Ep. 257 – Releasing the Knower: Equanimity and Awareness
1/8/202633 min
Joseph Goldstein discusses equanimity and how to remove the self from the knowing, effectively freeing ourselves from identification with awareness.
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This time on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein mindfully explores:
Thoughts as passing phenomena that do not truly belong to anyoneSeeing all experiences as the simultaneous arising of both knowing and objectLetting go of our identification with knowing and awarenessShifting from active voice to passive voice as a mi...
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Joseph Goldstein· Host1:05
[gentle music] When you look for the mind, there's nothing to find, and the not finding is the finding. It's to see that there's nothing to find. And when there's nothing to find, there's nothing to identify with.
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