Joseph Goldstein
1944-present • American
Buddhism
American vipassana teacher, co-founder of Insight Meditation Society. Known for clear, precise dharma teachings.
Key Works
- Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
- Insight Meditation
- Teachings
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Quotes by Joseph Goldstein
100 quotes“To investigate is to free yourself from the prison of opinion.”
investigationInsight Meditation
“The simplest practice is the most profound.”
simplicityMindfulness
“Notice impermanence in every breath.”
impermanenceInsight Meditation
“The body is the dharma's most reliable doorway.”
embodimentMindfulness
“To wake up is to come into right relationship with experience.”
awakeningOne Dharma
“Effort and ease must dance together.”
balanceMindfulness
“Don't try to change what's happening. Change your relationship to it.”
relationshipMindfulness
“The dharma is intimate. It is found in your own experience.”
interiorityOne Dharma
“Equanimity is not numbness. It is the freedom to feel without being swept away.”
equanimityMindfulness
“All paths point to the same truth: see clearly, love deeply, let go.”
essenceOne Dharma
“To accept is not to approve. To accept is to allow.”
acceptanceOne Dharma
“The middle way is the path of no extremes.”
middle-wayOne Dharma
“Don't add to the storyline of self.”
non-clingingMindfulness
“Wisdom is the capacity to see things as they are.”
wisdomInsight Meditation
“To meet difficulty with awareness is to dissolve it.”
awarenessMindfulness
“All beings want happiness. Recognize this in everyone you meet.”
compassionOne Dharma
“Notice the sky behind the weather of mind.”
witnessMindfulness
“The end of suffering begins with seeing its cause.”
sufferingOne Dharma
“Mindfulness is a quality of mind that notices what's happening — without judgment, without interference.”
mindfulnessMindfulness
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