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Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
Joseph Goldstein has been a leading light for the practice of Insight and Loving Kindness meditation since his days in India and Burma where he studied with eminent masters of the tradition. In his podcast, The Insight Hour, Joseph delivers these essential mindfulness teachings in a practical and down to earth way that illuminates the practice through his own personal experience and wonderful story telling.
Episodes
- Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
Ep. 148 – Refraining From Unwholesome Activities
Joseph Goldstein explores the 10 unwholesome activities and actions of the body, speech, and mind that the Buddha advises us all to refrain from for our own…
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Ep. 147 – The Suffering That Comes With Wanting
Joseph Goldstein explores the suffering that comes with wanting, the three types of desire, and why our investigation is to notice the ways the mind gets…
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Ep. 146 – The Buddha’s Life and Journey
Joseph Goldstein explores the Buddha’s life and journey, reflecting on the four stages of this mythological unfolding of awakening and how we can all achieve…
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Ep. 145 – Selflessness: Uncommon Sense
Joseph Goldstein provides an uncommon sense view of selflessness to help us understand the often vexing notion of no-self and talks about how we can be free…
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Ep. 144 – The Law of Karma
Joseph Goldstein takes a deep dive into the law of karma, how it affects us in our practice and daily lives, and how can we apply it in a way that it becomes…
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Ep. 143 – Transforming Fear
Joseph Goldstein talks about the nature of fear, how it’s conditioned in the mind, how we can work with it, and embracing the possibility of transforming fear…
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Ep. 142 – Doubt, Restlessness, & Sloth
Joseph Goldstein explores the mental factors of doubt, restlessness, and sloth, which are three hindrances that can cause a lack of vision and knowledge, and…
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Ep. 141 – Metta: Preparing the Ground
Joseph Goldstein explores the quality of Metta, or lovingkindness, and offers advice on preparing the ground from which Metta can grow and flourish. This…
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Ep. 140 – Carrying Practice Into the World
In this dharma talk, Joseph Goldstein describes the art of carrying our practice into the world through training in the areas of Right Effort, concentration…
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Ep. 139 – Understanding Desire
In helping us with understanding desire, Joseph Goldstein explores the three types of desire that the Buddha spoke of and offers several ways of working with…
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Ep. 138 – The Secret Name of Things
Joseph Goldstein explores the fabricated concept of self, the secret name of things beneath our perception, the illusion of solidity, and the deeper reality…
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Ep. 137 – The Nature of Struggle
Joseph Goldstein talks about the nature of struggle and why working with experiences of pain and difficult states of mind can be a boon for our mindfulness…
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Ep. 136 – Pain and Trust
Joseph Goldstein explores how to understand pain, how to relate to it, and how to use it, plus he talks about the quality of trust and learning to trust the…
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Ep. 135 - Manifesting Our Intentions
Joseph Goldstein teaches us to manifest our intentions of goodwill and loving-kindness through wholesome actions. "If we plant a seed, the seed is going to…
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Ep. 134 – The Simplicity of Practice
Joseph Goldstein reviews the basic instructions in the service of understanding the simplicity of practice, and then answers questions about death, clinging…
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Ep. 133 – The Power of Restraint
In this dharma talk, Joseph Goldstein explores how the power of restraint can help create the space and softness in ourselves to manifest a deeper level of…
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Ep. 132 - A Map of Wisdom Part 2: Magic Show of Consciousness
Joseph Goldstein continues unfolding his map of wisdom by touching on the magic show of consciousness, the law of karma, dependent origination, and cultivating…
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Ep. 131 – A Map of Wisdom Part 1: Everything Changes
Joseph is back with a brand new Dharma talk series piecing together essential teachings of the Buddha into an accessible map of wisdom. This podcast is…
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Ep. 130 – Essential Buddhism Part 5: The Truth of Suffering
