Joseph Goldstein on Creating A Concept of Self - Insight Hour Podcast Ep. 189 

Describing how perceptions and constructs shape our experiences, Joseph Goldstein teaches on the concept of self.
“We create a concept about ourselves, about who we are. We present ourselves to ourselves in that way, and we present ourselves to the world in that way. As soon as we have a self-concept, a self-image of any kind, it is already a limitation. It is already a contraction. It is as if we poured ourselves into a mold and then wonder why we feel constricted.” - Joseph Goldstein
In this episode, Joseph describes:
The liberating jewel of the Buddha’s teachings
The Self as the fabrication of our minds
The relief of selflessness
Abandoning unwholesome qualities
Using Buddhist psychology to understand how The Self is created
Recognizing, naming, and remembering
Perception in the service of mindfulness
Seeing the frame instead of the picture
How concepts can limit our understanding
Division and the concept of space
Past, present, future, and the concept of time
The constriction within self-image
Projection and self-assessment
Age, culture, race, and other created constructs
When concepts can be useful
“Our perceptions are concepts about what we are experiencing. This overlay on experience very often conditions how we feel about that experience. And, one of the startling things about all this, is that often our perceptions are inaccurate and yet they are conditioning the experience we are having.”- Joseph Goldstein
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