Joseph Goldstein
Joseph Goldstein was born in 1944 and grew up in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. After he graduated from Columbia University in 1965, he joined the Peace Corps and was stationed in Thailand, where he first encountered Buddhism. In 1967, he began a serious study of Buddhism that led him to India, Burma, and Tibet, and by 1974 he was teaching insight meditation retreats all over the world. He is a co-founder of Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts, and is still a guiding teacher there. He envisioned the expansion to IMS’s Retreat Center and Forest Refuge, and in 1989 he helped establish the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. Goldstein’s many books include Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening, One Dharma, and Insight Meditation.
