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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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2003-07-24 Turning The Mind Toward The Dharma 57:42	Download Listen
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.

2000-10-05 Buddha And His Meaning In Life 65:58

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1995-07-09 Compassion And Wisdom 58:27	Download Listen
Responding to suffering with an open heart and mind
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1990-02-24 Love: Generosity Of The Heart I 49:05	Download Listen
Revealing the difference between desire, enchantment, and the blessing of metta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
In collection: Love:generosity Of The Heart

2001-11-10 Working With Afflictive Emotion 46:14	Download Listen
Working with our intense emotions by using a Dharma perspective.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1993-10-05 Guided Metta Meditation 52:19	Download Listen
Settling into lovingkindness as a healing balm for ourselves and our world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1994-02-10 Carrying The Practice Into The World 56:51	Download Listen
Making our lives our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
In collection: Complete Metta Retreat

1997-02-18 Love And Fear 66:05	Download Listen
learning to know ourselves completely with no part left out
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-12-05 Equanimity: A Guided Meditation 47:56	Download Listen
Developing equanimity in our relationship towards all beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2004-04-25 Can We Be Happy In Our Lives? 62:47	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : April 2004 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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