Ep. 27 - Transforming Afflictive Emotions

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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

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🗓️ 2 November 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week, on Insight Hour, Joseph discusses the Buddha's lesson of the Luminous Mind and how it is obscured by our afflictive emotions. How is it that the natural clarity the mind can become so easily clouded? Joseph goes deep in exploring the three steps essential to overcoming these afflictive emotions in which we all get caught up. 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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0:00.0	The Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour. This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
0:27.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
0:33.0	If you are interested in supporting this podcast,
0:36.0	please go to be here now network.com
0:40.0	slash Joseph.
0:55.0	The most important teachings of the Buddha is his teaching on the nature of mind.
1:02.0	And so quite a famous few lines. He said, this mind bicous and again remember bicous in its broadest sense
1:06.9	means anyone who is walking on the path so he's really talking to us.
1:13.0	This mind bicos is luminous, but it is clouded by visiting defilements.
1:20.0	So what does this mean?
1:22.0	The mind is luminous, but it is clouded by visiting the
1:27.0	filaments. What does this mean in our experience? You know, we hear a sound.
1:35.0	It's very simple.
1:35.9	There's just the knowing of the sound
1:38.8	or feel a breath or feel the sensations of a movement.
1:44.2	In the simplicity of just knowing,
1:47.6	there's no problem.
1:49.9	It's in that respect that the mind is luminous.
1:52.4	Luminous here means the knowing capacity,
1:56.9	the capacity of the mind to know.
2:00.8	The nature of this mind, the nature of knowing, the nature of consciousness in and of itself
2:08.9	is open, it's clear, it's unobstructed, it simply knows.
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