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Joseph Goldstein
Biography
Teaching Schedule
Selected Interviews
Publications
Listen to Joseph's talks on Dharma Seed
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.
2009 Teaching Schedule
| Apr 1 – May 23 |
IMS – The Forest Refuge
With Myoshin Kelley (Apr 1-30)
With
Rob Burbea (May 1-23)
Barre, MA
Info: (978) 355-2063; fr@dharma.org |
Jun 13
7-9 pm |
Benefit Evening for True North Insight
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
(More details to come) |
Jun 14
10am - 5pm |
Living Compassion: Benefit Workshop for True North Insight
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
(More details to come) |
| Jun 19-27 |
Insight Meditation Retreat
With Rodney Smith & Carol Wilson
Gaia House
Newton Abbot, Devon, England
Info: generalenquiries@gaiahouse.co.uk |
Jul 5
2:30pm - 5:30pm
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An Afternoon of Meditation
London Insight Meditation
King's Place, London, England
Info: enquiries@londoninsightmeditation.org.uk |
| Jul 24 – Aug 2 |
Insight Meditation Retreat
With Kamala Masters & Steve Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Woodacre, CA
Info: (415) 488-0164; srmc@spiritrock.org |
Aug 22
1pm - 5pm |
An Afternoon of Meditation
Insight Meditation Community of Washington
Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church
Bethesda, MD
Info: (571) 271-7284; zsappi1@hotmail.com |
Sep 26 – Nov 21 |
Two-Month Retreat
With Carol Wilson, Guy Armstrong, Sally Clough Armstrong & Sharda Rogell (Part 1) and Rebecca Bradshaw, Patricia Genoud-Feldman, Annie Nugent & Pascal Auclair (Part 2)
IMS - Retreat Center
Barre, MA
Info: (978) 355-4378; rc@dharma.org
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Oct 17
9:30am - 5pm |
The Buddha's Song of Enlightenment: Achieved is the End of Craving
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
Barre, MA
Info: (978) 355-2347; bcbs@dharma.org |
| Dec 4-6 |
Extending Awakening into Daily Life: A Benefit Weekend
With Tara Bennett-Goleman & Daniel Goleman
IMS - Retreat Center
Barre, MA
Info: (978) 355-4378; rc@dharma.org |
Selected Interviews
Audio: (via Buddhist Geeks)
Joseph Goldstein on the Benefits of Long Term Practice
Joseph Goldstein on The Science of Insight
Text:
Here, Now, Aware:The Power of Mindfulness, Shambhala Sun, Nov 2007
The Practice of Impermanence, Inquiring Mind, Fall 2000
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