Joseph Goldstein – Insight Hour Podcast
Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and loving kindness 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 Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening, 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.
On the Insight Hour podcast, Joseph illuminates the application of Buddhist teachings for the modern day seeker. For more on Joseph’s teaching schedule, articles, and bio, visit his website.
Find more dharma talks from Joseph as well as teachers like Spring Washam, Ajahn Chah, Tara Brach and more at dharmaseed.org. Dharma Seed is a volunteer-run online resource dedicated to making the Buddhist teachings of Insight Meditation and associated practices available to all, learn more: About Dharma Seed
Most Recent Joseph Goldstein Insight Hour Podcasts
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein – Ep. 32 – The Four Noble Truths: The Cessation of Dukkha
Joseph continues his series on the Four Noble Truths. This week: The Cessation of Dukkha. The third of the Four Noble Truths is the…
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein – Ep. 31 – The Four Noble Truths: The Origin of Dukkha
Joseph continues his multi-part series on the Four Noble Truths, this time investigating the source of Dukkha. The second of the Four Noble Truths…
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein – Ep. 30 – The Four Noble Truths: Dukkha
Joseph begins a multi-part series on the Four Noble Truths. This week: what is Dukkha? The first of the Four Noble Truths is that…
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein – Ep. 29 – Cutting Through Identification with Consciousness
Joseph talks about the concept of self and what we can do to move past the identification with our consciousness that keeps us stuck…
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein – Ep. 28 – Ten Unwholesome Actions
Joseph shows us how we can be happy in our lives by understanding the ten unwholesome actions which, according to the Buddha’s teachings, are…
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein – Ep. 27 – Transforming Afflictive Emotions
This week, on Insight Hour, Joseph discusses the Buddha’s lesson of the Luminous Mind and how it is obscured by our afflictive emotions. How…
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein – Ep. 26 – The Four Mind Changing Reflections
In this episode of the Insight Hour Podcasts, Joseph examines the state of Bardo and delivers an insight of The Four Mind Changing Reflections….
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein – Ep. 25 – The Gift of Awareness
Joseph offers practical methods for maintaining a continuity of awareness that promotes joyful and sustainable dedication to the practice of mindfulness. There are a…
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein – Ep. 24 – Ill Will and Wrong View
Joseph examines ill will and wrong view as some of the common unskillful actions of mind that tend to enable and perpetuate much of…