Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

Ep. 181 – The Way of the Tao


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In this episode, Joseph Goldstein reflects on the meaning of emptiness on the spiritual path and examines ways in which we can work toward enlightenment.

This dharma talk was recorded on April 16, 1989, and was originally published on Dharma Seed.

In this talk, Joseph touches on:

  • The meaning of emptiness
  • The such-ness of things
  • The 10,000 joys, the 10,000 sorrows, and opening ourselves up to the whole range of experience
  • The Taoist dichotomy between non-action and inaction
  • Taking interest in the phenomenon of thoughts, emotions, experiences, and situations
  • Being simple and easy in our practice

“If we’re simple and easy in our practice, our lives become simple and easy. Can you be simple and easy in your practice, just with what is?” – Joseph Goldstein

About Joseph Goldstein:

Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and loving-kindness meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. He is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he is one of the organization’s guiding teachers. In 1989, together with several other teachers and students of insight meditation, he helped establish the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.

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