Buddhist Teaching on Perception w/ Joseph Goldstein – Insight Hour Ep.229 – Satipatthana Sutta Pt.26

Teaching listeners to become masters over their perceptions, Joseph Goldstein describes the four great hallucinations of the mind. The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the twenty-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 helps listeners understand: - The latent tendencies of the mind which condition our perceptions - How basic sense impressions can be mistaken - The four great hallucinations of perceptions as outlined by the Buddha - Taking what is impermanent to be permanent - Erroneous perceptions of what is beautiful superficially - The hallucination of what is really suffering being happiness - Taking what is not self to be self - Having mastery over our perceptions - Ways of perceiving that lead to liberation - How moods deceive the mind “A good feedback for us for when we’re lost in this hallucination of perception, taking what’s impermanent to be permanent, is whenever we notice clinging or attachment. When there’s clinging or attachment what that means is that in those moments we are not seeing clearly and we are not experiencing deeply the truth of change, the truth of impermanence. We are diluted into thinking that a particular experience in some way is worth holding onto.“– Joseph Goldstein This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed