Ep. 198 – Facing Our Fears

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Goldstein discusses how working with fear is absolutely essential in our practice of understanding, opening, and accepting.

This 1983 dharma talk was originally published on Dharmaseed.

This week on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein teaches us about:

Releasing tension through awareness
The body as an energy system
Opening up to the Buddha nature
Working with fear and emotional pain
Resistance and unwillingness to be uncomfortable
Becoming open to pain and discomfort
Insecurity and the fear of being judged
How the fear of feeling certain emotions keeps us bound to negative habits
How openness allows our hearts to be touched
Death and fear of the unknown
Being okay with being afraid
Having space for fear without demands
Lovingkindness as the antidote for fear

“What we’re doing in our practice is learning how to work with those experiences which often cause trouble, which often cause resistance, which we’re afraid of.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:32.1	can we be accepting of fear?
0:35.0	Can we get okay with feeling afraid?
0:40.0	Because as long as we're afraid of feeling fear, for so long do we stay locked into it and
0:50.0	identified with it. Fear like every other emotion, like sadness, like happiness, like joy, like anger,
0:59.8	fear is another mind state which arises when the conditions are there.
1:04.9	Not I, not self.
1:07.8	Impermanent, it arises and passes. is. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Insight Hour.
1:28.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
1:34.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
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1:43.0	please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. The path of our
1:55.0	of our dama practice is the path of opening.
2:01.0	It's the opening of our bodies,
2:07.0	it's the opening of our sense stores,
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