Ep. 29 - Cutting Through Identification with Consciousness

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Joseph talks about the concept of self and what we can do to move past the identification with our consciousness that keeps us in our loop. The idea of self is the root of much suffering. Through practice, though, we can find ways to free ourselves of the 'I' and helps other to do the same. 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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0:29.3	without the ads. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour. This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
0:58.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness. If you are interested in supporting
1:05.8	this podcast, please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. We live largely in the realm of our concepts and to a large extent they overlay most of our experience.
1:30.0	We also discussed how the concept of self, which is the root cause of so much suffering in our lives,
1:42.0	not only in our own lives, but in the world, that this concept of
1:48.2	self arises or comes out of a superficial perception of our experience,
1:56.3	superficial perception of this mind and body.
2:02.2	So Guy elaborated on this quite beautifully in his talk on the five aggregates, on the emptiness of the aggregates.
2:10.0	And the importance of understanding this is highlighted in a teaching
2:17.7	by the great Tibetan master Dilko Kense-Rimpache. And it really points to the heart of what we are doing here. He said
2:30.0	the idea of an enduring self has kept you wandering helplessly in the realms of
2:37.6	some sorrow for countless past lifetimes. It is the very thing that now prevents you from liberating yourself and others
2:47.8	from conditioned existence. If you could simply let easy to be free others too. So that one thought of I, you would find it easy to be free and to free others too.
3:01.6	So that's our three others too.
3:06.1	So that's our challenge, that's our task and that's our practice.
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