{"podcast":{"title":"Keep Talking","slug":"keep-talking-1331245","podcast_index_feed_id":1331245,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans/20210520_005222_a8e19a4cd6d9a7bc6e33dc39aa33e2b3.jpg","author":"Dan Riley","episode_count":155,"summary":"\"Keep Talking\" exists to have conversations that might help to make a better society and a better culture. I believe that each guest has important information and stories to make public. And it's something that I want to share.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-20T02:20:25.098457+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 136: Joseph Goldstein - How Meditation Can Improve Your Life","slug":"episode-136-joseph-goldstein-how-meditation-can-improve-your-life","published_at":"2025-01-03T10:00:37+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245/episode-136-joseph-goldstein-how-meditation-can-improve-your-life","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans/1822017","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/14586/1822017/humans/2024_12_31_13_22_26_d7ac029d-c5af-4af5-b56f-240b925a6f55.mp3","summary":"Joseph Goldstein is an author, the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and is one of the most influential and important figures to bring vipassana meditation practices into the American mainstream. A rebroadcast from 2022. ------------ Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Intro (00:45) How Joseph ended up in Asia a young man (04:39) Reason for interest in Buddhism and meditation (08:59) Immersing in the study of the mind (12:41) The Buddha’s teachings (18:52) Joseph's psychological state when first exposed to Buddhism and meditation (21:01) The daily habits, discipline, and rituals to try to achieve Enlightenment (27:14) Deciding to devote his life to meditation (30:11) Communicating to his mother his desire to devote his life to Buddhism (32:59) Metaphysical views pre and post meditation (37:46) Buddhism is non-theistic (40:14) What is the Dharma? (44:48) Integrating Buddhist teachings with practice and The Noble Eightfold Path (53:37) The first step to use mindfulness to ease psychological suffering (01:01:24) Awareness versus the weather pattern of one's mind (01:04:30) Using mindfulness to respond, rather than to react (01:15:37) Dealing with grief (01:24:50) How can we improve our lives by being mindful?","meta_description":"Joseph Goldstein is an author, the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and is one of the most influential and important figures to…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5670,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/keep-talking-1331245/episodes/episode-136-joseph-goldstein-how-meditation-can-improve-your-life/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245/episode-136-joseph-goldstein-how-meditation-can-improve-your-life.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}