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Joseph Goldstein's Dharma Talks

Joseph Goldstein

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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.

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2005-10-19 Feelings: The Gateway to Liberation 56:39	Download Listen
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 : Three Month Retreat - Part 1

2005-10-11 New Title: Relrecative And Absolute Truth Old Title:Self And Selfless 59:07	Download Listen
At the constellation of self, the duality of self, and the need for mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-10-04 Question and Answer - Three Month Course IMS 1 60:18	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month Retreat - Part 1

2005-10-02 Applications of Mindfulness 56:53	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-10-02 Morning Instructions with Q & A: Summary of Instructions 51:11	Download Listen
simplicity of why we're here
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month Retreat - Part 1

2005-09-30 Morning Instructions with Q & A 60:56	Download Listen
awareness of thought and images, taking of eight precepts
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month Retreat - Part 1

2005-09-28 Meditation Overview 58:55	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month Retreat - Part 1

2005-09-27 Morning Instructions with Q & A 54:24	Download Listen
aiming and sustaining attention at the breath
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month Retreat - Part 1

2005-09-25 Opening Talk for Three Month Retreat 1:19:56	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month Retreat - Part 1

2005-08-02 The Four Mind Changes 57:34	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

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