Inner Investigation with Joseph Goldstein – Insight Hour Podcast Ep. 231 – Satipatthana Sutta Pt.28

Joseph Goldstein shares how unremitting mindfulness and continuous investigation of our mental states will lead us to liberation. 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 This time on Insight Hour, Joseph pursues these topics: - Establishing unremitting mindfulness - Investigating and examining our mental states - How truth-discerning wisdom liberates the mind - The three universal characteristics of experience - Cultivating wisdom through investigation of the dhamma - Looking at the motivation behind our actions of body, speech, or mind - The two kinds of happiness, according to the Buddha - Investigating ourselves when we are in a storm of emotions - How clear recognition can be enough to help us let go - Discerning the difference between the knowing and the object - How a single moment of truth-discerning wisdom can change us This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed “By understanding that it is wisdom that illuminates what is true, and that we cultivate wisdom through investigation of the dhamma, we can begin to appreciate the very broad range of skillful means and methods that are in different Buddhist traditions for accomplishing this inquiry.“– Joseph Goldstein