Through the Buddha’s teachings, Joseph Goldstein explains how developing right view allows one to become the artist of one's own life.

The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the 39th part of an in-depth 48-part weekly lecture series from Joseph Goldstein that delves into every aspect of the Satipatthana Sutta. If you are just now jumping into the Satipatthana Sutta series, listen to Insight Hour Ep. 203 to follow along and get the full experience!

In this episode, Joseph dives into:

• The way of practice that leads to the cessation of suffering
• The elements of the eightfold path (right view, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration)
• How each step on the eightfold path leads to the next
• The critical importance of right view as the precursor to all other teachings
• What is given, what is offered, and what is sacrificed
• How all of our volitional actions produce a result
• Examining our minds and motivations
• The practice of acting on moments of generous impulse
• Becoming the artist and creator of our own lives
• The ways we can be attached to both our beliefs and disbeliefs
• Acknowledging our karmic debt for this great gift of human life

This episode was originally published on Dharmaseed

Grab a copy of the book Joseph references throughout this series, Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization, HERE

“Right view is an important and essential first step on the path because it sets the direction. If we're on a journey, no matter how long or difficult the journey might be - if we're heading in the right direction and we keep on going, we will inevitably reach our destination.” – Joseph Goldstein

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Shepherding us towards the possibility of ending the suffering of dukkha, Joseph Goldstein offers practical guidance on how to weaken the bonds of compulsive craving and attachment by understanding their root cause.

The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the thirty-eighth part of an in-depth 48-part weekly lecture series from Joseph Goldstein that delves into every aspect of the Satipatthana Sutta. If you are just now jumping into the Satipatthana Sutta series, listen to Insight Hour Ep. 203 to follow along and get the full experience!

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This week on Insight Hour, Joseph explores:

• The noble truth of the cessation of dukkha
• Letting go of everything despite our conditioned habits to cling
• Growing and refining our understanding of the three characteristics
• Taking in the impermanence of all things beyond the conceptual level
• Weakening the force of compulsive craving and desire
• Reaching a place of equanimity through mindfulness of the rapidity of change
• Finding satisfaction in neutrality versus pleasant feelings
• The destruction of lust, hatred, and delusion
• Nirvana as an unconditioned awareness
• Having a consciousness which is unsupported, unconstructed, not manifest
• The Buddha’s own description of his process of awakening
• The arising force of latent defilements throughout the day
• Deconstructing the sense of self until we reach a pure mind
• The practice of looking for the mind and finding that there is nothing to find

This episode was originally published on Dharmaseed

Grab a copy of the book Joseph references throughout this series, Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization, HERE

“In the strengthening of mindfulness and concentration, we do come to experience the flow of change very, very rapidly. This is one of the meditative insights that opens to us. When we first begin to experience the rapid changing of everything that’s arising, it’s exhilarating…but as we continue to watch the rapidity of change, we then go through phases of fear and despair because we’re seeing the constant disillusion of things.” – Joseph Goldstein

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Exploring the origin of dukkha, Joseph delves into how craving can shape our lives, fuel unwholesome karma, and keep us trapped in expectation.

The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the thirty-seventh part of an in-depth 48-part weekly lecture series from Joseph Goldstein that delves into every aspect of the Satipatthana Sutta. If you are just now jumping into the Satipatthana Sutta series, listen to Insight Hour Ep. 203 to follow along and get the full experience!

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This time on Insight Hour, Joseph mindfully explains:

• Craving and how we experience it in our lives and practice
• The compelling power of craving as the opposite of peace
• How our culture fosters and values desire/craving
• Obsessive desires and considering what pleasures drive our choices in life
• The danger of craving and having an unquenchable thirst
• How unwholesome karma can be the result of desire
• 9 Things rooted in craving according to the Buddha
• The expectation of pleasant experiences to remain
• Aspirations versus expectations (inspiration vs. the endless cycle of hope and fear)
• The basic urge to exist continuously
• Getting trapped by the ‘in order to’ mind
• The magic show of consciousness

This episode was originally published on Dharmaseed

Grab a copy of the book Joseph references throughout this series, Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization, HERE

“What is the gratification that we find in our lives? What sense experiences are we enamored by? We should look carefully at this. This is a question that led to the Buddha’s awakening, and maybe, would lead to our own.” – Joseph Goldstein

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