Ep. 203 – Ask Joseph: Questions From Student To Teacher

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Responding to student questions, Joseph Goldstein invigorates listeners to have faith and confidence in dharma practice.

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This week on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein answers questions on:

Mental noting throughout meditation
Working with a greedy mind
Dukkha and craving as the fundamental cause of suffering
Small moments of renunciation
The deepening of concentration over time and why practice is non-linear
Keeping confidence in the dharma
Doubt as the most problematic feeling within practice
Dealing with shame, depression, unworthiness, and other painful mind-states
Balancing self-knowing and deepening insight into non-self
Fear of impermanence and attachment to things staying the same

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“We really just need to continue doing the practice and have that trust that the dharma will lead us onward, which it does. I’ve seen it in myself and I’ve seen it in thousands of yogis. I have a lot of confidence in that.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:00.0	All throughout our life. This relationship of thought to emotion is really interesting to watch.
0:11.0	Because the thought may be about something that is not actually happening in the moment and yet just having the thought can create powerful emotions of distress.
0:28.0	So if we can catch the thoughts,
0:30.9	if we can catch the particular thoughts that trigger the fear that trigger the
0:36.6	anxiety and see them oh this is just a thought this is just a thought now and come back to the actual present experience.
0:47.0	So that's a first step. Oh, Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Insight Hour.
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1:15.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
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1:27.0	dot com slash Joseph. Okay, good to see all of you and your little boxes.
1:37.0	Okay, good to see all of you and your little boxes.
1:49.7	So, a lot of interesting questions and I learned a lot from reflecting on many of them so thank you for sending them in. So thank you for sending them in. Okay, first one. In the moment to moment
1:59.8	meditation I can get overwhelmed by the confluence of the thought, like being angry at someone, a physical sensation, that is neck discomfort, and then the pressure of trying to note whether something is pleasant or unpleasant.
2:17.2	I did lost and just come back to the breath, but I feel like I'm falling short of the moment to moment
2:24.0	meditation practice.
2:26.3	Are there any steps you recommend?
2:29.7	So I think this is not an uncommon situation where sometimes it feels like so much is going on at the same time that it can get confused it.
2:40.0	We don't quite know where to put our attention.
2:45.1	So a couple of simple suggestions.
2:48.6	One is the basic guideline for practice and what we should be paying attention to is to become
2:56.4	mindful of whatever it's predominant in the moment. So even if it feels like
3:01.7	there are many things happening, the mind will be drawn to one aspect or another.
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