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Joseph Goldstein is an American teacher of Buddhist insight meditation (vipassana) and lovingkindness meditation (metta). He and fellow teacher Sharon Salzberg cofounded the Insight Meditation Society. He studied Buddhist meditation with teachers in India, Burma, and Tibet and is the author of several books.

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Honoring Diversity in the Dharma

Last fall, Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts, launched a four-year teacher-training program that looked very different from previous classes held at the center over the last 40 years.

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Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar
2018
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Peeling Away the Promise of Desire

We may call it different names—peace, or awakening, or enlightenment, even love—but what most of us are looking for is happiness: deep, abiding fulfillment and completion. The problem is that we’re looking for it in the wrong place.

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Joseph Goldstein
2019
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Everyday Meditation: A Nine-Minute Daily Practice

Recently I was thinking about some close friends who are younger than I am, raising families, with busy lives in the world. I could appreciate that it might be quite some time before they would be able to sit a long retreat.

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Joseph Goldstein
2012
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The End of Suffering

In his new book, Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening, Joseph Goldstein discusses the ultimate freedom our practice is meant to bring about.

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Joseph Goldstein
2013
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These Are Not “Your” Thoughts

It is important to make thoughts the object of mindfulness. If we remain unaware of thoughts as they arise, it is difficult to develop insight into their impersonal nature and into our own deep-rooted and subtle identification with the thought process.

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Joseph Goldstein
2019
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Cause and Effect: Reflecting on the Law of Karma

Karma, the action of body, speech, and mind, affects every aspect of our life.

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Joseph Goldstein
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The Nature of Fear

Imagine yourself a great lover of music, about to hear the world’s greatest musician perform an unknown composition. Imagine yourself listening to that performance. How would the mind be?

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Joseph Goldstein
2020
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The Four Foundations of Mindfulness

The simple, although not always easy, practices of vipassana are all rooted in one important discourse of the Buddha: the Satipatthana Sutta. Satipatthana is often translated as “foundation of mindfulness,” but another, and perhaps more helpful, translation is “way of establishing mindfulness.

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Joseph Goldstein
2020
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Facing the Heat: Joseph Goldstein on Addressing the Climate Crisis Step by Step

When I was invited to write a short essay on the climate crisis, my first thought was that I didn’t have much to contribute on the subject of global warming.

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Joseph Goldstein
2009
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What Makes Us Free?

Insight. Loving-kindness. Cultivating what’s wholesome. And making them real in our lives every day. These are what make us free, say Insight Meditation teachers Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein.

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Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield
2013
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