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Ep. 29 - Cutting Through Identification with Consciousness

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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Consciousness, Mindfulness, Wisdom - What Is the Use of Climbing Out of a Hole?

The most subtle level of identification and the most deeply rooted habit pattern of creating a sense of self happens when we identify with the process of consciousness. The more insight we have, for example, into the three characteristics or even simply into the flow of impermanence, moment after moment that weakens that habit pattern of identification. But through a growing mindfulness, through a growing wisdom, we see that consciousness and mindfulness and wisdom themselves are dependent on conditions. We're barking up this tree that isn't there. That's a great image. Last one. What is the use of trying to climb out of a hole we have never been in?

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