## Metadata - Author: [[Joseph Goldstein]] - Full Title: The Experience of Insight - Category: #books ## Highlights - One of the proximate causes for establishing mindfulness is said to be the hearing of the teaching, the Dharma. That becomes the cause for the factor of effort to arise. The Buddha spoke very often about the great skill in coming to hear the Dharma. It arouses the effort factor to begin establishing mindfulness. The mental factors, including “will,” are all latent in the mind. We don’t have to do anything to create the factors. It is just a question of which factors are going to be cultivated. Certain decisions come from hearing the Dharma, understanding what it’s all about. That motivates the arising of effort to develop mindfulness and awareness, to develop insight and wisdom. ([Location 737](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B071R1H156&location=737)) - There’s a writer by the name of Wei Wu Wei who expresses very succinctly this idea of settling back without striving. He says, “What we are looking for is what is looking.” It’s not something outside of us that we have to reach for or hold onto or attain. He said, “There’s only one question, and the asking is the answer.” The asking is what is happening in the moment. And that’s the answer to the question. The answer is not something “out there” that we have to find or discover. The answer to the one big question of who we are is the asking of it. ([Location 1871](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B071R1H156&location=1871))