Joseph Goldstein discusses enlightenment through the lens of the aspirational mental quality of bodhicitta - the awakened heart.
This dharma talk from June 8, 2015, was recorded at the Insight Meditation Society and initially published by dharmaseed.org.
“The mind’s nature is vivid as a flawless piece of crystal. Intrinsically empty, naturally radiant and ceaselessly responsive.”
In this lecture, Joseph:
- Teaches us that there are two understandings of bodhicitta: relative bodhicitta, which is compassion, and ultimate bodhicitta, which is selflessness
- Highlights the spiritual importance of cultivating both compassion and selflessness
- Ruminates on the challenges of living in our conventional, ordinarily understood reality
- Reminds us that the ungovernability of life is the nexus between dukkha and freedom
- Describes the union of emptiness and clarity
- Recognizes the need for a gradual cultivation of awareness
About Joseph Goldstein:
Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and loving-kindness meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. He is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he is one of the organization’s guiding teachers. In 1989, together with several other teachers and students of insight meditation, he helped establish the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.
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