Ep. 194 – The Buddha’s Sacred Journey

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Goldstein describes the steps along the Buddha’s path to awakening, helping us see the significance of the Buddha in our own lives.

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This dharma talk from The Insight Meditation Society was originally published on Dharmaseed.

In this episode, Joseph Goldstein lectures on:

The sacred journey of the Buddha’s life
The Buddha as a universal archetype for awakening
Connecting the Buddha’s journey with our own journey
Materialism and the wheel of becoming
Discovering the real value in our lives
Reflecting on the inevitability of death
The uncertainty of the time of death
What actually matters when we reach our end
Our own calls to destiny
Giving up a conventional way of viewing things
Our own power over the way we are
Confronting the forces of Mara
Relative and absolute bodhicitta

“In order to awaken to the hidden possibilities of life, we need to renounce, we need to be willing to give up our ordinary or conventional way of viewing things. Things are often not what they seem to be. If we stay just on the surface, we are often living in ignorance and illusion.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:00.0	Now we each start our individual journey, our individual call to awakening, but as the practice
0:09.1	unfolds, there is a shift of understanding when we realize that we are not practicing for ourselves alone.
0:20.0	Now, and this is the arising of what is called Barijita.
0:29.0	Barijita is that motivation and practice for the aspiration that our life and our
0:40.8	Domer journey be for the benefit for the awakening of all beings. I'm going to Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.
1:09.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
1:15.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
1:21.0	If you are interested in supporting this podcast, please go to be here now network
1:26.8	dot com slash Joseph. In the different Brahma Vihara practices that we've done.
1:42.8	always start with a benefactor.
1:47.0	Tonight I'd like to speak of someone who has been a very great benefactor for us all and who in some way has been
2:00.9	responsible for us all being here together during this time.
2:05.0	I like to speak of the meaning and the significance of the Buddha in our lives and in these times.
2:17.0	We can understand the meaning of the Buddha on several different levels.
2:29.0	We can understand the Buddha as a historical person.
2:33.8	It was born in the fifth century,
2:36.2	BC, and he lived in a certain town,
2:41.5	city of Northern India, grew up all the individual historical
2:47.8	circumstances of his life. We can understand the Buddha also as a universal archetype, not just as a particular historical
3:02.2	individual, but as an archetype of the fully awakened mind,
3:10.5	the potential of that awakening or that enlightenment.
3:15.0	And when we understand the Buddha as a human archetype type of awakening.
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