Generosity makes us happy...It's great to have some level of joy or happiness as the foundation of our meditative inquiry.
Joseph Goldstein
Spirit Rock Residential Teacher
Joseph Goldstein is a co-founder and guiding teacher of Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts. He has been teaching Vipassana and Metta retreats worldwide since 1974 and in 1989 helped establish the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.