Ep. 76 – Turning the Wheel of the Dharma: The Nature of Craving

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

Be Here Now Network

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

4.8 • 864 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this dharma talk, Joseph reflects on the nature of desire and explores the Buddha’s three domains of craving: sense pleasures, renewed existence, and non-existence.

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0:29.3	without the ads. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.
0:49.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
0:55.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
1:00.0	If you are interested in supporting this podcast, please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. Tonight I'd like to continue the exploration of the Buddha's first discourse, turning, setting in motion the wheel of the darma, turning the wheel of
1:28.4	darma. And if you remember he began this teaching without lining the middle way, that is avoiding
1:38.7	the extremes of sense indulgence on the one hand or self-modification on the other.
1:45.0	And he then outlined the great framework of understanding suffering and its end in his teachings of the four noble truths, those truths that truly
1:59.2	in noble our lives. The first of them is coming to fully understand the truth of Duka.
2:07.0	I talked about this at some length last week.
2:11.0	This evening will explore the second noble truth that is the origin or the cause of
2:18.0	Duka. What are the conditions for its arising?
2:30.0	Remembering that while Dukka is often translated as suffering in a more comprehensive and more generally applicable way it means that which is unsatisfying or unreliable or stressful. This is from the Buddha's words of his first discourse. He said,
2:49.7	now this Bekus is the noble truth of the origin of Dukah. It is this craving which leads to
2:58.5	renewed existence, accompanied by delight and lust, seeking delight here and there.
3:05.0	That is craving for sensual pleasures,
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