The “Essential Buddhism” series continues with this 1974 dharma talk focused on the Four Noble Truths and how we must face the truth of suffering to walk the…
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Ep. 129 – Turning the Mind Toward Dharma
Joseph Goldstein explores four reflections from the Buddhist tradition that are profound tools of practice for turning the mind toward the Dharma. This podcast…
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Ep. 128 – Essential Buddhism Part 4: Look at the Moon, Not at the Finger
The “Essential Buddhism” series returns with a talk from Joseph Goldstein about karma and dependent origination, and a Q&A session that reminds us to look at…
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Ep. 127 – Concepts & Realities
Continuing to explore the themes discussed in our previous episode, Joseph is back with an enlivening discourse on concepts and realities, the root cause of…
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Ep. 126 – Essential Buddhism Part 3: Plato's Cave & The Four Ultimate Realities
The Insight Hour podcast's "Essential Buddhism" series returns with lessons we can learn from the parable of Plato’s Cave and the Buddhist teachings on the…
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Ep. 125 – Mindfulness of Mind
In this recording from the Insight Meditation Society, Joseph Goldstein focuses on the third foundation of mindfulness: the mindfulness of mind. See Privacy…
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Ep. 124 - Essential Buddhism Part 2: Mount Analogue and The Eightfold Path
Continuing a series on the essentials of Buddhism from 1974 at Naropa University, Joseph Goldstein plunges further into the essentials of Buddhism with a…
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Ep. 123 - Joseph’s Story
In this talk from 1978 at The Insight Meditation Society, Joseph Goldstein takes us on a comically honest exploration of his spiritual awakening and commitment…
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Ep. 122 - Essential Buddhism Part 1: Developing Our Field of Awareness
In this talk from 1974 at Naropa University, Joseph Goldstein gets into the essentials of Buddhism. He lectures about dharma, insight meditation, and…
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Ep. 121 – Vipassana and Finding Our Buddha Nature with Sharon Salzberg
In this recording from the Insight Meditation Society, Joseph Goldstein reviews the purpose of having a practice and offers us a beginner's guide to The Buddha…
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Ep. 120 – Purifying Our Practice
Joseph Goldstein shares his wisdom on purifying our practice through openness to suffering and being compassionate. This podcast is brought to you by…
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Ep. 119 – The River of Self
Sharing mindful insight on recognizing effort, desire, and impermanence in our practice, Joseph illuminates the nature of self as a flowing river. This podcast…
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Ep. 118 – The Tao of Simplicity
In a session interweaving Buddhist and Taoist wisdom, Joseph Goldstein reveals how simplicity and spaciousness help us let go of our spiritual self-image and…
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Ep. 117 – Love and Kindness
Highlighting the deeply penetrating aspects of Metta, Joseph Goldstein explores how love, kindness, Right Thought, desire, gratitude and friendship can…
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Ep. 116 – Papanca Pt. 2: Impermanence & The Cusp
Joseph Goldstein offers a guided meditation and continued reflection on how we can free ourselves from Papanca – the three proliferating tendencies of mind…
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Ep. 115 – Papanca: Craving, Conceit, and Wrong View
In this Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein guides us through craving, conceit, and wrong view, which are the three proliferating tendencies of the mind also known…
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Ep. 114 – Pain and the Present Moment
Joseph Goldstein explores what pain is, the ways we’ve been conditioned to respond to it, and how we can simply and softly settle back into whatever the…
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Ep. 113 – What Mindfulness Is (& Isn't)
Joseph Goldstein takes a closer look at what mindfulness is (and isn’t), giving us tools for going from recognition to mindfulness and exploring what we can…
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Ep. 112 – Bare Attention
Joseph Goldstein explores the concept of bare attention, or choiceless awareness, and how cultivating this state of mind can help us settle back, live in the…
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Ep. 111 – 11 Questions and Responses
On episode 111 of the Insight Hour Podcast, Joseph Goldstein offers responses to 11 questions on topics such as selflessness, Right Effort, shame, cravings…
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Ep. 110 – Big Mind Game
In this guided meditation from 1977, Joseph Goldstein plays the Big Mind Game, which is a practice of establishing a very still and deep balance of the mind…
