Ep. 196 – Guided Meditation: Busy Life, No-Self

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Guiding us in three short, guided meditations, Joseph Goldstein helps us break down our identification with the body and the self.

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

In this episode of Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein guides us in:

Accessing deeper meditative states outside of a retreat
Turbo-charging our practice through shorter meditations we can do in our daily lives
Finding the mental areas where our mistaken sense of self is created
Listening to sounds and considering the ‘knowing’ rather than being a “knower”
Breaking through the identification we have with the body
Directly experiencing bodily sensations and their changing nature
Watching our thoughts and being aware in their moment of arising
Enlivening our understanding of the Buddha’s teaching through a combination of practices

“This exercise allows us to see the selfless nature of thought and gives us the ability to choose which are helpful, which are not. Which do I act on, which do I let go of.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:00.0	So this exercise allows us to see the selfless nature of thought and gives us the ability to choose, which are helpful, which are not.
0:16.0	Which do I act on, which do I let go up? Oh, Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.
0:40.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
0:46.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
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0:56.4	now network.com slash Joseph. Before I begin our guided meditation I'd like to offer some background to this practice that might be helpful.
1:15.8	I'm aware that the opportunity for longer retreats is not available for many of our community
1:21.6	who are busy raising families or busy at work.
1:25.0	And on long retreats, it's easier to access deeper meditative states,
1:31.0	but when we're involved in our worldly responsibilities, this can often
1:36.9	be quite a challenge.
1:38.9	On longer retreats, you really have an opportunity to explore the many ways in which we construct a view of self, a sense of self.
1:47.0	We begin to see the unskillful actions that come out of this mistaken notion of what we call the personality view.
1:56.0	And at different points in our practice, we can have deepening realizations of the fundamental teachings of the Buddha,
2:05.0	and that particularly is of Anata, the Polly word for selflessness or non-self,
2:12.0	that there's no inherently existing self.
2:15.0	But when we're not in a position to do a longer intensive retreat,
2:20.0	is this inside this understanding accessible to us?
2:25.0	On my last self retreat quite spontaneously, a nine minute a day plan came to my mind.
2:34.4	I thought of it as a way of turbocharging
2:37.2	our daily practice by doing three short meditations a day, three, three minute meditations a day, three minute meditations.
2:46.7	And each of these sessions
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