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Joseph Goldstein (born May 20, 1944) is one of the first American vipassana teachers, [1] [2] co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) with Jack Kornfield and Sharon Salzberg, [2] [3] a contemporary author of numerous popular books on Buddhism (see publications below), a resident guiding teacher at IMS, and a leader of retreats worldwide on insight (vipassana) and lovingkindness ...
She is a guiding teacher and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C. (IMCW). [1] Brach also teaches about Buddhist meditation at centers for meditation and yoga in the United States and Europe, including Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California; the Kripalu Center; [2] and the Omega Institute for Holistic ...
Insight Dialogue is an interpersonal meditation practice that brings together meditative awareness (e.g., mindfulness, concentration), the wisdom teachings of the Buddha, and dialogue to support insight into the nature, causes, and release of human suffering. Six meditation instructions, or guidelines, form the core of the practice.
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The various Vipassana teachers also make use of the scheme of the insight knowledges, stages of insight which every practitioner passes through in their progress of meditation. [ note 4 ] The foundation for this progress is the meditation on the arising and passing away of all contemplated phenomena ( anicca ), which leads to an understanding ...
Sarah Powers (born c. 1963 [1]) is a yoga teacher. She co-founded the Insight Yoga Institute and created Insight Yoga, a combination of yoga, transpersonal psychology and Buddhist and Taoist philosophy, described in her 2008 book of the same name.
A six-month pregnant teacher from California has died in hospital after falling down a gorge while hiking in Greece, according to reports. Clara Thomann, 33, from Santa Barbara was left critically ...
Some traditions speak of two types of meditation, insight meditation (vipassanā) and calm meditation (samatha). In fact the two are indivisible facets of the same process. Calm is the peaceful happiness born of meditation; insight is the clear understanding born of the same meditation. Calm leads to insight and insight leads to calm." [30]