Afflictive Emotions; Parts 1 and 2 by Joseph Goldstein

Having noticed that we had had only one previous talk from our last speaker, Jack Kornfield, it came as an equal surprise to find that we'd also only had one talk from our current speaker Joseph Goldstein.

Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and loving-kindness meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. He is a co-founder 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 Centre for Buddhist Studies.

Joseph first became interested in Buddhism as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand in 1965. Since 1967 he has studied and practised 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.

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A Concept of Self by Joseph Goldstein

One of our Sangha members suggested that the series of talks on the Satipatṭhāna Sutta by Joseph Goldstein might be appropriate for the Thursday Zen meetings. As I suspected they are just too long at an average of an hour for each talk. However, I did manage to find the following talk at a mere 45 minutes.

But what I also discovered when checking as to whether or not we had already had this talk was that we hadn't had ANY talks by Joseph Goldstein before!

So enjoy this classic on the real nature of The Self.



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