Joseph Goldstein: It's ok not to know

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🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Co-founder of Insight Meditation Society (IMS) and author of several popular books on Buddhism, Joseph Goldstein has been a legend in the world of mindfulness for nearly half a century. But when he returned to US from India in the early ‘70s, penniless and without a job prospect, he had no way of knowing what his future held. This week, Joseph tells the story of how he learned to keep himself open to all possibilities and embrace the uncomfortable feeling of not-knowing.

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0:00.0	Hi listeners, October the 10th is World Mental Health Day, so all month will be sharing
0:06.5	resources to help you best take care of yourself.
0:11.1	Sleep plays a huge role in our mental health journeys, so I want to recommend a show that
0:16.6	helps me fall asleep when I'm restless.
0:19.5	It's called Sleep With Me, and it's like the playful cousin of a meditative story.
0:24.8	The one who tells surreal, meandering stories you can't help but fall asleep to, but yet
0:31.2	it's encouraged.
0:32.9	Sleep With Me adds some extra variety to your relaxing listening to keep you company during
0:38.3	the week.
0:39.3	Check it out as you get ready for bed tonight.
0:43.0	And sleep with me wherever you get your podcasts.
1:02.3	Sitting at the front of this room, I feel like an orchestra conductor.
1:07.8	If people are dozing off, I'll riff something humours.
1:12.3	People need to quiet down, we settle into silence.
1:18.2	I'm conducting the energy of the room.
1:23.9	This is what I'm supposed to be doing.
1:38.5	By the time he was 30, Joseph Goldstein felt confident that his mindfulness practice
1:44.7	would be critically important to the rest of his life.
1:48.8	But when he left India in 1974 and returned full time to the US, he had no idea what the
1:56.9	rest of that life would look like.
2:00.1	This week, Joseph tells us how he endeavoured to keep himself open to all possibilities, while
2:07.2	learning to be okay with that uncomfortable feeling of not knowing.
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