Ep. 192 - The Buddha's Life And Journey

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

Be Here Now Network

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

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🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Taking a journey through the Buddha’s history, Joseph Goldstein reveals how we can relate the Bodhisattva’s experiences to our own lives.

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In this Episode, Joseph teaches on:

The history of Siddhartha Guatama
Archetypes and myths within the Buddha’s journey
Connecting individual experiences into universal principals
Joseph Campbell’s description of the Buddha’s life stages
Calls to destiny and the illusion of having a self
The profound truth of impermanence and change
Anxiety and unease from trying to posses things
Facing realities such as death and disease
One of Joseph’s first major insights into his mind
Renunciation and getting out of the seduction of appearances
Meditation and recognizing vastness
Examining what is a hindrance and what is skillful
The great struggle and developing a courageous heart
The Bodhisattva’s three watches of the night
The great awakening and working for the good of others

“In this archetypal level, the Buddha’s life reveals to us aspirations in our own. It helps us find a deeper meaning, a deeper purpose, a fuller context for our own life choices. On this archetypal level, it connects the Buddha’s journey with our own.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:00.0	So in this archival level, the Buddha's life reveals to us aspirations in our own. It helps us find a deeper meaning, a deeper purpose, a fuller
0:18.3	context for our own life choices.
0:49.0	On this archival level, it connects the Buddha's journey with our own. Oh, Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour. This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
0:55.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
1:00.0	If you are interested in supporting this podcast, please go to be here now network
1:06.2	dot com slash Joseph. In honor of yesterday's Waysack celebration, for tonight's speak of the Buddha Buddhist life and journey,
1:25.0	but particularly the meaning for it for us in these times.
1:40.0	And on Sunday, we'll again resume the series on the Saty Patasuta, which I've been talking about over the last month or so. We can consider the Buddha's life on different levels. We can consider it
1:50.6	simply on the historical level.
1:55.8	According to many Buddhist scholars, although not all,
2:01.0	he was born in the year 566 BC, born into a noble family of the Sakyas, which was, I call it a tribe or a clan or an area which is now on the border of India and Nepal.
2:18.0	He was born as a noble of that clan. And from the stories in the Suitas, the stories which he
2:28.8	recounted in the course of his teachings, we can trace some of the very specific events of his There was training, his marriage, his going forth into homelessness, his enlightenment, and the
2:49.4	many years of his
2:57.0	his teachings.
2:58.0	are all the specifics of the particular historical individual
3:02.0	are called Siddhartha Gotama.
3:05.0	On another level when we look at his life, we can really understand it as a basic archetype of humanity.
3:17.0	That is, his life as the full expression
3:20.0	or the full embodiment of the awakened mind.
3:25.6	On this archetypal level,
3:28.2	the Buddhist life is not simply the strivings
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