Ep. 199 – Self And Selfless

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

Be Here Now Network

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

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🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Goldstein meets us at the constellation of self, the duality of self, and the need for mindfulness.

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This time on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein gets into:

Duality and how it relates to our meditation practice
The fundamental split of object and subject
Limitations from perceiving ourselves as separate
Persona and the identification we have with the world
The progression from fullness/oneness to constriction
Having compassion for the shadow side
How fear desire, and attachment, make us more attached to our sense of self
Being imprisoned and conditioned by dualistic perception
The integration of mind and body and love for all experience as the connector
From the ego center to the zero center
Being totally honest with what is happening
Mindfulness as the tool to stop identification
The power of renunciation and restraint

This 2005 dharma talk was originally published by Dharmaseed

“As long as we are identified with that sense of self in the mind, that identification creates fear, attachment, separation, comparing. If there’s an “I”, if there’s a self, then we have to defend it, we have to protect it, we have to gratify it, and our whole lives revolve around this particular identification.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:00.0	We have created duality in every moment we identify with something.
0:10.0	We've created the sense of self apart from the whole in that moment.
0:17.0	And so you can see how powerful the whole development of mindfulness is.
0:24.0	In every moment of mindfulness there is non-identification.
0:28.0	There is simply the awareness of thought, of feeling, of breath of sight of sound and smell.
0:40.0	Just the moment arising and passing. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Insight Hour.
1:00.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
1:06.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
1:12.0	If you are interested in supporting this podcast, please go to be here
1:16.6	now network.com slash Joseph. the underlying theme in many different spiritual traditions is the understanding and investigation of the
1:38.2	understanding of how we create this feeling of separation
1:45.0	how we create
1:50.0	this feeling of separation and distinction
1:55.0	through concepts and perceptions of duality.
2:00.0	Because to the degree that we are lost in dualistic perception, we imprison ourselves in a sense of isolation, in a sense of separateness.
2:31.4	And one of his books, Ken Wilbur, in the book spectrum of consciousness, he outlined very succinctly different levels of duality.
2:37.2	And they relate quite well
2:38.9	to the experiences that we have in our meditation practice.
2:46.3	The most fundamental split, the most fundamental
2:50.6	duality which we create is that of subject and object of self and other, of inside and outside.
3:08.4	The some process of mind through which we identify with ourselves as an organism
3:17.0	apart from the totality of the universe,
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