Ep. 227 – The Six Sense Bases, Satipatthana Sutta Series Pt. 24

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Goldstein explores the six internal and external sense bases of consciousness, explaining its selfless and contingent nature.

The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the twenty-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!

This week, Joseph offers wisdom on:

Mindfulness of the patterns of experience
Internal and external sense spheres
The mind as a sixth sense
The way we attach the self to all we experience
Seeing objects as being conditioned and selfless
Our sense organs and paying attention to how we experience senses
The contingent nature of consciousness
Freeing the mind by becoming disenchanted
Recognizing defilements when they arise, and letting them go
How we often push the river of experience rather than allowing it to flow
Maintaining openness of the mind without preferences

“What’s difficult is to see all of these sense objects and the sense bases, to see and understand them as being conditioned, selfless, not I, not mine, not belonging to anyone. Not only seeing the sense object and sense base as selfless, but seeing the knowing of them as selfless.”– Joseph Goldstein

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0:00.0	There's a universe of difference between the mind that wants, the mind that's leaning into experience,
0:14.0	the mind that's leaning into experience, and a true openness without preference.
0:20.0	Right there is our environment. and a true openness without preference.
0:26.8	Right there is our involvement or our entanglement,
0:31.0	our enchantment with suffering and freedom.
0:33.8	That's how big the difference is. Yeah. Francis.
0:51.8	Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Insight Hour.
0:57.7	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
1:03.1	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
1:06.9	If you are interested in supporting this podcast, please go to beherenownetwork.com slash Joseph.
1:18.6	Some months, this last winter, I was sitting here at the forest refuge for a few months.
1:26.1	I like being on that side.
1:32.8	It's a great place to practice.
1:36.1	So as many of you know, over the past few years of teaching here at the Forest
1:43.1	Refuge, I have been giving a series of talks on the Satypatana Suta.
1:49.2	This is the discourse the Buddha gave,
1:53.4	outlining or discussing the four foundations of mindfulness.
1:59.9	And it's this essential, a very important discourse in the teachings, because the Buddha
2:06.7	declared it in a very unequivocal way as being the direct path to awakening.
2:13.5	So I'll just read from the very first paragraph of the Suta, where he says Bikus.
2:20.7	And Bikus in the context of the teachings means anyone who is practicing for awakening.
2:27.8	So he's really addressing us.
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