Ep. 26 – The Four Mind Changing Reflections

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Joseph asks, "How can we wake up from the dream of our normal waking state and come into a true wakefulness?" In this episode of, Insight Hour, Joseph gives discusses Bardo and delivers an insightful lesson on The Four Mind Changing Reflections. "When we are just resting, the empty, open, aware nature of the mind becomes evident. The non-clinging nature of awareness reveals itself in these Bardo moments." - Joseph Goldstein See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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1:17.0	The word Buddha as as you know, means the awakened one.
1:27.5	And for many of us, the goal or the aspiration
1:31.5	in our Dorma practice is just this awakening from the sleep of ignorance and of delusion. And we all get a glimpse of delusion.
1:48.0	And we all get a glimpse of this, just a glimpse, every morning when we wake up, when we wake up from a deep sleep or from a dream state, we come into a waking
1:57.0	consciousness which somehow feels more connected, more real, more vivid.
2:05.0	But the Buddha pointed out that even in our normal waking state,
2:11.7	we're really still asleep because we're often lost in and identified with all the various
2:21.3	habit patterns and conditioning of our minds.
2:25.0	You know, and even after these first few days of the retreat,
2:30.0	I'm sure you've noticed how often we get carried away on trains of association,
2:37.0	you know, desires and plans and judgments and future thoughts and past thoughts are simply a stream of random thoughts.
2:48.0	And we hop on these trains of association in our minds.
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