Insight Hour With Joseph Goldstein

Refining our knowledge of the four elements, Joseph Goldstein explains how our bodily dispositions relate to earth, water, fire, and air.The Satipatthana Sutta is one of the most celebrated and widely studied discourses in the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism. This episode is the tenth part of an in-depth 48-part weekly lecture series from Joseph Goldstein that delves into every aspect of the Satipatthana Sutta. If you are just jumping into the Satipatthana Sutta series, CLICK HERE to start at the first episode.This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/insighthour and get on your way to being your best self.In this episode, Joseph Goldstein examines:The four basic qualities of matterSolidity and the earth elementFluidity, cohesion, and the water elementHeat and light as the function of the fire elementAir and the experience of expanding and extendingBringing the elements into our practiceContemplating our bodily disposition in terms of the fo