 An interview with Joseph Goldstein
Joseph Goldstein is a co-founder and guiding teacher of Insight Meditation Society's Retreat Center and Forest Refuge programs in Massachussetts, USA. He has been teaching vipassana and metta retreats worldwide since 1974 and in 1989 helped establish BCBS. He is the author of A Heart Full of Peace, One Dharma, The Experience of Insight and Insight Meditation.
Practicing Emptiness,Experiencing Fullness
An Interview with Guy Armstrong
People frequently imagine ‘emptiness’ as blankness, where nothing happens in the mind, where there’s just a big vacancy. That's not what the Buddha was pointing to with this term.
As we practice, we start to come in contact with emptiness in different ways. Yogis – those on retreat - often report three experiences that indicate a growing understanding of emptiness: spaciousness, absence of a tangible self, and insubstantiality. You might say that as the truth of emptiness dawns, the fullness of life comes into awareness.
Why
sit a Retreat?
by Bavali Hill
I'm often asked what benefits one can expect from
sitting an Insight Meditation Retreat, compared with attending
a weekly meditation class or sitting regularly at home. It is as different as an hors d'oeuvre from a banquet.
Acceptance by Guy Armstrong
Acceptance is a deceptively simple term. We may hear it and think, “Oh yes, I know what that means,” and not give it a second thought. But as we practice over the years and look into our experience more and more deeply, we see that acceptance is a quality that is capable of almost infinite levels of development.
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