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I have two main aims in teaching. The first is to spread the dharma as widely as possible, offering it to as many different people as I can. The second is to teach a smaller number of people over sustained periods of time. This in-depth teaching engages my tremendous love for intensive, long-term meditation practice, where people can immerse themselves in the retreat experience and see how it transforms their understanding.
Although deeply rooted in the Vipassana tradition of Theravada Buddhism, I enjoy working with various skillful means from different Buddhist schools to help convey the essence of all practice, the one dharma of liberation. This essential dharma includes the wisdom of non-clinging, the motivation of compassion to practice for the benefit of all beings, and the potential for liberation within us all.
Given the speed and complexity of our culture, the Buddha's teachings offer a much-needed means to slow down, a way to create some inner calm. We need to touch base with this place of tranquillity in order to allow our bodies and minds to unwind. We then have the chance to see more deeply and profoundly the nature of our lives, how we create suffering and how we can be free. The dharma begins with the development of calm and it carries us all the way to liberation.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Responses to а variety of Dharma questions
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Jill Shepard asking questions of Joseph that were submitted by the meditators in the second half of the three month course
(Insight Meditation Society - Online) In this special group mentorship program, IMS co-founder Joseph Goldstein offers support to meditators seeking to unlock the secrets of deep practice. The program offers a rare opportunity to ask questions that may be shared by others and to receive customized instruction while being in community and learning from each other.
(Insight Meditation Society - Online) In this special group mentorship program, IMS co-founder Joseph Goldstein offers support to meditators seeking to unlock the secrets of deep practice. The program offers a rare opportunity to ask questions that may be shared by others and to receive customized instruction while being in community and learning from each other.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring habits of attention; recognizing patterns; investigating the nature of thought itself.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Law of karma, right speech, dependent origination, compassion.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Law of karma, right speech, dependent origination, compassion.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Essential teachings of the Buddha, and how they relate to one another.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Essential teachings of the Buddha, and how they relate to one another.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Proliferating tendencies that condition our lived experience, and how to free ourselves from them
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Proliferating tendencies that condition our lived experience, and how to free ourselves from them
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to free ourselves from these tendencies
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Proliferating tendencies of mind that entangle us in the contraction of self
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) How are we called to transmit and receive Buddhist wisdom and practice today? This is an especially important question for contemporary students and those who themselves are training to become dharma teachers and their mentors. What is the significance of the mentor-mentee relationship? In what ways might American-convert Buddhism be transformed as the community of students and dharma teachers becomes more diverse? From its beginning, Buddhism has emphasized that impermanence is a mark of all existence; it is not surprising that as it has been transmitted to different cultures, across vast geographical regions over more than two millennia, Buddhism itself has been constantly changing. As Buddhadharma is transmitted and transformed by a new generation, how do we remain grounded in the liberating wisdom and practices of the traditions we have inherited even as we directly address the turbulence and urgency of our times, and share these teachings with an ever-growing and changing community of practitioners?
An evening of meditation and conversation as we explore these questions with BCBS co-founder Joseph Goldstein, BCBS teacher Dawn Scott, and BCBS Director of Studies William Edelglass.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Some practice instructions for understanding and realizing selflessness.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring two kinds of craving - for sense pleasures and for becoming.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploring the nuances of mindfulness is a vehicle and methodology of liberation.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A discussion of what mindfulness is and what it isn't.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Last hold-out of self; not leaning into practice; can the mind be found?; dreaming oneself into existence.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Review of body, breath, feeling tones, thoughts and working with emotion.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Explaining four aspects of meditation practice: "sit and know you're sitting"; "there is a body"; "simply begin again"; "relaxed but not casual."
