Ep. 67 – Factors of Awakening: Investigation
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Joseph Goldstein wields the sword of wisdom as he contemplates the Buddha’s second factor of awakening, investigation of the Dhammas.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour. |
| 0:18.0 | This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery. |
| 0:24.0 | Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness. |
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| 0:33.0 | please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. |
| 0:39.0 | Last week we began the discussion of the seven factors of awakening. |
| 0:48.0 | And in Polly the term for these factors is Bojanga. |
| 0:55.0 | And they're called factors of awakening because they lead the mind or inclined the mind, |
| 1:02.0 | guide the mind towards Nibana, towards freedom. |
| 1:09.6 | These factors are functions or activities of the mind of our own minds. They're not something |
| 1:16.4 | outside of ourselves. And each one of them has a unique contribution to make in the process of awakening, in the process of freeing |
| 1:27.4 | ourselves, and they form a progression. |
| 1:31.2 | Each one leads to the one that follows. |
| 1:35.0 | Mindfulness is the first of these factors of awakening. |
| 1:40.0 | We discussed it in some detail last week. It's the one that sets in motion all of the |
| 1:49.2 | rest. It's both the foundation for and it sets the wheel of the factors of enlightenment rolling. |
| 1:57.0 | This is from the Anapanasati suta. |
| 2:02.0 | These are the words of the Buddha. |
| 2:04.0 | And how Bicus do the four foundations of mindfulness |
| 2:09.0 | developed and cultivated |
| 2:12.0 | fulfill the seven Enlightenment factors. |
| 2:15.0 | Bicus, on whatever occasion a Bicu abides, contemplating the body as body or feelings as feelings, mind is mind, |
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