Uploaded February 2015 | Updated September 2026, 51 minutes ago

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Joseph Goldstein discusses how the purpose of meditation is not just to feel peaceful, but to become aware of how our experiences are influenced by the concepts and stories we create with our minds. Greater wisdom and awareness deepens as we come to understand the power of concepts and thoughts, how they influence and condition our emotions, perceptions and experience of life, day to day, moment to moment.