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) An exploration of emptiness, awareness and compassion.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring different ways to free the mind: understanding the habits of preference, the emptiness of thoughts, the seduction of "I am", and identification with consciousness
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How we can go from our conventional understanding, that everything changes - to a vision of impermanence - that radically transforms our lives.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How to recognize and work with these mine states, in our practice and in our lives.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Review of meditation instructions and working with thoughts and emotions
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding and working with these two hinderances
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk outlines two perspectives (Abhidhamma and sutta) on stream entry.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) When compassion and emptiness are both present, enlightenment is unavoidable.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Let Go Of The Past, Let Go Of The Future, Let Go Of The Present, And Cross Over To The Further Shore
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How to understand and work with thoughts and emotions in the context of mindfulness and liberation.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Right view as both the beginning and ending of the path - Includes discussion of the four noble truths and the five aggregates from the perspective of non-self.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Learning to see how renunciation is the practice of non-addiction - the gateway to different levels of freedom
(New York Insight Meditation Center) The afternoon will include a guided meditation, talk, and Q&A.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) During the closing transition days of IMS's Three-Month Retreat, there were some group discussions about IMS's diversity initiatives. Bonnie Duran led a group for people of color (POC) meditators, and Joseph Goldstein spoke to and led a discussion with the non-POC group. His intention was to provide an introduction to the work IMS is undertaking in undoing racism and other diversity issues, and to describe his own personal exploration in this area.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How the Buddha's Life journey relates to our own.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The four foundations of mindfulness are the direct path to liberation, but only if they are in the service of investigation and wisdom.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of the causes, obstacles and mind states of compassion in our lives and in the world.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to recognize and work with these common hindrances
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A discussion of the creativity and methodology of insight meditation.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The experience and cultivation of loving kindness in our practice and in our lives.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring ways of working with thoughts and emotions on both the relative and more ultimate levels: karma and emptiness / content and process.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Understanding which feelings condition defilements and which feelings lead to a deeper happiness and awakening.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A discourse and exploration of the relationship between Dukkha and Anatta - and how this understanding leads to freedom.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) In Pali - terms for consciousness, perception, mindfulness and wisdom - have some very specific meanings. In English, however there are often multiple meanings for each one of these words. This talk will help to clarify their meanings, particularly as they apply to our meditation practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of the practice and power of abandoning the unskillful.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Ten minute talk followed by a guided Metta practice - much silence
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring the different meanings and nuances of Viriya; energy effort, courage and perseverance.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Clarifying basic terms of consciousness, perception, mindfulness and wisdom.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring how understanding this profound, obvious, but sometimes overlooked truth, transforms out lives.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A discussion of empathy, compassion and engaged response in the world.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Understanding the larger context of our actions and the application of clear knowing in our daily lives.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) An exploration of the nature of fear and of going beyond our comfort zones in practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) An exploration of the many ways equanimity brings balance to our lives. Groundlessness to the Brahma Viharas, and liberating insight to our mindfulness practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Investigating the sense spheres as the basis for understanding everything we know and how we know it.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A discussion of the creativity and methodology of insight meditation.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of ardor, clean comprehension and mindfulness.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Precious human birth, impermanence, karma and the defects of samsara.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Right speech, the third step on the 8-fold Noble Path, is more than a set of ethical guidelines for living in the world. It is the practice of speech in the service of liberation.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) "What we frequently think about and ponder upon becomes the inclination of the mind." - The Buddha
This talk explores the cultivation of loving thoughts and feelings - what supports it and what obstructs it.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The four mind-changing reflections: precious human birth, impermanence, karma and the defects of samsara.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding how the sense of self is created and how to free ourselves from this great illusion.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of these two qualities of heart: what nurtures them and what obstructs them.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring the nature of these mind states, their particular seductive power, and how to awaken in the midst of them.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to understand desire and craving in our lives and ways to experience the mind of peace.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Recognizing doubt and aversion in the light of emptiness - their nature, allure, and release.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) What concentration is and why it is important
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A discussion of the painful fires of craving and the experience of awaking.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Working with doubt and aversion in the context of the nature of awareness.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A discussion of these important terms exploring their application in the meditative journey.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The creation of concepts and the view of self.
(Unknown) Deepening our understanding of impermanence with implications for our meditation practice and our lives.
(Unknown) This talk is part of the series on the Satipatthana Sutta on the enlightenment factor of energy – or viriya.
(Unknown) Understanding these differences helps deepen our understanding and insights into the nature of this body and mind.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The art of mindfulness leads us to a deep investigation of the nature of our mind/body reality.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Relative Bodhicitta is compassion; ultimate Bodhicitta is emptiness. Within these two, enlightenment is unavoidable.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Feelings—the quality of experience being pleasant, unpleasant or neutral—are the key to the deepest patterns of our conditioning. This talk explores how to work with them in a way that liberates the mind.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) At the constellation of self, the duality of self, and the need for mindfulness.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) aiming and sustaining attention at the breath
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The significance of the Buddha's life in our own practice and in our contemporary times.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the meaning of bare knowing and how it is strengthened in practice. It is part of the series on the Satipatthana Sutta, the Direct Path to Liberation.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How the contemplation of the elements frees the mind from "I" and "mine" giving use to our understanding of relative and ultimate truths.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) bringing wisdom and compassion to a full understanding of love and how it operates in our lives
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The meaning and significance of the Buddha for our lives.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) a guided meditation recognizing the spacious and balanced unfolding of life
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) arousing the power of mindfulness by learning to see in a clear, direct and simple way
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A metta memorial for a beloved teacher- Anagarika Sri Munindra. Remarks by Joseph Goldstein, metta sit and metta blessing chant.
