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Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

Ep. 261 – Gradual Cultivation in Buddhist Practice

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Goldstein explores gradual cultivation, highlighting that even if we are suddenly awakened, we still must have an ongoing practice to work with hindrances and ingrained habits.

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This week on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein discusses:

  • The areas of life where clinging shows up most 
  • How clinging to sensory pleasures is so embedded in our culture
  • Lightening up for enlightenment and not taking ourselves so seriously 
  • How a sense of humor can benefit our practice 
  • Unhelpful attachment to view and opinion
  • The unity of clarity and emptiness (self-existing wakefulness)
  • The Buddhist meaning of unborn/unformed 
  • Uprooting of the view of self with the understanding that there is still more work to do
  • Having an ongoing, gradual cultivation of skillful means 

This episode was originally published on Dharmaseed and recorded at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, a non-profit organization founded by renowned meditation teachers Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg to integrate Buddhist study and practice.

“Very often, people can have genuine realization and have a really deep understanding, and then get attached to that as if everything is done. So very often these folks can get engaged in skillful behavior, thinking it’s all coming from their deep realization, it’s really coming from all the work that still needs to be done.” –Joseph Goldstein

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0:00.0

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0:30.4

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for the free event on Tuesday, May 26.

1:10.0

Very often people can have genuine realization

1:13.6

and have some really deep understanding

1:19.6

and then get attached to that

1:24.6

as if everything is done. And so very often,

1:31.3

these folks can then get engaged in some rather unskilful behavior,

1:37.3

thinking it's all coming from their deep realization,

1:43.3

but it's not. It's really coming from all the work that still needs to be done.

1:47.0

Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.

2:06.6

This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.

2:12.6

Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness. If you are interested in supporting this podcast,

2:21.3

please go to BehereNownetwork.com slash Joseph.

2:26.3

So last night, as I was talking a little bit about the evolution of one Dharma, my idea of it anyway, started out with that phrase metaphysics as skillful means.

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