Ep. 253 – No Foothold: Integrating Relative & Ultimate Truth In Our Lives
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Illuminating different ways to free the mind, Joseph Goldstein integrates relative and ultimate truth, revealing the emptiness of thoughts.
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This time on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein discusses
- Integrating the elements of both relative and ultimate truth in our lives
- The natural compassion that emerges when we let go of self-identification
- Why our perception of reality isn’t always reliable or accurate
- Our attachment to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant
- Considering if the mind can remain unafflicted while the body is suffering
- Shifting awareness from what we want to how the wanting mind feels
- Our capability to train the mind in a way that leads to greater freedom
- Letting thoughts arise without interference or judgment
- Developing nonreactivity through seeing how quickly thoughts arise and pass
- Realizing that the past and future are only constructs of the mind
This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed
“Our only experience of the past and future is as a thought in the mind. This is tremendously liberating to see because most of us carry the concepts of the past and future as a huge burden in our lives. All the worries, anxieties, hopes, fears—all of those are arising because we’re not seeing that they’re just concepts.” –Joseph Goldstein
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| 1:03.7 | What makes the Buddhist teaching so powerful is recognition and pointing out that because |
| 1:15.6 | our perceptions are conditioned by our mental habits, we can also train our habits and train |
| 1:24.4 | our perceptions in a way that leads to greater freedom. |
| 1:49.0 | Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour. This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery. |
| 1:56.1 | Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness. |
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| 2:24.8 | I'd like to speak about some of the things that were of interest to me on my own recent retreat. |
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