Ep. 179 – Relative and Ultimate Bodhicitta Part I

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein · Aug 30, 2023 · 57m

Joseph Goldstein discusses enlightenment through the lens of the aspirational mental quality of bodhicitta – the awakened heart.

This dharma talk from June 8, 2015, was recorded at the Insight Meditation Society and originally published on Dharma Seed

In this lecture, Joseph:

Teaches us that there are two understandings of bodhicitta: relative bodhicitta, which is compassion, and ultimate bodhicitta, which is selflessness

Highlights the spiritual importance of cultivating both compassion and selflessness

Ruminates on the challenges of living in our conventional, ordinarily understood reality…