Illuminating the shadows of our minds, Joseph Goldstein explains how to notice and investigate the emotions hiding underneath aversions.
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The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the 16th 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 jumping into the Satipatthana Sutta series, CLICK HERE to start at the first episode.
In this episode, Joseph offers a discussion on:
- What aversion is and how to recognize when it’s present
- The powerful underground force of hatred
- Looking clearly and deeply into our own minds through mindfulness
- Weakening and uprooting the very deepest tendencies of mind
- How even words themselves contain both desire and aversion
- The rising of aversion with respect to physical and emotional pain
- The nine thoughts that can stir up malice according to the Buddha
- Why we personalize situations which are impersonal
- Opening up to aversion as simply a noted mind-state
- Arousing the investigative aspect of the mind
- Reflecting on what purpose (or lack their of) our emotions serve
- Taking responsibility for our aversions
- The development of loving-kindness and wishing-well to all beings
This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed
“Really what we’re doing here is illuminating the shadow side of our mind, the aspects that we don’t usually see, the underground, the latent tendencies in which the milder forms of aversion are rooted.” – Joseph Goldstein