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Ep. 109 – Generosity and Emptiness with Ram Dass and Raghu Markus
From the 2018 Open Your Heart in Paradise Retreat on Maui, Ram Dass and Raghu Markus join Joseph Goldstein for a conversation around generosity and emptiness…
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Ep. 108 – Metta & Generosity w/ Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg joins Joseph Goldstein to talk about how Metta (lovingkindness) is an expression of generosity, and to answer questions from the audience at…
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Ep. 107 – Generosity as a Practice w/ Sharon Salzberg
From the 2018 Open Your Heart in Paradise Retreat on Maui, old friends Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg join forces to explore generosity as a form of…
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Ep. 106 – The Methodology of Mindfulness
From the Open Your Heart in Paradise Retreat in 2018, Joseph Goldstein covers the methodology of mindfulness, answering three key questions about the nature of…
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Ep. 105 – Cultivating Loving Thought
From the infamous 1974 Naropa summer sessions, Joseph Goldstein answers audience questions on love, wisdom, practice, perspective, metta, impermanence…
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Ep. 104 – Enlightenment or Bust: A Reflection on the End of the Path
On this episode of Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein explores how it’s helpful to have a comprehensive view of our direction as we set out on the spiritual path…
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Ep. 103 – Integrating What We Have Learned
Tying together meditation's basics—steady awareness & non-clinging—with the intentionality of careful investigation of thought, body, and emotion, Joseph lines…
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Ep. 102 – Courageous Effort
Exploring the factor of enlightenment known as Viriya—our energetic capacity—Joseph Goldstein shares how we can cultivate courageous effort within our lives…
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Ep. 101 – Hallucinations of Perception
Joseph Goldstein explores the hallucinations of perception that keep us bound to the wheel of conditioned existence and teaches us how to train our noble…
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Ep. 100 – The Fetters and Defilements of the Mind
Joseph Goldstein continues his exploration of the Satipatthana Sutta, sharing his insights on how the fetters and defilements of the mind arise, are removed…
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Ep. 99 – Mindfulness of the Six Sense Spheres
Joseph Goldstein continues his series of talks on the Satipatthana Sutta, this time focusing on mindfulness of the six sense spheres and the fetters that arise…
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Ep. 98 – Volition and Consciousness
On this episode of Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein continues his discussion of mindfulness of the dhammas by exploring the mental formation of volition and the…
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Ep. 97 – Perception & Mental Formations
In this Dharma talk, Joseph investigates the mindfulness of the dhamma, focusing in on the aggregates of perception and mental formations. Continuing a series…
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Ep. 95 – Remedies for Sloth and Torpor
In this dharma talk, Joseph Goldstein continues his exploration of the five hindrances, this time offering remedies to deal with the mental factors of sloth…
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Ep. 94 – Dealing with Aversive States of Mind
In this dharma talk, Joseph Goldstein uses the teachings of the Satipatthāna Sutta to explore how we can deal with aversive states of mind such as hatred…
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Ep. 93 – Thought and Emotion
Joseph Goldstein shares Buddhist insight into using mindfulness and meditation to be present with our thoughts and emotions. See Privacy Policy at…
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Ep. 92 – A Balance of Faith and Wisdom
Joseph Goldstein dives deep into the heart of faith, exploring how it connects us and why it needs to be balanced by wisdom. See Privacy Policy at…
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Ep. 91 – Arising and Passing Away
Joseph illuminates how witnessing the arising and passing away of phenomena can break the spell of enchantment and reorient our minds towards freedom. See…
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Ep. 90 - Doubt and Aversion
Joseph Goldstein shares his insight into two of the Buddha’s five hindrances - the seductive mind states of doubt and aversion. See Privacy Policy at…
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Ep. 89 - The Commitment to Truthfulness
Joseph Goldstein shares his insight into different aspects of Right Speech, including the commitment to truthfulness, and refraining from gossip and useless…