👏🏽 thank you for your time thinking about questions and having thoughtful answers. Really enjoyed the subject matter.

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

I am so happy for this program. I am almost 80 also with a month difference - May 2nd. So we are preparing and thinking about all that after life etc... This would be a most enjoyable episode. Thank you Dan Harris and thank you Joseph!

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

We're so glad you enjoyed it!

Uff, around 4:21 I was sad for a moment. But I'm glad that Joseph wants to share his full scope, because nobody can explain Buddhism as well as he can.

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

He is the best teacher at what he does!

I love the concept of planting seeds as we move forward in life.

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

Yes!

Great dialogue and questions! Dan Harris' questions were direct & thought-provoking. Goldstein's answers were equally direct & well-considered. I enjoyed the interview!

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

Wonderful! Thanks for joining!

Thank you to the wonderful Joseph, and to the skillful questioning of the host. May you both be well and happy 🙏🌿☘️

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

We're so glad!

Wow! So excited for Joseph’s company! Thank you thank you thank you 📡🪶💗

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

Us too!

So wonderful Joseph that you are going beyond acceptable norms… I have also experienced the non material yet very real aspect of consciousness … I feel that these experiences are confirmed.

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

Love this!

Many, many thanks!

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

Such an interesting talk. Feel so lucky to be able to access this. Thank you both

Thank you, thank you , Dan and Joseph for such kindness in your exploration and sharing of these mystical concepts.

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

We're so glad you enjoyed it!

Joseph is the best, thanks for this

Very thought provoking, thanks so much ~🌟

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@ 31:15 ("toxically skeptical"). I can relate to that. I came to all this through "mindfunless" to help me with my mental health. I didn't realize it was vipassana/buddhism. I didn't know that it was talked about by peope like Eckhart or Mooji, et. al. If I'd known that, I would have _never_ gotten into the simple practice of observing my thoughts (individuating the observer from the thinker). It was 5 years later that I heard someone say "yeah, this is what Eckhart talks about, but he comes at it like you already know what he's talking about." I watched one of his videos & had an epiphany to hear someone talk about my experience like they'd had it themselves. (But, very humbled to know that - if I'd found him first - I would have gotten hung up on the religious tones, the new-age stuff, which "tradition" is more accurate, which translation. I would have never gotten the simplicity of "you're not your thoughts. You can observe this for yourself."). It took 3-4 years before I got into buddhism. Again, the simplicity of "you're doing it to yourself" (the first 2 noble truths) would have not gotten through to me. I would have gotten hung up on all the unproveable "belief" in karma, rebirth, etc. The fundamental part of it (how the mind works) is 100% observable. I wouldn't have gotten that part.

@TenPercentHappier

Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks to you both for the insights. Wonderful discussion. 🙏🙏

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

Thank you for this podcast - I just love when you have Joseph on! ❤❤❤

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

Our pleasure! He IS the best!

just a word and wordless thank you

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Actually, I've been taught that there is such a thing as collective karma, so climate change, or a result of climate change is a result of our collective karma. Wars are another example. Actions + conditions = results. It is all driven by our intention (motivation). Intention is the driver. When we have conscious intention of an action (of body, speech or mind) - positive or negative - it creates karma - positive or negative.

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your insight!

Very interesting talk with both Dan and Joseph, I learned a lot and it will help my practice. Thank you!

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

“Instant Karmas gonna getcha” John Lennon

Loved this one so much! Thank you. ♥️

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Very nice discussion. Enjoyed every moment of it! Thank you. guys!

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

Agree kindness means so much in this life.

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

Amen!

I wonder if Buddhism has language for codependency Being “kind” and “generous “ are lovely ideas. I seem to need to navigate these qualities, especially being female, with awareness of balancing these qualities in a healthy way Thank you Joseph

J.G. IN THE HOUSE

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

He's THE best!

What would be a good term for that stream of consciousness that goes from life to life to life? A soul, a self, an atman? Seems like a lot of equivocation and self-contradiction here.

new subscriber, just stumbled here. (Explaining the Buddhist cosmology.). New to Dan Harris, new to Joseph Goldstein, but know both are well respected communicators, much appreciated this sharing. Am doing the audio books of the Pali canon, as if I were a layman hearing the straight Buddhist teachings from a monk speaking them. I'm on the second time through the Majjhima Nikaya. (The Majjhima Nikaya, or "Middle-length Discourses" of the Buddha, is the second of the five nikayas (collections) of the Sutta Pitaka.)

@TenPercentHappier

Ай бұрын

Welcome aboard!

You might also consider that Buddha himself was a bit dizzy in his descriptions, and we have zero reason to think he was inerrant.

Thanks for the great video showing a central teaching of the Buddha, the law of karma often accepted without question in traditional countries in Asia. In fact the workings of karma including directly witnessing how previous life's karma causes the arising of the present mind and matter is still possible in my meditation lineage originated in Myanmar. And there are many practitioners including some Westerners have had first hand experience on attesting it. Check out Beth Upton who is currently teaching yogis to directly access to this myterious phenomena and once they're able to do it they would put the doubt at rest.

@TenPercentHappier

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

Dan doesn't have free will because every choice he makes is based on prior causes, either biological (which he didn't choose) or environmental (which he didn't choose either). It's not that complicated. Sam's book is both short and clear, but personally I think Voltaire said it best (much shorter and every bit as clear) in his Philosophic Dictionary. For Joseph, free will means the ability to act in a way that is not predetermined by either divine or physical causes. Spinoza was explicit that we do NOT have free will. It would be modestly interesting see Sam Harris tell Goldstein why he is wrong, the cognitive dissonance of Sam schooling Joseph would be entertaining, to say the least. This is confusing to Dan because of Joe's equivocation.

"A very clear map that anyone can follow..." Well, apparently not Joseph.

I can imagine the pressure ulcers one would have if they indeed meditated motionless for three days. And those injuries would almost certainly bring unhappiness that would last longer than three days. This whole talk is pretty sketch.

@8888cjstarwoman

21 күн бұрын

Try it. After 45 non moving minutes all my aches left and I came into the present moment in Buddhist meditation center in Surrey BC Canada I wish they had more centers

@chadreilly

21 күн бұрын

@@8888cjstarwoman Killing the nerves and muscle fibers in your posterior might make the pain go away (in the present). But it's not healthy for a plethora of reasons, present moment or no, whatever that's worth. Other pains will be incoming, probably back pain, resulting from the loss of gluteal strength. I'm a physical therapist, BTW, so I do know what I'm talking about.

No Dan/Joe, if you have no free will, you have no agency. Karma would be but another effect that's determined by prior causes. It's hard to "make sense" of it because it's incoherent. What more would you expect from a religion that's thousands of years old?

@kareyreid1982

2 ай бұрын

The way I tried to make sense of this confusion is that we have choice within the bounds of unavoidable preconditioning. It's more like "wiggle room" than free will. ???

@chadreilly

2 ай бұрын

@@kareyreid1982 I tell myself I'm destined for greatness, lol. And work really hard to set up future causal chains to my benefit. FWIW, I thought Voltaire's entries Destin (Fate) and Liberte' (On Freewill) from his Philosophical Dictionary were the most cogent and compact descriptions.

Hocus pocus and too much suspension of actuality!😮

@RK-nq3fj

2 ай бұрын

yeah i’ll go back to other amazing Goldstein lectures. Interviews may not be his thing