Defining the nature of Bodhicitta, Joseph Goldstein explains that enlightenment is inevitable when compassion and emptiness coexist.

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This time on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein thoughtfully articulates:

• Bodhicitta: the heart-mind of awakening and working for the benefit of all beings
• Living in the world while still remembering the truth of non-self and impermanence
• The beauty of selflessness embodied through Dipa Ma’s life and teachings
• Regularly reflecting on impermanence as both a reality check and a spiritual practice
• The nature of the mind as intrinsically empty and naturally radiant
• Coming out of our mind-drama and entering into the empty luminosity of the present moment
• Compassionate responsiveness to the needs of others
• Forgiveness as one of the most profound ways to respond with open-hearted compassion

This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed

“This responsiveness is compassion, not as a meditative stance, but rather it is the responsiveness of an open heart, of an open mind. It can show itself, this compassionate responsiveness, in so many different ways. It can manifest very beautifully as forgiveness.” –Joseph Goldstein

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Responding to a variety of dharma questions on meditation, effort, and impermanence, Joseph Goldstein explores the mystery of consciousness.

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This week on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein responds to questions on:

• The benefits of doing walking meditation versus traditional seated meditation
• Cutting through our conceptual overlay and simply having raw experiences
• Passive voice construction: removing the self as subject when narrating the world around us
• Changing “let it go” to “let it be” when we are struggling to let go
• Being in the flow of changing experiences, the natural arising and passing away of all things
• The fine line of wholesome energy/effort versus striving and struggling
• Realizing the emptiness of thoughts and the suffering they bring to us
• The first experience of nirvana, ‘the zero’, and uprooting the view of self

This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed

“This is the mystery of consciousness. There’s nothing there tangible to find; no color, no form, it can’t be found. Yet, the knowing is happening. It’s this union of emptiness and knowing.” –Joseph Goldstein

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Illuminating different ways to free the mind, Joseph Goldstein integrates relative and ultimate truth, revealing the emptiness of thoughts.

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This time on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein discusses

• Integrating the elements of both relative and ultimate truth in our lives
• The natural compassion that emerges when we let go of self-identification
• Why our perception of reality isn’t always reliable or accurate
• Our attachment to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant
• Considering if the mind can remain unafflicted while the body is suffering
• Shifting awareness from what we want to how the wanting mind feels
• Our capability to train the mind in a way that leads to greater freedom
• Letting thoughts arise without interference or judgment
• Developing nonreactivity through seeing how quickly thoughts arise and pass
• Realizing that the past and future are only constructs of the mind

This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed

“Our only experience of the past and future is as a thought in the mind. This is tremendously liberating to see because most of us carry the concepts of the past and future as a huge burden in our lives. All the worries, anxieties, hopes, fears—all of those are arising because we’re not seeing that they’re just concepts.” –Joseph Goldstein

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