Ep. 193 - Sudden Awakening, Gradual Cultivation

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Explaining the ways our minds can be seduced, Joseph Goldstein teaches us how to let go into non-clinging.

This 2007 talk was originally published on Dharmaseed.

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In this episode, Joseph Goldstein teaches listeners about:

Letting go into the wisdom mind of non-clinging
Awakening to the nature of the mind
Working with the hindrances of mind
Noticing how the mind can be seduced
Skeptical doubt and being frozen in indecision
The ways that doubt can masquerade itself as wisdom
Telling ourselves that it is okay not to know
Resting in experience rather than being caught in thought loops
Investigating our aversions and their hold on the mind
Seeing everything with perfect wisdom
Transforming our attitudes about our aversions
Being inclusive to our difficult experiences

“Struggle is a great feedback because it signifies non-acceptance of something. Because if we were accepting, we wouldn’t be struggling. Whenever we’re in that sense of striving, of struggle, of tension, take that as a feedback, not as a problem. That’s telling us something. That’s saying something is going on in the body, in the mind, in the emotions, in the thoughts, in our external experience, something is going on that we’re not open to, that we’re trying to exclude, and that’s why we’re struggling.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:00.0	Struggle is a great feedback because it signifies non-acceptance of something because if we were
0:11.0	accepting we wouldn't be struggling.
0:14.0	You know, so whenever we're in that sense of striving, of struggle, of tension, whatever it may be,
0:20.0	take that as a feedback, not as a problem. That's telling us something, that's saying something
0:26.4	is going on in the body, in the mind, in the emotions, in our external experience, something
0:32.0	is going on that we are not open to, that we're trying to exclude.
0:37.0	And that's why we're struggling. Oh, Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.
1:00.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
1:07.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
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1:19.3	slash Joseph. the discussion of sudden awakening and gradual cultivation.
1:38.2	So what the sudden awakening mean?
1:57.0	It's the recognition and the experience of the minds open, empty, aware nature, which is always an already present. It's not something we have to get or develop.
2:02.0	It's rather something we need to recognize and settle back into.
2:09.0	During the day, if you find at different times that you're struggling with awareness, you know, and just
2:15.7	there's that sense of tensing or struggling, you might remind yourself with a little
2:20.9	mantra, it's already here. It's already here. And because often the
2:27.8	mind has this tendency to be looking for instead of settling back.
2:36.0	So it's not about wanting, it's not about getting.
2:41.0	It's about letting go into the wisdom mind of non-clinging.
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