Joseph Goldstein: Happiness & the Mirror Within – Insight Hour Ep. 234 – Satipatthana Sutta Pt. 31

Distinguishing merit that leads to mundane happiness from merit aimed at liberation, Joseph Goldstein describes sources of dharmic joy. 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 Continuing his lessons on the Satipatthana Sutta, Joseph discusses: - Making a heart connection with the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha - Reflecting on our commitment to non-harming - Contemplating what it feels like to give and receive generosity - Celestial happiness and beings in higher realms of existence - Merit aimed at mundane happiness vs. merit aimed at liberation - The karmic results to our volitional actions - Cultivating faith, generosity, and wisdom for a source of dharma joy - Reflecting on peace and freedom from the defilements - Tasting momentary freedom and knowing what peace of mind means “Aș we cultivate faith, sila, generosity, and wisdom, the merit of those wholesome actions in the mind cannot be measured. Just reflecting on this becomes a tremendous source of dharma joy, of rapture in the mind.” – Joseph Goldstein This talk was originally published on Dharmaseed