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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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1996-10-26 Working With Fear 62:28	Download Listen
Recognizing the depth of conditioned fears that keep us closed to our clearest relations of mind and body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1996-10-26 Working With Fear 43:32	Download Listen
Recognizing the depth of conditioned fears that keep us closed to our clearest relations of mind and body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1992-11-29 Radiance Of Mind 61:53	Download Listen
beginning to grasp the vastness of the Dharma and the depth of joy of our journey

1991-04-26 Spiritual Faculties In Daily Life 59:12

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1992-10-05 Working With Sloth, Torpor And Restlessness 59:24	Download Listen
Looking at seductive states that contract the mind into the prison of self.
In collection: Working With The Hard Stuff

1994-12-01 Gateways To Liberation 64:11	Download Listen
understanding the vastness of the spiritual journey

2003-12-02 Guided Equanimity Meditation 43:25	Download Listen
a guided meditation recognizing the spacious and balanced unfolding of life
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2007-07-08 Meditation Overview 59:13	Download Listen
This Talk is an overview of the meditative path. It includes working with pleasant and unpleasant sensations in thoughts, emotions and awareness itself
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : People of Color Retreat

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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