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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