Joseph Goldstein meets us at the constellation of self, the duality of self, and the need for mindfulness.

This time on Insight Hour, Joseph Goldstein gets into:

Duality and how it relates to our meditation practice
The fundamental split of object and subject
Limitations from perceiving our selves as separate
Persona and the identification we have with the world
The progression from fullness/oneness to constriction
Having compassion for the shadow side
How fear desire, and attachment, make us more attached to our sense of self
Being imprisoned and conditioned by dualistic perception
The integration of mind and body and love for all experience as the connector
From the ego center to the zero center
Being totally honest with what is happening
Mindfulness as the tool to stop identification
The power of renunciation and restraint
This 2005 dharma talk was originally published by Dharmaseed

“As long as we are identified with that sense of self in the mind, that identification creates fear, attachment, separation, comparing. If there’s an “I”, if there’s a self, then we have to defend it, we have to protect it, we have to gratify it, and our whole lives revolve around this particular identification.” – Joseph Goldstein

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