Guided Meditation on Equanimity with Joseph Goldstein
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- A guided meditation focusing on how to cultivate equanimity with Buddhist teacher Joseph Goldstein.
Develop a mind that is vast like space, where experience both pleasant and unpleasant can appear and disappear without conflict, struggle or harm. Rest in a mind like vast sky.
~ Buddha
I am the heir of my own actions, my happiness and unhappiness depends on my actions, not upon on my wishes.
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Go beyond good and bad by refraining from mentally labeling anything as good or bad. When you go beyond the habitual naming, the power of the universe moves through you. When you are in a non-reactive relationship to experiences, what you would have called "bad" before often turns around quickly, if not immediately, through the power of life itself.
Watch what happens when you don't name an experience as "bad" and instead bring an inner acceptance, an inner "yes" to it, and so let it be as it is.
~Eckhart Tolle
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I am of the nature to age, I have not gone beyond aging.
I am of the nature to sicken, I have not gone beyond sickness.
I am of the nature to die, I have not gone beyond dying.
All that is mine, beloved and pleasing, will become otherwise,
will become separated from me.
I am the owner of my karma, the heir of my karma, born of my karma,
related to my karma, abide supported by my karma.
Whatever karma I shall do, for good or for ill, of that will I be the heir.
Thus, we should frequently recollect.
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If anyone says that a person must reap according to his deeds, if anyone thinks the law of karma is inexorable, then he is saying that there is no spiritual life or growth, nor is there any opportunity to bring confusion to an end. But if anyone says that what a person reaps is in accordance with his deeds, in that case a spiritual life can exist and there is opportunity for realization.
~ Anguttara Nikaya
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Without love, there is no right action. We talk about action. We do so many kinds of social work. But when there is love in your heart, in your eyes, in your blood, in your face, you are a different human being. Whatever you do then has beauty, has grace, is a right action.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
And the mind of the Great Being was not moved.
This is a great antidote to codependent thought patterns.
Excellent content, quality, presentation, repeatability. Thanks, It needs an amazing well informed Master to provide and present such wonderful insights. God blessings.
I truly enjoyed, thanks for uploading!
Recap of principals , neutral balanced open mind without filters , balanced between indifference and attraction, talk with gift of wisdom not reactionary. Our actions not our wishes decide all our lives happiness unhappiness success. All our lives is decided by our mindfulness focus and actions.Training the mind in compassionate consistency ways to have the skills of trained mind , always remember my work surgery and how hard self discipline learning practices to be the Olympic levels of athletes in doing surgery doing diagnosis by my self with my self for others but for self too.
Solid Gold!
Great guided meditation, will add to my playlist
So Good.
youre welcome! All the best.
Exactly what I needed.
What I don't understand is if their happiness not depend on my wishes, why doing so in the joy, compassion or loving kindness meditation? Thanks for your answer!
I felt quite a bit of resistance saying these phrases. What I am struggling with I guess is the inherent notion that everyone's faith is defined by their own actions. It is evident that this is not the case, someone born in a wealthy family in a Western country obviously has a better deal than someone born in in a war-ridden African country. I can see that, within one's context one still has control over their own actions, and that mine or their mere wishes won't do much good. But what I'm afraid of is that this way of thinking puts almost exclusive responsibilty on individuals. There are systems in place that are unjust, if one is truly wise shouldn't one recognize this clearly as well, since it calls us to act rather than to rest calmly in equanimity.
I'm struggeling with this to. I do understand what motion blur says... that it goes hand in hand with compassion. But then again... you're still using the phrases that everyones happiness and unhappiness depends on their actions. How about the captures child, sitting in a cheller, being raped and killed, how about people being tortured just becouse they are att the wrong place att the wrong moment, people and their childres being starved to death? How about the cow and the pig to be slaughtert efter a terrible live becouse people want to eat cheap meat (would say that their unhappiness is a result of our actions, not of theirs), or the dogs at the meat tread in china or the meatfarms in korea, being mistreatet, tortures, killed? (those who get rescued become happy as a result of the actions ,as result of their whishes, of their resquers, not as a result of their own actions). I don't think you can just say... its their karma. My whish to end the suffering of other beings can result in min action and that can result in ending their suffering. Don't think just meditation is enough. And i even have a problem calling other beings than humans 'lower' beings. Doesn't feel like equiminity. Are they lower than uss, humans? Is a dolphin lower than a ape becourse he cannot climb a tree?
@@hjalmaryd Yes. It was too much for me, even if I can rationalize it. It's about the laws of karma. Karma is a complicated concept. A rich person, one like svcleuve mentioned, has too much good karma, as their luxury and privilege makes it hard for them to have a reason to cultivate Buddhahood. Both good and bad karma block enlightenment, both are to be reduced. The responsibility the mantra talks about is the responsibility to make one's own happiness regardless of their current state of karma through meditation. I believe working to purify oneself encapsulates the "actions" the mantra really refers to. It is not simply that the wicked will be punished, but more the practice of meditation and renunciation leads to happiness. That said, the phrase, on its own, does not communicate this meaning well. It instead easily communicates the opposite, to blame others and ourselves for past misdeeds or the circumstances of our births. While I am sure there is wisdom in some of this, I am too adverse to it. It made me feel deeply bad about myself and I had to turn it off. Sad, because I really enjoy most of Goldstein's guided meditations.
@@DazzleQuality Liked your perspective, (though it too seemed ambivalent to evil, for me recognizing it is not enough). Be that as it may, I am writing to suggest that by accepting that Joseph is simply very wrong about this you might avoid "feeling deeply bad about yourself". You made a hell of a lot more sense than he did.
!!!! "my wishes" are actions,too!!!! SO! they ARE depending on of my wishes!!!!! Like Bodhisattva wishes!!!!!
Great meditation, the mic static tho....
I listen to JG's meditations almost every day, he is the man, and I understand the basic concept here. Still, as much as I try not to, at times, I have to call BS on Joseph and others. The prime example is how he, Sharon S, and others talk about kindness to all but eat animals. Sorry, just can't reconcile that. This is another example. How he can recognize that evil in the world is perpetrated upon innocents and attempt to sell that one is responsible for what happens to them puzzles me. Trying to buy what he is selling feels CULTY to me. Sorry, I'm passing on this. Please calibrate and if you do, start with how it is ethical for holy person Dali Lama to eat baby sheep on a regular basis. Seems unkind to me, and that's putting it mildly. I'm all ears.
You are right. I wonder the same about these "saints" that are cruel to the max.
I don’t think they eat meat - in the live online teachings I’ve attended with them - they reference the 5 precepts