Employing the Satipatthana Sutta, Joseph Goldstein shows us how to overcome the mental states of sloth and torpor.

The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the fourth part of an in-depth 48-part weekly lecture series from Joseph Goldstein that delves into every aspect of the Satipatthana Sutta. If you are just now jumping into the Satipatthana Sutta series, listen to Insight Hour Ep. 203 to follow along and get the full experience!

In this episode, Joseph instructs listeners on:

• The mind states of sloth and torpor
• Defining sloth as a sluggishness of mind which dispels energy
• Noticing when sloth and torpor are present in us
• How sloth and torpor can spread via unwise attention to boredom and depression
• Watching the thinking patterns we have around slothful mind-states
• How sloth and torpor can signal us to other hidden emotions
• Over-consumption and being attentive to what we put into our bodies
• The benefit and value of the eight precepts
• Having a balance of both concentration and energy
• Deepening our insight into the impermanence of the hindrances
• Mindfulness as the most basic strategy for overcoming laziness
• Adding in more objects to our meditation as an antidote to the sinking mind
• Being alert even in times of low energy as practice for conscious dying
• Finding inspiration in reading the dhamma, listening to a recording, or chanting

This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed

“Mindfulness, here, is deepening our insight into the impermanence of the hindrances. If we can stay with it, we see that they come and go by themselves. We don’t have to fulfill the desire, we don’t have to act on the anger, we don’t have to indulge the sleepiness, in order for them to go, we just need to stay with it and we’ll see their changing nature simply through the awareness of them.” – Joseph Goldstein

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Illuminating the shadows of our minds, Joseph Goldstein explains how to notice and investigate the emotions hiding underneath aversions.

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The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the fourth part of an in-depth 48-part weekly lecture series from Joseph Goldstein that delves into every aspect of the Satipatthana Sutta. If you are just now jumping into the Satipatthana Sutta series, listen to Insight Hour Ep. 203 to follow along and get the full experience!

In this episode, Joseph offers a discussion on:

• What aversion is and how to recognize when it’s present
• The powerful underground force of hatred
• Looking clearly and deeply into our own minds through mindfulness
• Weakening and uprooting the very deepest tendencies of mind
• How even words themselves contain both desire and aversion
• The rising of aversion with respect to physical and emotional pain
• The nine thoughts that can stir up malice according to the Buddha
• Why we personalize situations which are impersonal
• Opening up to aversion as simply a noted mind-state
• Arousing the investigative aspect of the mind
• Reflecting on what purpose (or lack their of) our emotions serve
• Taking responsibility for our aversions
• The development of loving-kindness and wishing-well to all beings

This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed

“Really what we’re doing here is illuminating the shadow side of our mind, the aspects that we don’t usually see, the underground, the latent tendencies in which the milder forms of aversion are rooted.” – Joseph Goldstein

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Joseph Goldstein describes the causes of sensual desire and how to be aware of the wanting-mind rather than suppressing it.

The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the fourth part of an in-depth 48-part weekly lecture series from Joseph Goldstein that delves into every aspect of the Satipatthana Sutta. If you are just now jumping into the Satipatthana Sutta series, listen to Insight Hour Ep. 203 to follow along and get the full experience!

This time on Insight Hour, Joseph reveals to listeners:

• Dhamma as categories of phenomena
• The mental turbulence of anger and aversion
• Stagnation of mind, restlessness of mind
• How hindrances alter and condition our perceptions
• Paying particular attention to times of transition
• Abandoning hindrances without aversion, self-judgment, and suppression
• Recognizing when sensual desire is present
• Obsessive passion, expectations, addictive cravings, and other manifestations of the wanting-mind
• How what we frequently ponder upon becomes our inclination of mind
• The misconception that our desires will bring us happiness
• Seeing the insubstantial nature of desire through mindfulness
• Reflecting on the Buddha’s teachings in the very moment that they are applicable
• The prevention of craving through awareness of the cause of desire and non-clinging

“The question is: how can we practice working to abandon the hindrances without suppression, without aversion, and without self-judgment? In the sutta, the Buddha outlines five basic steps in working with the hindrances and finding the middle way between indulging in them and suppressing them. He charts the course for us.” – Joseph Goldstein

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