Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein Ep. 64 – The Satipatthāna Sutta: Mindfulness of Feelings
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Jan 11, 2019 AI Snips
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Feeling-Tone Is The Primary Condition
- Vedana is the immediate feeling-tone: pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral arising at contact.
- This feeling-tone is the primary link that conditions desire, aversion, and delusion.
Same Feeling, Different Outcome
- Unnoticed feeling tones condition reactive habits like craving and aversion.
- Mindful awareness of the same feelings can transform them into vehicles of awakening.
Hard Retreat Revealed Habitual Reactivity
- Joseph Goldstein recounts a two-month retreat filled with intense physical and mental pain.
- He repeatedly fell into reactivity but also saw moments where mindfulness opened into spacious, nonreactive awareness.