Simplifying our daily practice into bare knowing, Joseph Goldstein instructs us on external mindfulness and noticing our reactions.

The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the fourth part of an in-depth 48-part weekly lecture series from Joseph Goldstein that delves into every aspect of the Satipatthana Sutta. If you are just now jumping into the Satipatthana Sutta series, listen to Insight Hour Ep. 203 to follow along and get the full experience!

In this episode, Joseph Goldstein mindfully explains:

• The comprehensive nature of mindfulness practice
• Going beyond the division of self and other
• Insight from inference and inductive reasoning
• Contemplating the feelings and mind-states of others
• Being mindful of our reactions to other people's positive and negative feelings
• Keeping our lives in balance by not being overly self-absorbed
• Contemplating both internal and external mindfulness so that we can see phenomena objectively
• The impermanent nature of all feelings
• Thoughts as the trigger for emotions to arise
• Staying free in the flow of changing experience
• The storytelling the mind does versus the Buddha's instruction on bare knowledge
• The mantra 'it's already here' for awareness of bare knowing

Don’t forget to grab a copy of the book Joseph references throughout this series, Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization, HERE

This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed

“Contemplating externally not only keeps us in balance so we don’t have this total self-absorption, but we’re paying attention in some way, we’re enlarging the context of our practice. It also helps keep us attuned to how our actions are affecting others so we aren’t just lost in what we’re doing. We’re mindful of the feelings and mind states externally so we see, we’re attuned, we’re aware, in a mindful, non-reactive, non-judgmental way of these states as they arise in other people. We’re paying attention.” – Joseph Goldstein

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Rather than trying to overcome unwholesome mind states, Joseph Goldstein guides us to simply be mindful of the mind as it is being influenced.

The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the fourth part of an in-depth 48-part weekly lecture series from Joseph Goldstein that delves into every aspect of the Satipatthana Sutta. If you are just now jumping into the Satipatthana Sutta series, listen to Insight Hour Ep. 203 to follow along and get the full experience!

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In this episode, Joseph Goldstein mindfully explains:

• The three unwholesome roots (lustful mind, angry mind, diluted mind)
• Being aware of the absence of unwholesome mind-states
• How positive attributes are present within the absence of the defilements
• Not judging ourselves or being reactive to negative mind-states
• Focusing on which states should be cultivated and which should be let go of
• Measuring the moral worth of an action by the intention behind it
• Difficult mind-states as part of the path rather than an innate problem
• The distracted and contracted mind
• How mindfulness of our mind is the path to freedom
• Simply knowing each state for what it is (not-self, insubstantial, impermanent)
• Asking ourselves what is happening and taking the time to acknowledge it
• How sense pleasures and moods deceive the mind
• The process of liberation as short moments many times

Don’t forget to grab a copy of the book Joseph references throughout this series, Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization, HERE

This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed

“It’s not as if somehow we need to have our mind completely freed of all of these unwholesome states in order to proceed. The Buddha is saying that mindfulness of them when they arise is the path to freedom.” – Joseph Goldstein

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Describing the hidden danger in seeking happiness through sense pleasure, Joseph Goldstein outlines worldy versus unworldly feelings.

The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the fourth part of an in-depth 48-part weekly lecture series from Joseph Goldstein that delves into every aspect of the Satipatthana Sutta. If you are just now jumping into the Satipatthana Sutta series, listen to Insight Hour Ep. 203 to follow along and get the full experience!

Don’t forget to grab a copy of the book Joseph references throughout this series, Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization, HERE

This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/insighthour and get on your way to being your best self.

In this episode of Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein mindfully explains:

• The feelings that arise during renunciation
• Non-addictedness versus deprivation
• The hidden dangers in happiness from worldly feelings
• The unreliability of pleasant emotions
• Beneficial pleasures versus un-beneficial pleasures
• Worldy and unworldly neutral feelings
• Genorosity as easy access to an unworldly pleasant feeling
• Non-sensual joy when we practice compassion and metta
• Exploring feelings as they become predominant
• Noticing our conditioned responses to our emotions
• Utilizing mindfulness to rest in simple awareness

This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed

“There’s a hidden danger in this addiction to sense pleasure, of relying for pleasant worldly feelings for our happiness to the degree that we become very attached to them and then suffer when they change, as we know they do. The impermanence of them becomes a source of unreliability.” – Joseph Goldstein

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