Ep. 82 – Desire and Its End
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Joseph Goldstein examines the true nature of craving, how sense pleasures provide a false sense of happiness, and how we can practice the end of desire on a moment-to-moment basis.
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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. |
| 0:30.0 | If you are interested in supporting this podcast, |
| 0:33.0 | please go to be here now end of the whole path. |
| 0:49.0 | Where it's going and how we can actually taste the fruition of the path all along the way. |
| 1:02.4 | If it's possible to actually touch or taste the peace and the freedom |
| 1:09.0 | that comes in the fulfillment of the path. |
| 1:15.0 | So the French philosopher and political activists and |
| 1:17.8 | mystics among while, she wrote, |
| 1:22.1 | what people are looking for is not wrong, but they are looking for it in the wrong place. |
| 1:30.0 | And when I read that, just resonated so deeply with me and my understanding of the work we're all doing. |
| 1:40.0 | Because although we may call it by different names, we could call it peace or awakening or |
| 1:46.2 | enlightenment, we can love, really what we're all looking for is happiness, some deep abiding fulfillment and completion. |
| 1:59.3 | The problem though is that mostly people are looking for this kind of happiness in the wrong place. |
| 2:07.0 | Misdirected. |
| 2:10.0 | And this problem is highlighted in one of the teaching stories of Mullenazoudin, who was a |
| 2:20.8 | Sufi teaching figure and a combination, |
| 2:24.0 | wise man, mad man, fool. |
| 2:27.0 | And there are lots of stories and you probably recognize this one. |
| 2:30.0 | It's quite a well-known one. |
| 2:34.0 | So Molinazardin one time was just scrounging around under a lamppost looking for something. |
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