Joseph Goldstein

Joseph Goldstein has 33 talks on the Satipatthana Sutta. April 2004 on YouTube on AudioBuddha.

In the first one his some background to his journey. At one point he says, "I could happily just sit there and think and entertain myself." But that's not what meditation is about. Do you want to think or do you want to get enlightened. What choice are you making. Do you want to indulge this pattern or arouse the ardency, which is the energy factor. This path isn't a path of uninterrupted bliss. You need courage.

The goal is to clearly comprehend what is going on. Investigate and develop wisdom.

Here is the first one. 

In the second one he talks about pseudo enlightenment stage, when you develop lopsided in second one. There's a selflessness in faith. Faith keeps us open to things beyond our current level of understanding. I've never hear of faith described that way, and it's blown my mind. He reference Tracing Back the Radiance by Jinul (1158–1210). Mindfulness helps us not to proliferate into desire and confusions. 

Goldstein is an 80 year old American, grew up in Catskills, studied philosophy at Columbia. He went to Thailand in the peace corps. He came back and started teaching at Naropa. He helped establish Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. He uses the phrase "guru job" in his first talk, and I wonder about his guru jobs aside from author and retreat leader, retreat talker.

Links

First book: The Experience of Insight (pdf).

You can find all his books on his Wikipedia page.

Looking on Goodreads, most people have read his book on Mindfulness (2013). Then Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom (1993). Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation (1987) with Jack Kornfield. With the first book The Experience of Insight: A Simple & Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation, he has these 4 books top the list of books that come up. One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism (2002) looks interesting too. Books are more concise, some people prefer audio learning. 

In The Experience of Insight (1976/2020) Ram Das talks about Goldstein and gives credit to Munindra for teaching him in Bodhgaya.

I love hearing about new Buddhists, I've never hear of Jinul (1158–1210). Jinul is also spelled Chinul. 

"The young monk's relationship with his preceptor does not seem to have been especially close, for his biographer states that he never had a permanent teacher. Chinul's intellect and his natural inclination toward solitude and retreat had been noticeable since his youth; with the fractious climate of the church in his days, he probably felt more comfortable learning to get along on his own considerable talents in seclusion. From early on in his vocation Chinul made up for the lack of personal instruction by drawing inspiration from the Buddhist scriptures. In the spirit of self-reliance that is central to Buddhism, he took responsibility for his own spiritual development and followed the path of practice outlined in the scriptures and confirmed through his own Sŏn meditation. Chinul's progress in Buddhist practice was, therefore, based on using scriptural instructions to perfect formal Sŏn practice." 

From The Korean Approach to Zen: The Collected Works of Chinul, Translated with an Introduction by Robert E. Buswell Jr., pages 20-21.

He founded the Jogye order. "In 1994, the Jogye order managed 1725 temples and 10,056 clerics and had 9,125,991 adherents." They attach to the Huineng lineage, famous for his Platform Sutra and winning poetry contests. 

His magnum opus is called: Excerpts from the Dharma Collection and Special Practice Record with Personal Notes.

One of his teachings is essence-function.