Illuminating the shadows of our minds, Joseph Goldstein explains how to notice and investigate the emotions hiding underneath aversions.
This episode is part of an in-depth 48-part weekly lecture series from Joseph Goldstein that delves into every aspect of the Satipatthana Sutta, one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. If you are just jumping into the series, listen to Insight Hour Ep. 203 to follow along and get the full experience: https://youtu.be/RfuH9O7DS4o
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
