The Experience of Insight
Insight Meditation Society (Barre, Massachusetts) · 1976
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Joseph Goldstein
Joseph Goldstein
1944 CE · Modern · Insight Meditation Society (Barre, Massachusetts)
b. May 20, 1944 (living)
Joseph Goldstein (b. 1944) is among the first generation of American-born insight (vipassanā) teachers. Drawn to Buddhism while in the Peace Corps in Thailand and through subsequent study in India, he co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, in 1975 with Jack Kornfield and Sharon Salzberg, and remains a central guiding teacher there. He is known for systematic teaching of mindfulness rooted in the Satipaṭṭhāna framework and for several influential books on insight practice. He continues to teach.
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DOCUMENTED: co-founded the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in 1975 and is its long-time guiding teacher; later helped establish the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and the Forest Refuge.
About Insight Meditation Society (Barre, Massachusetts)
The Insight Meditation Society is a Theravāda-rooted retreat centre in Barre, Massachusetts, USA. It was founded in 1975 by Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield and Jacqueline Schwartz, opening its retreat centre in 1976, and became a central institution in the transmission of vipassanā (insight) meditation to the West.
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Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
Insight Meditation Society (Barre, Massachusetts) · 2013