Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and lovingkindness 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,
- Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom,
- The Experience of Insight,
- co-author of Seeking the Heart of Wisdom, and
- Insight Meditation: A Correspondence Course.