Ep. 91 – Arising and Passing Away
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
Be Here Now Network
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Joseph illuminates how witnessing the arising and passing away of phenomena can break the spell of enchantment and reorient our minds towards freedom.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Insight 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, |
| 0:33.2 | please go to be here now network.com |
| 0:36.4 | slash Joseph. Earlier in the retreat, we differentiated between three different aspects of the mind. |
| 0:58.1 | That is consciousness, |
| 1:00.9 | mindfulness, and Wisdom. |
| 1:05.0 | So consciousness is the simple act of knowing, |
| 1:09.0 | knowing different sense objects, which includes objects of mind. |
| 1:15.0 | And this is just the ordinary knowing as we move throughout the day. |
| 1:20.0 | It's not particularly reflective. |
| 1:25.0 | It's often conditioned by many of our reactions. |
| 1:31.0 | It's what I called Black Lab or Golden Retriever Consciousness. You know, if you just watch |
| 1:40.8 | them move through the day just driven you know by the sense impressions. We have a lot |
| 1:50.3 | of black lab consciousness going on. And for human beings it's often |
| 1:56.8 | characterized by being lost in thought very often. So this is ordinary consciousness, simple knowing. |
| 2:07.0 | Mindfulness is when we become aware that we're knowing. |
| 2:13.3 | And with this mindful aware that we're knowing. |
| 2:14.3 | And with this mindful awareness, we're no longer so caught up |
| 2:19.8 | and carried away by the stories of our mind by that inner narration that's going on so often. |
| 2:29.0 | We're mindful enough to see and to observe what is going on within us and also in the world around us. |
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