Joseph Goldstein - Liberation Through Non-Clinging
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- A dharma talk where Buddhist teacher Joseph Goldstein discusses the nature of impermanence and letting go of the grasping mind.
All the Buddhist traditions converge in one understanding of what liberates the mind. It is summed up very succinctly in one teaching of the Buddha: "Nothing whatsoever is to be clung to as 'I' Or 'mine.' Whoever has heard this has heard all the teachings. Whoever practices this has practiced all the teachings. Whoever realizes this has realized all the teachings." Nothing whatsoever is to be clung to as "I" or "mine." Non-clinging can be understood on two levels. The first level is non-clinging as a non-sectarian instruction for practice. What to do? Don't cling. There's no Buddhist school that says, "Cling." How to practice in the world? Don't cling. It hardly matters what form we build around that. We can not-cling in a Tibetan house, we can not-cling in a Zen house, we can not-cling in a Theravada house. The essence of One Dharma is the same. But non-clinging is not only an instruction of practice. On the second level, it is also a description of the awakened mind. If we want to know what enlightenment is like, what awakening is like, we can practice the mind of non-clinging, non-fixation, nonattachment to anything at all. It's the mind of open groundlessness.
~From One Dharma by Joseph Goldstein
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Ajahn Maha Bua writes:
Once when I went to practice at Wat Do Dhammachedi, the problem of unawareness [ignorance] had me bewildered for quite some time. At that stage the mind was so radiant that I came to marvel at its radiance. Everything of every sort which could make me marvel seemed to have gathered there in the mind, to the point where I began to marvel at myself, “Why is it that my mind is so marvellous?” Looking at the body, I couldn’t see it at all. It was all space-empty. The mind was radiant in full force.
But luckily, as soon as I began to marvel at myself to the point of exclaiming deludedly in the heart without being conscious of it . . . “Why has my mind come so far?”-at that moment, a statement of Dhamma spontaneously arose. This too I hadn’t anticipated. It suddenly appeared, as if someone were speaking in the heart, although there was no one there speaking. It simply appeared as a statement: “If there is a point or a centre of the knower anywhere, that is an agent of birth.” That’s what it said.
This is the critical point: as long as there is any identification with anything, any sense of the “knower,” the one knowing, then we are still bound by the conventional, conditioned mind. Through mindfulness and wisdom we keep deconstructing the sense of self until the pure mind is realised and only the ultimate ease remains.
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You see, dear reader (speaking frankly, without any intention to offend), you are a ramshackle collection of coincidences held together by a desperate and irrational clinging, there is no center at all, everything depends on everything else, your body depends on the environment, your thoughts depend on whatever junk floats in from the media, your emotions are largely from the reptilian end of your DNA, your intellect is a chemical computer that can't add up a zillionth as fast as a pocket calculator, and even your best side is a superficial piece of social programming that will fall apart just as soon as your spouse leaves with the kids and the money in the joint account, or the economy starts to fail and you get the sack, or you get conscripted into some idiot's war, or they give you the news about your brain tumor. To name this amorphous morass of self-pity, vanity, and despair self is not only the height of hubris, it is also proof (if any were needed) that we are above all a delusional species. (We are in a trance from birth to death.) Prick the balloon, and what do you get? Emptiness.
Take two steps in the divine art of Buddhist meditation, and you will find yourself on a planet you no longer recognize. Those needs and fears you thought were the very bones of your being turn out to be no more than bugs in your software. (Even the certainty of death gets nuanced.)
~From the novel, Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett
May you have happiness and the causes of happiness.
May you be free of suffering and the causes of suffering.
The gift of the Dharma excels all gifts;
The taste of the Dharma excels all tastes;
Delight in the Dharma excels all delights.
The eradication of Craving overcomes all sorrow.
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better than any TED talk you'll ever listen to
Joseph is such an amazing teacher
I never get tired of listening to this.
This talk offers real relief. It's well worth listening to on multiple occasions.
Everything
On multiple occasions indeed
Thank you. Wonderful listening.💕
It is a very wonderful teaching of the heart.
Brilliant, incisive talk. There are a number of subtleties to what he speaks about that I would not have understood earlier in my practice. That said, he presents very sharp, clear thinking on the topic. Thank you for posting the video.
1:08 Unshakable deliverance of mind is the goal of this practice 23:36 Abide contemplating impermanence 57:20 One essential teaching
this must be listened to many times in order to gain a true understanding of what is the most essential point of the Buddha's teaching.
very wise learning, i wish i could keep it in the mind through my life.
So don’t cling to not clinging!
Lol shit be confusing at times
I love this talk, I listen to it often and gain tremendous insights x
22:16 Better to live a single day to see the Arising and Passing than to live 100 years without seeing that. 37:16 What we are practicing all day long
5:05 Let go of everything, everything, everything that's the real point...just let go of everything
Brilliant 🤩
15:21 Dipa Ma's powerful teaching on impermanence.
Everything is impermanent on every level. Have patience.
Thank you
23:36 Abide contemplating impermanence
"If we could just listen to the bell" [talks over bell and for another 40 minutes...]
nice video.very mind relieving.
Iram are you in Pakistan?
25:05 45:36 48:30 57:25
59:03 Teijitsu
has he attained the state of sovaan?(1st step to nirvana)
If you have to claim you have it, you're nowhere near it.
How do I use this to address my anxiety issues
Don't take them personally. Your anxiety isn't happening to anyone. What is anxiety? Accelerated heart rate, shakiness in the body, sweat, increase breath rate. If you investigate none of these things are you they are just conditions arising and ceasing. Sit and watch all the components of your anxiety and note each one and watch it get stronger, weaker, disappear. Pay particular attention to when each component of your anxiety diminishes or ceases, when that happens note it as "ceasing" or "gone".
USA fastly be Buddhist nation in future due to great interest by Americans
I appreciate some of the ideas. I dislike how he mystifies science.
+Letian Wang How does he mystify science?
One of the beautiful things about Buddhism is that it does not have to be dogmatic. Reputable teachers stay up to date on current science and refine their ideas as needed. To me this is not mystifying science. Science and religion (or philosophy) should coexist. There are new age charlatans out there that do what you say, but Goldstein does not appear to be one of them.
Here's a person is clearly more intelligent and educated than I am but yet he keeps getting hung up on conditioning over and over again hung up on conditioning why is this
Our minds are " good story tellers"..but not very good at " telling stories..😜🤔
Sorry, is slow & deep - it makes me sleepy
Southern California Pay more attention because this is all very important
Perfect let goooooo
To me it sounds completely normal when I play it on x1,25 :D
Emptiness equals buddhism, buddhism doesn't equal emptiness.