Explaining the ways our minds can be seduced, Joseph Goldstein teaches us how to let go into non-clinging.
This 2007 talk was originally published on Dharmaseed.
“We begin to see that the great seduction of the doubting mind happens in two ways. The first way is that it comes masquerading as wisdom.” – Joseph Goldstein
In this episode, Joseph Goldstein teaches listeners about:
- Letting go into the wisdom mind of non-clinging
- Awakening to the nature of the mind
- Working with the hindrances of mind
- Noticing how the mind can be seduced
- Skeptical doubt and being frozen in indecision
- The ways that doubt can masquerade itself as wisdom
- Telling ourselves that it is okay not to know
- Resting in experience rather than being caught in thought loops
- Investigating our aversions and their hold on the mind
- Seeing everything with perfect wisdom
- Transforming our attitudes about our aversions
- Being inclusive to our difficult experiences
“Struggle is a great feedback because it signifies non-acceptance of something. Because if we were accepting, we wouldn’t be struggling. Whenever we’re in that sense of striving, of struggle, of tension, take that as a feedback, not as a problem. That’s telling us something. That’s saying something is going on in the body, in the mind, in the emotions, in the thoughts, in our external experience, something is going on that we’re not open to, that we’re trying to exclude, and that’s why we’re struggling.” – Joseph Goldstein