Ep. 216 – Mindfulness Of Mind, Satipatthana Sutta Series Pt. 13

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Rather than trying to overcome unwholesome mind states, Joseph Goldstein guides us to simply be mindful of the mind as it is being influenced.

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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In this episode, Joseph Goldstein mindfully explains:

The three unwholesome roots (lustful mind, angry mind, diluted mind)
Being aware of the absence of unwholesome mind-states
How positive attributes are present within the absence of the defilements
Not judging ourselves or being reactive to negative mind-states
Focusing on which states should be cultivated and which should be let go of
Measuring the moral worth of an action by the intention behind it
Difficult mind-states as part of the path rather than an innate problem
The distracted and contracted mind
How mindfulness of our mind is the path to freedom
Simply knowing each state for what it is (not-self, insubstantial, impermanent)
Asking ourselves what is happening and taking the time to acknowledge it
How sense pleasures and moods deceive the mind
The process of liberation as short moments many times

Don’t forget to grab a copy of the book Joseph references throughout this series, Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization, HERE

This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed

“It’s not as if somehow we need to have our mind completely freed of all of these unwholesome states in order to proceed. The Buddha is saying that mindfulness of them when they arise is the path to freedom.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:00.0	We cannot always or even often control outcomes, but we can take responsibility for our own parts and minds.
0:17.0	And this is precisely what this third foundation of mindfulness is teaching us to do. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Insight Hour.
0:46.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
0:52.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
0:58.0	If you are interested in supporting this podcast,
1:01.0	please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph.
1:07.0	In this series of talks on the Satipitama Suta, we've discussed in some detail starting
1:18.9	last year the mindfulness of the body and now in these last couple of weeks
1:27.0	mindfulness of feelings. Tonight I'd like to move on to the third contemplation in the Satipitana Suta, which is contemplating
1:42.0	or mindful of the mind.
1:46.0	It's again into weaving elements of venerable Analeo's
1:51.9	very clear analysis from his book, Saffa Petana, the direct path to realization.
1:59.5	So the Buddha begins this section of the Suta with a rhetorical question. He says, and how bikus?
2:10.4	And again bikus here means anyone who is practicing. And how Bicus here means anyone who is practicing?
2:14.0	And how Bicus does one in regard to the mind
2:18.0	contemplate the mind?
2:20.0	And then he goes on to answer.
2:24.0	One knows a lustful minds to be lustful,
2:30.0	and a mind without lust to be without lust.
2:34.0	One knows an angry mind to be angry and one without anger
2:39.0	to be without anger.
2:41.0	One knows a diluted mind to be diluted and one without delusion to be
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