Continuing his exploration of selflessness, Joseph Goldstein helps listeners live in the balance of both relative and ultimate truth.

This episode is a continuation of a talk that started in episode 259, "Selflessness, Dukkha, and Freedom."

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This time on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein discusses:

The impersonal nature of experiencing peace
Seeing with consciousness rather than with the subjective mind
Reframing the language of experience with a passive voice
Being fully present in the moment without identification
Understanding death and dying as the natural flow of impermanence
Having an easeful mind even when the body is afflicted
Understanding both relative and ultimate truth
The wonderful and joyful practice of generosity

This episode was recorded at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and originally published on Dharmaseed

“We work to understand the dynamics of our conventional reality and all the challenges of it, even as we understand the essential selfless nature of it all. This is really the heart of a mature spiritual practice, the union of these two, not the separation." –Joseph Goldstein

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Ep. 260 – The Union of Relative & Ultimate Truth