Joseph Goldstein shares how unremitting mindfulness and continuous investigation of our mental states will lead us to liberation.

The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the twenty-eighth 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!

This time on Insight Hour, Joseph pursues these topics:

• Establishing unremitting mindfulness
• Investigating and examining our mental states
• How truth discerning wisdom liberates the mind
• The three universal characteristics of experience
• Cultivating wisdom through investigation of the dhamma
• Looking at the motivation behind our actions of body, speech, or mind
• The two kinds of happiness according to the Buddha
• Investigating ourselves when we are in a storm of emotions
• How clear recognition can be enough to help us let go
• Discerning the difference between the knowing and the object
• How a single moment of truth-discerning wisdom can change us

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

“By understanding that it is wisdom that illuminates what is true, and that we cultivate wisdom through investigation of the dhamma, we can begin to appreciate the very broad range of skillful means and methods that are in different Buddhist traditions for accomplishing this inquiry.“– Joseph Goldstein

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Outlining the crucial importance of the Buddha’s seven awakening factors, Joseph explains the promise of our practice.

The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the twenty-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!

This week on Insight Hour, Joseph provides wisdom on:

• The seven treasures, or factors of awakening, of the Buddha
• How the factors of awakening act as anti-hindrances
• Mindfulness, wisdom, energy, rapture, calm, concentration, and equanimity
• The promise and purpose of our practice
• Priming the pump of the enlightened mind
• A deeper dive into the first factor of awakening: mindfulness
• Calling to mind what is skillful and what is not
• Bare attention and clear comprehension
• Knowing the purpose behind an action, and if it is beneficial

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

“The Buddha called these factors anti-hindrances because they counteract those forces in the mind that keep us in delusion. It’s sort of like anti-freeze; anti-hindrances, they keep our minds from getting congealed or frozen.“– Joseph Goldstein

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Teaching listeners to become masters over their perceptions, Joseph Goldstein describes the four great hallucinations of the mind.

The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the twenty-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 helps listeners understand:

• The latent tendencies of the mind which condition our perceptions
• How basic sense impressions can be mistaken
• The four great hallucinations of perceptions as outlined by the Buddha
• Taking what is impermanent to be permanent
• The root of suffering
• Taking what is not self to be self
• Having mastery over our perceptions
• Ways of perceiving that lead to liberation
• How moods deceive the mind

This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed

“A good feedback for us for when we’re lost in this hallucination of perception, taking what’s impermanent to be permanent, is whenever we notice clinging or attachment. When there’s clinging or attachment what that means is that in those moments we are not seeing clearly and we are not experiencing deeply the truth of change, the truth of impermanence. We are diluted into thinking that a particular experience in some way is worth holding onto.“– Joseph Goldstein

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