Ep. 256 – The Experience of Consciousness: Question About Cultivating Awareness & Focus On the Buddhist Path

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein · Dec 11, 2025 · 1h 5m

Joseph Goldstein responds to questions on spiritual craving, mental focus, and what it truly means to become aware of awareness.

This time on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein mindfully explains:

Bringing your daily life into your spiritual practice

Mindfulness of seeing: focusing on the seeing itself rather than on what we are looking at

Resting in open, non-reactive spaciousness

The cognizing power of emptiness and realizing that there is nothing to know

Keeping the mind steady and how concentration deepens insight

Understanding both relative and ultimate reality

Defining dukkha as the…