In part 1 of this Q&A session, Joseph Goldstein gives Buddhist-flavored insight on accepting impermanence, developing our practice, and loving selflessly.
In this episode, Joseph Goldstein offers his perspective on:
- The path from accepting impermanence to happiness
- Letting go of clinging and becoming attuned to the truth of change
- The stages we go through in Vipassana meditation practice
- Understanding meditation experiences—why difficult moments don’t mean a “bad” practice
- How developing a regular practice helps us approach life more equanimously
- Feeling the whole mind-body process within practice and how this helps us let go of our sense of self
- Walking meditation as an effective tool for immediate selflessness
- The challenge of engaging with the world without getting lost in it
- Seeing the clear possibility of loving without attachment and with pure generosity of the heart
“On a conceptual level, being afraid of impermanence is like being afraid of gravity. It’s the way things are. The more we can see that and open to it, we get over that conditioned fear and we’re just in the experience and the acceptance of the flow. It’s actually quite easeful.” – Joseph Goldstein