Ep. 220 – The Laziness Trap, Satipatthana Sutta Series Pt. 17

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Employing the Satipatthana Sutta, Joseph Goldstein shows us how to overcome the mental states of sloth and torpor.

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!

In this episode, Joseph instructs listeners on:

The mind states of sloth and torpor
Defining sloth as a sluggishness of mind which dispels energy
Noticing when sloth and torpor are present in us
How sloth and torpor can spread via unwise attention to boredom and depression
Watching the thinking patterns we have around slothful mind-states
How sloth and torpor can signal us to other hidden emotions
Over-consumption and being attentive to what we put into our bodies
The benefit and value of the eight precepts
Having a balance of both concentration and energy
Deepening our insight into the impermanence of the hindrances
Mindfulness as the most basic strategy for overcoming laziness
Adding in more objects to our meditation as an antidote to the sinking mind
Being alert even in times of low energy as practice for conscious dying
Finding inspiration in reading the dhamma, listening to a recording, or chanting

This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed

“Mindfulness, here, is deepening our insight into the impermanence of the hindrances. If we can stay with it, we see that they come and go by themselves. We don’t have to fulfill the desire, we don’t have to act on the anger, we don’t have to indulge the sleepiness, in order for them to go, we just need to stay with it and we’ll see their changing nature simply through the awareness of them.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:29.6	without the ads. And the Buddha said frequently giving unwise attention, giving unwise or careless attention to certain states, like discontent, like boredom,
0:50.2	like laziness, like drowsiness caused by overeating like depression or a sluggish state of mind it's
1:01.6	when these states arise and we give unwise attention to them, that is the cause,
1:08.8	that unwise attention is the cause for sloth and torpor to arise and spread. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Insight Hour.
1:35.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
1:41.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
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1:57.0	The last two weeks we've discussed mindfulness of the dama with regard to the first two hindrances, that is desire and aversion.
2:12.0	Tonight I'd like to examine the third of the hindrances,
2:16.0	and it's one that at different times can be very strong in our practice and in our lives. These are the mental states, the
2:28.3	mental factors of sloth and torper. Now these two factors,
2:35.2	sloth and Torper, are actually distinct mental qualities, but they're closely
2:41.8	related and they always arise in conjunction with one another.
2:47.0	So we'll look just very briefly at the distinction between the So this is from the Satipitana Suta. This is the instruction about working with these states.
3:07.4	If sloth and torpor is present, one knows there is sloth and torpor present in me. If they are not present, one knows,
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