(Unknown) Reflections on impermanence and karma that in the midst of our lives in the world can help turn the mind towards the Dharma, towards liberation.
(Garrison Institute) Calming the mind, collecting the attention, overcoming difficulties, and seeing with wisdom.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Joseph shares personal stories about his dharma journey.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Stages in the journey of awakening. How the Buddha's life relates to our own.
(New York Insight Meditation Center) The new western Buddhism is a deep pragmatism that harkens back to the Buddha himself. It is allegiance to a very simple question: “what works to free the mind from suffering?”
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practicing the Dharma, after a retreat, with the same alive attention and nurturing wisdom that was learned during the retreat.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Resolving, on the eve of the new millennium, to practice and live for the happiness and welfare of all.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Working with our intense emotions by using a Dharma perspective.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Discovering how faith arises, and how we can sustain its great and useful power in our practice and our lives.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Developing equanimity in our relationship towards all beings.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring the meaning and balance of faith and wisdom: the last step depends on the first; the first step depends on the last.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Acknowledging how working with the basic hindrances moves us toward enlightenment.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Seeing our life as practice, with an emphasis on the three fields of training.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) exploring the nature of consciousness, awareness and mindfulness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) different kinds of desire, investigating the nuances of the wanting mind
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) the Buddha's compassionate advice on avoiding the ten unwholesome actions
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) learning to know ourselves completely with no part left out
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Recognizing the depth of conditioned fears that keep us closed to our clearest relations of mind and body.
(Unknown) This talk discusses the special feeling of Metta: the purity of universal and unconditional love.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) exploring the meaning and balance of faith and wisdom: the last step depends on the first, while the first step depends on the last.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Responding to suffering with an open heart and mind
(Unknown) Buddha's simple and straightforward list of skillful, wholesome actions that support our practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) an in-depth look at the deeper levels of practice when one explores impermanence, suffering and selflessness with one pointed concentration
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Settling into lovingkindness as a healing balm for ourselves and our world.
(Unknown) beginning to grasp the vastness of the Dharma and the depth of joy of our journey
(Unknown) tuning into the particular frequency of the Dharma and the depth of joy of our journey
(Unknown) discovering the quality of mind that transforms being aware and present into mindfulness and freedom
(Unknown) discovering how our underlying assumptions control and manipulate our thoughts about the way life is
(Unknown) exploring a way to understand the vastness of the Dharma by observing our inner expanse of consciousness
(Unknown) respecting the subtlety of the practice that strengthen and support our right understanding
(Unknown) bridging the powers of the mind with an understanding of the practice--the 5 Iddhis
(Unknown) LEADS TO THE END OF SUFFERING exploring the ten actions that do harm to ourselves and to others that the Buddha urged us to avoid
(Unknown) Joseph Goldstein answers a variety of student questions with humor and insight
(Unknown) discriminating between the different meanings of "love" and the role that wisdom plays in deepening our understanding
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Revealing the difference between desire, enchantment, and the blessing of metta.
(Santa Rosa) Understanding the many faces of love through the wisdom of non-attachment.
(Unknown) settling back into each moment so that we become the experience instead of "having" an experience
(Unknown) putting down the burden of "I" by realizing the potential for fulfillment in each step of the process
(Unknown) examining the cycles of mind that keep us engaged with the endless arising and passing away of phenomenon
(Unknown) exploring the mind scientifically, artfully, and intuitively; looking at where we are closed; looking at our relationship to experience
(Unknown) beginning to live the dharma in one's daily life; supporting the continuation of right effort
(Unknown) seeing how our deeply conditioned fears prevent us from opening; working with these fears
(Unknown) a description of the Buddha's 12 link law and how mindfulness weakens the chains
(Unknown) looking at the root causes of exploitation and expansionism in our minds (craving, wrong view, conceit); finding peace within; being a force of peace in the world
(Unknown) seeing the causes of suffering in our lives, cultivating attentiveness in every situation
(Unknown) opening what is closed in us; balancing what is reactive; investigating what is hidden
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) purification of the mind via generosity, morality, and wisdom; endless awareness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) opening to the many possibilities of happiness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) right effort, speech, action, livelihood, mindfulness, concentration, aim, and understanding
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) right effort, speech, action, livelihood, mindfulness, concentration, aim, and understanding