Guided Meditation with Joseph Goldstein
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- A guided "big mind" meditation with Buddhist teacher Joseph Goldstein.
Mind has no form, no color, and no substance; this is its empty aspect. Yet mind can know things and percieve an infinite variety of phenomena. This is its clear aspect. The inseperability of these two aspects, emptiness and clarity, is the primordial, continuous nature of mind.
At present, the natural clarity of your mind is obscured by delusions. But as the obscuration clears you will begin to uncover the radiance of awareness, until you reach a point where, just as a line traced on water disappears the moment it is made, your thoughts are liberated the moment they arise. To experience mind in this way is to encounter the very source of Buddhahood.
When the nature of mind is recognized, that is called nirvana; when it is obscured by delusion that is called samsara. Yet neither samsara nor nirvana have ever parted from the continuum of the absolute.When awareness reaches its full extent, the ramparts of delusion will have been breached and the citadel of the absolute, beyond meditation, can be seized once and for all.
~His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
One day, I was walking in meditation sometime after 11pm. My thoughts were almost absent. I was staying at a forest monastery and could hear a festival going on in the village in the distance. After I became tired from walking meditation, I went to my hut. As I sat down, I felt that I could not get into the crossed-legged posture fast enough. My mind naturally wanted to enter into deep concentration. It just happened on its own. I thought to my myself, "Why is it like this?" When I sat, I was truly tranquil; my mind was firm and concentrated. Not that I did not hear the sound of singing coming from the village, but I could make myself not hear it as well.
With the mind one-pointed, when I turned it toward sounds, I heard; when I did not, it was quiet. If sounds came, I would look at the one who was aware, who was separate from sounds, and contemplate, "If this isn't it, what else could it be?" I could see my mind and its object standing apart, like this bowl and kettle here. The mind and the sounds were not connected at all. I kept examining in this way, and then I understood. I saw what held subject and object together, and when the connection was broken, true peace emerged....
The awareness was as refined as seemed possible. Passing that point, the mind went in further. Inside was nothing, nothing at all; nothing went in there, nothing could reach. The awareness stopped inside for awhile and then came out. Not that I made it come out -- no, I was merely an observer, the one who was aware.
-Ajahn Chah
(quoted from A Still Forest Pool - link : ftp.budaedu.org...)
Thank you JG, I’ve been listening/ sitting this meditation, on and off for a year.
That felt like 10 minutes, meditation time machine!
Huge benefits from these videos of Joseph Goldstein. Really so valuable ❤
Really powerful. I thought my mind was full of rubbish but it actually is empty. Thanks.
So accepting ❤
SOLID GOLDstein
Joseph Goldstein is the wisest meditation teacher.
Fantastic meditation, at last I found what I have been looking for...Thank you.
So good to hear your words, thank you!!!
Very helpful practice. One of the best I've come across. Thanks for sharing.
I always experience every thing your saying so I am on the right track
Thank you so much for sharing this. I just had the best meditation experiences I believe I've ever had. I found it so powerful and relaxing.
Absolutely unbelievably good.
Getting visual to be completely empty…wow what Grace
Wow. I dropped the concept body/ body parts and became pure sensation. It was fantastic - and pretty psychedelic! X
Mark de Mello 😂😂😂
I LOVE THIS 😊❤🎉
Thank you. It helps me a lot.
very profound - thank you
I love this meditation and as always with Joseph's commentaries and instructions, I feel grateful to him for sharing so generously. There's one thing I don't understand. Why say that there is no solid body (no head, no back etc.)? I find it a bit confusing because if we are to be aware of sensations, surely we will be aware of the sensation of having a body. Maybe I'm missing something obvious here.
Thank you for sharing that profound travel inside
Thank you.
I thought buddha says you are not your thoughts, how is it that you become them??? I've seen this quote everywhere and it amuses me. I'm half way through Joseph's book as well, I would say his information points towards this too.
hi! thank you for sharing.. 🙏
it's been very helpful 🌞
love it,
the basics
quader shanks
Really helpful
Love this :)
Thank you.very grateful.can you do guided meditation in early hours of the day which help us turn off negative thoughts going to bed at night time and any way to help us have deep restorative sleep which is essential for whole body health, physical and mental, un interrupted sleep when you get up many times and try to sleep many times in one night instead of one steady stretch as dead body you wake up in good well being early morning with sun rise as if it was just millisecond as you travel in time .Thank you.Recap meditation to help us sleep deeper and better.
🙏😊
i need a master to help me find peace and help me with self control and self discipline. my life is a big mess.
So its endless short clips played on a black screen with nothing for me to do other than watch? Hold on, who is this me?
Where can I find that image of the buddha?
I would like to print it.
good boy
It's not really an entire meditation but sound bites repeated regularly. Still carries a good message but was repetitive.
mindfulness meditation is repetive. it re-inforces the technique through out the practice. I assure you this is an entire meditation, recorded live. effective mindfulness meditation techniques are simple, because complex practices involve the thinking mind which is counterintuituve to mindfulness. if you find the repitition annoying might i suggest exploring alternative forms of meditation?
Sounds like Snape
Lmfao I'm not the only one who thought it XD
+MusicalDudeMayhem Hahaha I can't unhear it. Meditation is magic.
He said SIT in a straight posture, is it okay if I lay down with my back straight?
I have lots of chronic pain from sport injuries/operations & I choose to lie on my bed. I can't physically sit crosslegged (my knees dislocate >sigh
It is a suggestion, sitting up or laying down will effect the qaulity of mind to some degree, but if your body cannot sit upright then its better to lay down than to do nothing at all.
My body needs to move around when I meditate it seems like because it gets a bunch of energy stored and then my joints crack.
his voice kept making me jump.
soniafrance his voice is scary
NOTICE HOW EFFORTLESSLY!!!
Its your fault, lady.
boring and empty