Surrendering to the Dharma
How practice prepares us for growing old

“It’s really important to be honest about the range of our own motivations because if we’re not honest about it, we’re not going to see it. If we don’t see it, we may very well be acting on the unwholesome motivations.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:00.0	It's really important to be honest about the range of our own motivations because if we're not
0:08.9	honest about it, we're not going to see it. And if we't see it we may very well be acting on the unwholesome motivations. And the Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.
0:38.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
0:44.8	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
0:50.5	If you are interested in supporting this podcast, please go to be here big thank you to Joseph for being here tonight.
1:14.0	Me personally for him choosing my talk night.
1:17.0	I get a pass for this evening.
1:27.0	So thank you for all of your questions. Just to see there were a lot, there was a veritable blizzard of bits of paper in the basket.
1:33.4	So I know we're not going to get time to cover all of them tonight.
1:39.2	We teachers can try to follow up with some that we don't get to in the morning reflections over the next few days.
1:45.6	If some of them feel a bit more urgent, you might bring them to your practice teachers or to Shelly.
1:52.4	And some of them are a little more themed around
1:55.4	practice in daily life so we'll save those ones for closer towards the end of
2:01.2	the retreat. So I've got a list here of all the questions that
2:05.9	came in. A lot of them began with a lot of gratitude for Joseph.
2:12.9	So just to save time, I'll read one representative
2:16.8	gratitude and then you can assume
2:18.6	that all the rest of them had a similar preface.
2:22.8	Okay?
2:23.6	So it says, I wanted to share my deepest gratitude
2:27.0	for all you've done to bring the Dama to the West.
2:29.6	If it weren't for you, I would not have encountered
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