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The Insight Meditation Society (IMS) is a non-profit organization for study of Buddhism located in Barre, Massachusetts. [1] It was founded in 1975 by Sharon Salzberg, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein and Jacqueline Schwartz, and is rooted in the Theravada tradition.
Larry Rosenberg (born December 15, 1932) is an American Buddhist teacher who founded the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1985. [1] He is also a resident teacher there. Rosenberg was a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago and Harvard Medical School.
Sharon Salzberg (born August 5, 1952) is an author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practice in the West. [1] In 1974, she co-founded the Insight Meditation Society at Barre, Massachusetts, with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein.
Joseph Goldstein, 80, one of the original founding teachers of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, says his spiritual journey began in Thailand.
He has taught mindfulness meditation worldwide since 1974. In 1975, he co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, and subsequently [clarification needed] in 1987, Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. Kornfield has worked as a peacemaker and activist, organized ...
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In 1976 Kornfield and Goldstein, along with Sharon Salzberg and Jacqueline Schwartz founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. Kornfield later founded a sister center, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, in Marin County, California, and Goldstein and Salzberg founded the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies on land adjoining IMS. [34]
He helped establish meditation centers all over Burma as well as in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, and by 1972 the centers under his guidance had trained more than 700,000 meditators. In 1979, he travelled to the West, holding retreats at newly founded centers such as the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts, U.S.