Intro
Sam introduces his live talks with renowned meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein.
Talk
Examine how thought and emotion condition both our suffering and our happiness.
Preview
Discover the greater purpose of mindfulness and how it leads to wisdom.
See what it means to live in harmony with the world and everything in it.
Examine what forces in your life have the power to agitate and seduce your mind.
Learn why the entire spiritual path rests on the cultivation of this mind state.
Explore what it means to abandon that which is not yours on the deepest level.
Learn about the heart-mind of awakening on both the relative and ultimate level.
Examine fear in all its forms and see how it can be a gateway to awakening.
Discover how craving, wanting, and desire obscure our natural clarity and ease.
Move from a conceptual understanding to a more intimate experience of the path.
Discover four reflections that have the power to awaken us from delusion.
Examine the unwholesome actions of body, mind, and speech that cause suffering.
See how craving leads to suffering and unsatisfactoriness.
Understand the meaning of the word "dukkha" and see why the translation matters.
Learn how letting go of craving leads to the experience of freedom.
Discover how to free yourself from anger, anxiety, envy, greed, and resentment.
Examine mindfulness of feeling and how it plays a crucial role in awakening.
Realize how mindfulness can help you answer some of life's most basic questions.
Joseph shares personal insights from his most recent retreat.
Learn how to foster and develop loving-kindness in your everyday life.
See how true happiness is found between the extremes of desire and deprivation.
Explore the practice of renunciation, which Joseph defines as “non-addiction.”
See how “craving,” “conceit,” and “wrong view” strengthen the sense of self.
Learn how we can "weaken and ultimately free ourselves" from the sense of self.
Explore the difference between concepts about experience—and experience itself.
Embrace the deceptively simple truth that "everything changes."
Discover how compassion grows when you let go of preconceived notions.
Explore "how the sense of self is created"—and how to glimpse its illusoriness.
Cultivate awareness and wisdom through simple yet profound daily practices.
“There are ways to tap into the experience of not-self in our daily lives.”
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