Joseph Goldstein is the co-founder and guiding teacher of Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and helped established the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and the Forest Refuge. He has been leading meditation retreats worldwide since 1974, and since 1967 has studied under eminent teachers from India, Burma, and Tibet.  He is the author of Mindfulness, One Dharma, The Experience of Insight, Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom, and Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening.