Joseph Goldstein

Biography
Teaching Schedule
Selected Interviews
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Biography

Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and lovingkindness meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. He is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he is one of the organization's guiding teachers. In 1989, together with several other teachers and students of insight meditation, he helped establish the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.

Joseph first became interested in Buddhism as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand in 1965. Since 1967 he has studied and practiced different forms of Buddhist meditation under eminent teachers from India, Burma and Tibet. He is the author of A Heart Full of Peace, One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism, Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom, The Experience of Insight, and co-author of Seeking the Heart of Wisdom and Insight Meditation: A Correspondence Course.

Teaching Schedule

Selected Interviews

Audio: (via Sounds True) The Nature of Mindfulness Audio: (via Buddhist Geeks) The Benefits of Long Term Practice The Science of Insight Text: The Inner Investigation from "30 Years - Best of Buddhism" in Shambhala Sun, Dec 2009 / Jan 2010 Here, Now, Aware:The Power of Mindfulness, Shambhala Sun, Nov 2007 The Practice of Impermanence, Inquiring Mind, Fall 2000