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Ep. 195 – Approaching Suffering without Reactivity
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Focusing on equanimity and compassion, Joseph Goldstein teaches about staying open and responsive to collective and individual suffering.
This talk from the Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on Dharmaseed.
This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/insighthour
This time on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein divulges :
- How to stay open and responsive while experiencing both individual and global challenges
- Compassion and equanimity as tools to work with difficulties
- The definition of equanimity and seeing all things as a whole
- Equanimity as the basis of wise discernment and skillful responsiveness
- Re-framing difficult experiences as an opportunity to practice openness
- An invitation to look within rather than blaming outside forces
- Examining what emotions are underneath our reactions
- Letting go of the illusion of being in control
- Accepting our feelings instead of allowing them to limit us
- Freeing ourselves through the awareness of impermanence
- How compassion arises out of our willingness to come close to suffering
- Sorrow as the near enemy of compassion
- Having humility on our path to explore equanimity and compassion
“Equanimity gives us the foundation, the ability to approach the suffering without reactivity. And compassion, precisely arises out of the willingness to come close to suffering.” – Joseph Goldstein
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Manage episode 407952801 series 1355245
Focusing on equanimity and compassion, Joseph Goldstein teaches about staying open and responsive to collective and individual suffering.
This talk from the Spirit Rock Meditation Center was originally published on Dharmaseed.
This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/insighthour
This time on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein divulges :
- How to stay open and responsive while experiencing both individual and global challenges
- Compassion and equanimity as tools to work with difficulties
- The definition of equanimity and seeing all things as a whole
- Equanimity as the basis of wise discernment and skillful responsiveness
- Re-framing difficult experiences as an opportunity to practice openness
- An invitation to look within rather than blaming outside forces
- Examining what emotions are underneath our reactions
- Letting go of the illusion of being in control
- Accepting our feelings instead of allowing them to limit us
- Freeing ourselves through the awareness of impermanence
- How compassion arises out of our willingness to come close to suffering
- Sorrow as the near enemy of compassion
- Having humility on our path to explore equanimity and compassion
“Equanimity gives us the foundation, the ability to approach the suffering without reactivity. And compassion, precisely arises out of the willingness to come close to suffering.” – Joseph Goldstein
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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