Three Strategies for Getting Over Yourself | Joseph Goldstein

About this episode

<p><em>New episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers.</em></p> <p>---</p> <p>Every year, Joseph Goldstein does a three month silent meditation retreat by himself at his home in Massachusetts. In this conversation you're about to hear, Joseph had just emerged from one such retreat with a bunch of thoughts on what are called the three proliferating tendencies or three papañca to use the ancient Pali term. </p> <p>These are three ways in which we perpetuate an unhealthy sense of self. Joseph has explained that you can think about the process of going deeper in meditation as a process of lightening up or getting less self-centered. You're about to get a masterclass in doing just that. </p> <p>For the uninitiated, Joseph is one of the co-founders of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. His co-founders are two other meditation titans, Sharon Salzberg and Jack Kornfield. Joseph has been a teacher at IMS since it was founded in the seventies and he continues to be the resident guiding teacher there. </p> <p><br /></p> <p><strong>In this episode we talk about:</strong></p> <p><br /></p> <ul> <li>The framework for understanding the three proliferating tendencies; the basic building blocks of our experience in the world</li> <li>Six things that make up what the Buddha called "the all" </li> <li>What non-self means and why it's essential to the Buddhist teaching of liberation</li> <li>The two levels of truth: conventional and ultimate</li> <li>Why language is so important in conditioning how we experience things </li> <li>How the three proliferating tendencies provide a very practical guide to understanding how we manufacture our own suffering</li> </ul> <p><br /></p> <p><strong>Full Shownotes:</strong> <a href= "https://www.tenpercent.com/tph/podcast-episode/joseph-goldstein-364-rerun" rel="noopener noreferrer" target= "_blank">https://www.tenpercent.com/tph/podcast-episode/joseph-goldstein-364-rerun</a></p>