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Ep. 203 – Ask Joseph: Questions From Student To Teacher
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Responding to student questions, Joseph Goldstein invigorates listeners to have faith and confidence in dharma practice.
This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/insighthour and get on your way to being your best self.
This week on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein answers questions on:
- Mental noting throughout meditation
- Working with a greedy mind
- Dukkha and craving as the fundamental cause of suffering
- Small moments of renunciation
- The deepening of concentration over time and why practice is non-linear
- Keeping confidence in the dharma
- Doubt as the most problematic feeling within practice
- Dealing with shame, depression, unworthiness, and other painful mind-states
- Balancing self-knowing and deepening insight into non-self
- Fear of impermanence and attachment to things staying the same
This special group mentorship program recording was originally published on Dharmaseed
“We really just need to continue doing the practice and have that trust that the dharma will lead us onward, which it does. I’ve seen it in myself and I’ve seen it in thousands of yogis. I have a lot of confidence in that.” – Joseph Goldstein
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213 episodes
Manage episode 423405827 series 1355245
Responding to student questions, Joseph Goldstein invigorates listeners to have faith and confidence in dharma practice.
This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/insighthour and get on your way to being your best self.
This week on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein answers questions on:
- Mental noting throughout meditation
- Working with a greedy mind
- Dukkha and craving as the fundamental cause of suffering
- Small moments of renunciation
- The deepening of concentration over time and why practice is non-linear
- Keeping confidence in the dharma
- Doubt as the most problematic feeling within practice
- Dealing with shame, depression, unworthiness, and other painful mind-states
- Balancing self-knowing and deepening insight into non-self
- Fear of impermanence and attachment to things staying the same
This special group mentorship program recording was originally published on Dharmaseed
“We really just need to continue doing the practice and have that trust that the dharma will lead us onward, which it does. I’ve seen it in myself and I’ve seen it in thousands of yogis. I have a lot of confidence in that.” – Joseph Goldstein
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
213 episodes
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