Ep. 207 – Impermanence, Satipatthana Sutta Series Pt. 4

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Goldstein offers insight on deepening our understanding of impermanence by growing our awareness of the constant change that surrounds us.

The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the fourth part of an in-depth 48-part weekly lecture series from Joseph Goldstein that delves into every aspect of the Satipatthana Sutta. If you are just now jumping into the Satipatthana Sutta series, listen to Insight Hour Ep. 203 to follow along and get the full experience!

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This time on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein explores:

Seeing the momentariness of phenomena
The liberating effect of presence moment awareness
The power of wholesome activities and the karmic effect of giving
Unreliability within that which is impermanent
Being dispassionate and not caught up in the grit of desire
The stories and drama we engage with in our lives
Witnessing changes in the world around us
Refining our perception of change
The mirror of the dhamma
Having unbroken confidence in the path of awakening
Consciousness in the process of dying

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This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed

“Somehow, we are so conditioned to count on things staying a certain way, of staying stable. Or, if they’re going to change, that they should only change for the better, the way we’d like things to be. But, that’s not how it is, there is no evidence to support that. All we have to do is open up and look around and pay attention in the most obvious of ways. This is not a subtle meditative attainment; it is all around us.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:00.0	When one deeply sees that all that is subject to arising is subject to cessation, we become
0:10.4	disenchanted. Becoming disenchanted.
0:13.4	Becoming disenchanted, we become dispassionate.
0:17.1	And through dispassioned, the mind is liberated. Oh, Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.
0:38.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
0:45.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
0:50.6	If you are interested in supporting this podcast, please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. Last week began looking at the refrain in the Satybitana Suta that comes after each of the specific meditation instructions.
1:16.6	The refrain arises 13 different times in the Suta.
1:21.3	And the first part of this is the teaching we talked about, which is looking at each of the
1:28.9	four mindful abidings, that is the mindful abidings, that is the mindful abiding of the body of feelings of mind and of
1:37.6	dummies internally, looking at them externally and both internally and externally.
1:47.0	Explo it a little bit how practicing in this way helps keep our awareness centered and balanced and also
1:58.7	opens us to the transforming wisdom of emptiness.
2:05.5	This evening go into a little bit
2:07.2	the second part of the refrain,
2:10.6	which tells us to abide contemplating the nature of arising, the nature of passing away,
2:20.0	and the nature of both arising and passing away,
2:25.0	of each object of awareness.
2:30.0	Contemplate the arising, the passing away,
2:32.0	and both the arising and the passing away, and both the arising and the passing away.
2:36.7	A lady Saeedow, who was one of the great Burmese masters of the turn of the last century, he was a great meditative master as well as a great scholar
2:49.3	of Buddhism.
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