Buddhist Teacher Joseph Goldstein On Getting Insight On The Nature of Thought – Insight Hour Ep. 200

In a dharma talk on working with thoughts and emotions, Joseph Goldstein explains the impersonal and empty nature of the mind. This week on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein teaches us about: - Observing how mind states and thoughts mutually condition each other - The way that thoughts carry us away into different emotional states - Looking at the direct nature and meaning of thought - Noticing the difference between being lost and being awake - Viewing our thoughts just as they arise - Not overthinking and focusing on the simplicity of a practice - The six things that are ever arising or passing: our senses - Maintaining open awareness and experiencing the flow “Well, what is a thought? It’s quite remarkable because when we look at that level, not on the level of the story or the content, but thought as a phenomenon, we see that it is barely more than nothing. It is so phenomenal. These thoughts arise, and the content can be so compelling, but as a phenomenon, as the nature of thought, it’s just this little energy blip in the mind. If we’re not getting hooked by the content, it has no power at all.” – Joseph Goldstein