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Many Voices, one journey. Sounds true.com. You're listening to Insights at The Edge. Today I speak with Joseph Goldstein. Joseph is an author and meditation

teacher and has been leading insight and loving kindness meditation retreats

worldwide since 1974. He's the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barry, Massachusetts,

where he is one of the organization's Guiding Teachers. He's the author of the organizations guiding teachers. He's the author of the Sounds True Audio Learning

Course, Insight Meditation, a step-by-step course on how to meditate, which is both a home study course and an online course offered through

Sounds True, co-presented with Sharon Salzburg, and Joseph is also the creator of a new three-volume series called Abiding in Mindfulness,

Advanced Teaching and Practical Guidance on the Satipatana sutra. In this episode of Insights at the Edge,

I spoke with Joseph about his study of the Satipatana sutra

as the central teaching of mindfulness meditation, how his own mindfulness practice has

evolved over the past four decades, and what it might mean to live without clinging to any sense of I, me, or mine.

Here's my conversation with Joseph Goldstein. 2016.

Joseph you've worked with Sounds True to create a three volume series on the Satyatana Sutra.

And, you know, this three volume series is something like 36 CDs,

lots and lots of teachings.

And to begin with, I'd love to know why you picked this particular sutra to spend so much time teaching on in such depth. Why this sutra?

Well, the Saty-ipitana Suta is the I would say the core discourse of the

Buddha in terms of outlining the practice of mindfulness meditation.

So it's kind of the central teaching for this kind of meditation and the Buddha's declaration right in the beginning of the

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