Joseph Goldstein reveals how Nibbana differs from blissful meditation states and why true liberation lies beyond every conditioned experience.

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This week on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein discusses:

• How Nibbana has made its way into Western culture
• Expectation and striving versus having a healthy goal
• Having an aspiration and direction for our practice
• Using equanimity to differentiate beautiful experiences from true glimpses of Nibbana
• The Abhidhamma and understanding the factors of mind which color our consciousness
• The experience of Nibbana as the experience of zero, the stilling of all formations
• How Nibbana uproots the defilements in stages

Check out this episode’s companion essay, Reflections on Nibbana, by Joseph Goldstein

“Even exalted states of mind or great powers of mind do not imply purification of mind. That is the particular power of Nibbana.” –Joseph Goldstein

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Touching into the selfless nature of experience, Joseph Goldstein explores uprooting the defilements through the clarity that comes from practice.

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This time on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein provides his perspective on:

• Engaging with mindfulness
• The radical uprooting of self and identification with experience
• Seeing a glimpse of the deathless in our practice versus the transcendent moment of the unborn
• Slowly seeing clearly over time with dedicated practice
• The emptiness within the defilements
• Taking all things as an invitation to explore rather than to believe
• A brief guided meditation with Joseph
• Moving our mental dialogue into a passive voice

This episode is the 3rd and final part of a 3-part series. It was originally published on Dharmaseed and recorded at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, a non-profit organization founded by renowned meditation teachers Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg to integrate Buddhist study and practice. To start at the beginning, check out Ep. 261 – Gradual Cultivation in Buddhist Practice.

“If you put your hand in fire, do you know that it burns? Do you have any doubt about it? In the genuine experience of things being uprooted, there is that quality of certainty. It is very different than what you were saying about ‘Yeah, it looks to me that the defilements are uprooted.’ The experience that results in the uprooting, which is the experience of the unborn. It has that same immediacy and certainty as putting your hand in fire and knowing it burns.” –Joseph Goldstein

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Joseph Goldstein investigates the not-so-obvious delight of seeing our own arrogance (Māna), and the balance of knowing ultimate truth while living with a functional sense of “I.”

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This week on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein discusses:

• Realizing the truth of non-self while still having an underlying feeling of ‘I am”
• The Buddhist concept of Māna, which can be translated as "pride", "arrogance", or "conceit"
• Our tendency to project the past into the future
• Recognizing Māna for what it is and letting the thoughts dissolve
• How the residue of ‘I’ and ‘self’ can fall away during practice
• Engaging the self just enough to live in the relative world

This episode is the 2nd part of a 3-part series. It was originally published on Dharmaseed and recorded at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, a non-profit organization founded by renowned meditation teachers Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg to integrate Buddhist study and practice. To start at the beginning, check out Ep. 261 – Gradual Cultivation in Buddhist Practice

“These days, I am totally delighted when I see Māna arise in my mind…one of the reasons I am delighted is that I would much rather see it than not see it to recognize 'that’s Māna', instead of not recognizing it and being caught up and identified with that pattern. Just the seeing of it is freeing.” –Joseph Goldstein

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