The Way of the Tao with Joseph Goldstein - Insight Hour Podcast Ep. 181

In this episode, Joseph Goldstein reflects on the meaning of emptiness on the spiritual path and examines ways in which we can work toward enlightenment.
This dharma talk was recorded on April 16, 1989, and was originally published on Dharma Seed.
“If we’re simple and easy in our practice, our lives become simple and easy. Can you be simple and easy in your practice, just with what is?” - Joseph Goldstein
In this talk, Joseph touches on:
The meaning of emptiness
The such-ness of things
The 10,000 joys, the 10,000 sorrows, and opening ourselves up to the whole range of experience
The Taoist dichotomy between non-action and inaction
Taking interest in the phenomenon of thoughts, emotions, experiences, and situations
Being simple and easy in our practice
About Joseph Goldstein:
Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and loving-kindness meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. He is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he is one of the organization’s guiding teachers. In 1989, together with several other teachers and students of insight meditation, he helped establish the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.
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[@wenmcbrainvansandt3030]

I'm from the Hopi reservation northeastern Arizona Shungopavi village and when I was a little boy there were these monks that always came to our village and they would sit at the edge of the cliff the forbidden area and meditate all day long no water no nothing and now I understand completely why they kept coming to our village. MAY THE GREAT SPIRIT BE WITH YOU ALL ALWAYS

[@philipharville7534]

"No one MAKES us feel anyway" Thank You for that reminder!❤ We are responsible for our own feelings 😊

[@middleofnowhere1313]

If taken literally that comes across as gaslighting. Of course people's actions affect each other.

[@Kimoto504]

@@middleofnowhere1313 Thank you. In the relative world, things/people have affect on other things/people. That's how we are conditioned. That statement "no one makes us feel anyway" is not to be applied to the relative. It's applied to the absolute. When applied to the relative it is only gaslighting. When there's recognition of the Absolute the to the degree to which it's recognized, that statement can be applied.

[@Noct343]

⁠@@Kimoto504Nope.

[@deborahalissa]

I appreciate having access to these talks on youtube. Making such a difference in my quality of life. 😊

[@stoictaoist8553]

Do without doing. Be without being. You are always where you want to be when you analyze the nature of your reality. Smile and enjoy the show be it a great tragedy a comedy or a horror show. 😊

[@ahmadkazemi8728]

one way of and the best way of living is to follow no one, you be the god of universe and have come to earth for a visit,

[@nikolanovakovic4150]

Mister Joseph, you are a treasure. Thank you for sharing your infinite wisdom with us❤

[@philipcharles8218]

We know a song. A song that moves us. A song that reminds us. A song that we associate with. It has energy tempo and rythmn . We all recognise it. Yet we are fully aware that it is just a sequence of words and notes in a particular order. Which in itself is not an actual thing. 🙏

[@raghurachamalla2075]

Can you be simple and easy in your practice.. “just with what is” 🙏

[@nixxrunner]

Thanks for sharing this! 🙂🙏

[@michaelblackburn8499]

🙏🌸

[@kevina4998]

Time stamps for myself! 36:03 Expectations

[@slalialley3786]

Sounds like Christopher Walken in Annie Hall.

[@tommichaels1753]

Every point in the universe equidistant from the origin, or big bang

[@TravisCBarker]

Is this actually the title for the talk?

[@jimicunningable]

This was so very Buddhist, I can NOT understand the title. It was another GREAT LESSON from Mr Goldstein, a favorite of mine, but I just hadda' get that in there. Namaste.

[@raycosmic9019]

Flower = It is the nature of the all-inclusive Absolute to function/serve as a diversified unity of Infinite potential Eternally actualizing as a unified diversity or Uni-verse. Now is constant. Perception is variable. That which is/That I am Being aware of being aware Eternally actualizing Infinite potential Letting this moment be as pleasant as possible. Remembering the Future. How it felt. Designer De' ja vu. The Rhythm of Life is a movement and a rest. The optimum (Heaven), is always found somewhere between the extremes of too much and too little (hell). Pleasantness is the Rose found at the Heart of the Optimum. Narrow is the Way and straight the path, and few there are that find it. Perception = to know experientially. We are an open ended possibility. Ultimately, the most significant choice that we can make at any moment of the day is between unconscious compulsive reaction and conscious creative response. The abstract called Love can be expressed concretely as a smile, hug, etc., thereby uniting Heaven and Earth. The hallmark of the Master Wayfarer is fluid adaptation to an ever changing envirinment. Empty of ego = Full of Life Ejaculate and die. Injaculate and live. Our choice.

[@desertportal353]

Words are symbols. Maps. Suchness however can be known directly but can not be described- even with words such as "flower". Meditate as awareness where no words are necessary. That is suchness or Buddha or Tathagata. It is reality itself. Not a symbol or map. Mindfulness is awareness is suchness isTathagata is Buddha. Even if for only 5 seconds!

[@Suzette_Lilyrose]

Regardless of ethnicity, we all have basic and secondary innate emotions. -Paul Eckman, on Emotions The film, “Inside Out,” a child’s movie, describes emotions. It is based off of PE’s, emotions.