Ep. 254 – The Mystery of Consciousness

Responding to a variety of dharma questions on meditation, effort, and impermanence, Joseph Goldstein explores the mystery of consciousness.
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This week on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein responds to questions on:
• The benefits of doing walking meditation versus traditional seated meditation
• Cutting through our conceptual overlay and simply having raw experiences
• Passive voice construction: removing the self as subject when narrating the world around us
• Changing “let it go” to “let it be” when we are struggling to let go
• Being in the flow of changing experiences, the natural arising and passing away of all things
• The fine line of wholesome energy/effort versus striving and struggling
• Realizing the emptiness of thoughts and the suffering they bring to us
• The first experience of nirvana, ‘the zero’, and uprooting the view of self
This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed (dharmaseed.org/talks/93089)
“This is the mystery of consciousness. There’s nothing there tangible to find; no color, no form, it can’t be found. Yet, the knowing is happening. It’s this union of emptiness and knowing.” –Joseph Goldstein
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