Ep. 252 – Equanimity: A Direct Path to Liberation
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In part 2 of this Q&A session, Joseph Goldstein explores how to reach equanimity through investigating our mental states, recognizing when to let go, and approaching suffering skillfully.
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In this episode, Joseph Goldstein offers his perspective on:
- Letting go of obsessive thoughts through insight and investigation
- How the seven factors of enlightenment work together to support awakening
- Knowing when to let go and when to investigate experiences for deeper wisdom
- Staying open to emotions while avoiding unskillful reactivity
- Social activism on the Buddhist path and engaging with the world in a skillful way
- Finding inner balance in the midst of turmoil, conflict, and suffering
- Maintaining a deep historical perspective on the rise and fall of all civilizations
- Remembering how small our concerns are in the face of the stars and the vastness of all things
- How equanimity enables us to be peaceful, to connect with suffering, and to offer compassion
- Considering if we can approach daily life with a motivation to help others and the world
- Going into the depths of non-self and allowing our life to be a representation of compassionate action
This talk was recorded at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center and distributed by Dharma Seed
“In the midst of everything that’s going on, to come back to some greater place of equanimity, one way is just a deep historical perspective on things. This stuff has been going on forever. It’s not new to this time. It’s just part of the long historical unfolding and is inevitable. It’s not an aberration, this has been happening, always.” – Joseph Goldstein
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| 1:12.7 | There's a whole range of ways we can just figure out how to extricate ourselves from unwholesome thought patterns. |
| 1:28.6 | You know, whether it's enough, |
| 1:29.8 | or Dead End or Cowboy Dahmer or whatever. |
| 1:35.3 | Played, you know, and explore it and see for yourselves what will work. |
| 1:40.6 | But it's helpful to develop some skills and some tools |
| 1:46.2 | for how to |
| 1:48.2 | come out of |
| 1:51.1 | recurring unwholesome patterns. |
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