Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein10 Okt 2025

Ep. 253 – No Foothold: Integrating Relative & Ultimate Truth In Our Lives

Illuminating different ways to free the mind, Joseph Goldstein integrates relative and ultimate truth, revealing the emptiness of thoughts.

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This time on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein discusses

Integrating the elements of both relative and ultimate truth in our lives
The natural compassion that emerges when we let go of self-identification
Why our perception of reality isn’t always reliable or accurate
Our attachment to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant
Considering if the mind can remain unafflicted while the body is suffering
Shifting awareness from what we want to how the wanting mind feels
Our capability to train the mind in a way that leads to greater freedom
Letting thoughts arise without interference or judgment
Developing nonreactivity through seeing how quickly thoughts arise and pass
Realizing that the past and future are only constructs of the mind

This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed

“Our only experience of the past and future is as a thought in the mind. This is tremendously liberating to see because most of us carry the concepts of the past and future as a huge burden in our lives. All the worries, anxieties, hopes, fears—all of those are arising because we’re not seeing that they’re just concepts.” –Joseph Goldstein

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