joseph goldstein

 

 

Joseph Goldstein

 

Biography
Teaching Schedule
Selected Interviews
Publications

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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

2010  

April 1 - May 31

Teaching at the Forest Refuge
with Myoshin Kelley (April) and Greg Scharf (May)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
Barre, MA
Info: (978) 355-2063, fr@dharma.org

April 10

Cambridge Insight Meditation Center
Cambridge, MA
Info: (617) 441-9038

June 14-20

People of Color Retreat
with Gina Sharpe & Larry Yang
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
Barre, MA
Info: (978) 355-4378; rc@dharma.org

July 6-13

Insight Meditation Retreat
with Annie Nugent & Will Kabat-Zinn
Mid America Dharma
St. Louis, MO
Info: info@midamericadharma.org

July 23 - Aug 1

Insight Meditation Retreat
with Steve Armstrong & Kamala Masters
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Woodacre, CA
Info: (415) 488-0164, srmc@spiritrock.org

Aug 8
1-5pm

Seattle Insight Meditation Society
Seattle, WA
Info: (206) 366-2111, webmaster@seattleinsight.org

Sep 11 - Dec 4

IMS Three-Month Retreat
with Carol Wilson, Guy Armstrong, Sally Clough Armstrong, Rebecca Bradshaw, Annie Nugent, Sky Dawson, Greg Scharf & Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
Barre, MA
Info: (978) 355-4378, rc@dharma.org

Oct 31

The Buddha's Inner Life: How Do We Think About It?
with Mark Epstein
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
Barre, MA
Info: (978) 355-2347, bcbs@dharma.org

Nov 6

Vermont Insight Meditation Center
Brattleboro, VT
Info: (802) 254-7077, information@vermontinsight.org

Dec 4

Daylong Workshop
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
Barre, MA
Info: (978) 355-2347, bcbs@dharma.org

Dec 12

New York Insight
New York, NY
Info: (212) 213-4802, nyinsight@earthlink.net

2011

 

Jan 9-23

Travel to Burma with Joseph in support of the
Foundation for the People of Burma

San Francisco, CA
Info: (415) 217-7015; info@foundationburma.org

Selected Interviews

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Audio: (via Buddhist Geeks)

Joseph Goldstein on the Benefits of Long Term Practice

Joseph Goldstein on 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

 

 
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