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. 17 – The All
An investigation of the six sense spheres, known in Buddhism as “The All,” which form the basis for understanding everything we know and how…
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein – Ep. 16 – Worldly and Unworldly Feelings
Joseph explores the concept of Vedana, explaining the Buddha’s heavy emphasis on establishing this form of mindfulness to better understand how our lives are…
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein – Ep. 15 – The Kind Heart
Joseph describes the expansive power of Loving Kindness and a kind heart, with its unique capacity to embrace each and every being that we…
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein – Ep. 14 – Working with Fear
Joseph offers a timeless discussion of the conditioning nature of fear, and possible methods for transforming that constricting energy into genuine freedom. Our fears…
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein – Ep. 13 – Equanimity: The Gateway to Enlightenment
Is there a gateway to enlightenment? From one perspective it can be said that the entire spiritual path rests on the development and cultivation…
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein – Ep. 12 – Right View
‘There is no single factor so potent in promoting the good of beings as right view’ – Buddha Joseph describes the wisdom factor of…
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein – Ep. 11 – The Art of Renunciation
An enlightening discourse on the often confounding subject of renunciation, and the ways in which we might find value in this practice. Joseph draws…
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein – Ep. 10 – Dukkha and Non-Self
What is it that we actually learn from being mindful? What wisdom emerges from the practice of awareness that has the power to liberate…
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein – Ep. 09 – Sampapalapa: Useless Speech
Joseph is joined by long-time friend and fellow Be Here Now Network ambassador, Raghu Markus, for an in-depth discussion about the value of kindness…