Insight Meditation Society

Enlightenment meets Enlightenment: Finding the Buddha in the secular west

Dr. Arnie Kozak, beliefnet: I recently gave a talk at the University of Vermont College of Medicine called “Beyond Stress…

December 6, 2013

As more people meditate, more realize its benefits

Karen Garloch, Charlotte Observer: If the word meditation conjures images of a Buddhist guru sitting cross-legged in a Himalayan cave,…

August 28, 2012

Through meditation, she makes happiness an inside job

Sharon Salzberg, 58, a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society, has spent more than three decades helping Westerners access a…

February 19, 2011

That misery called meditation

Robert Wright, the New York Times online columnist and author of The Evolution of God, is pretty much what you'd…

June 27, 2010

Teacher who helped shape American Buddhism is still on a quest

Jack Kornfield says 'we're teaching meditation not as a religious activity but as a support for living a wise and…

May 30, 2010

Buddha’s Little Instruction Book, by Jack Kornfield

Available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. This delightful little book by Jack Kornfield, the former monk, co-founder of the Insight Meditation…

February 22, 2007

Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation, by Larry Rosenberg

Available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. Rosenberg's book, taken from talks given at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center in Massachusetts, is…

February 22, 2007

“Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom,” by Joseph Goldstein

Available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. Rereading Goldstein's classic recently in preparation for a forthcoming interview, I was struck by just…

January 24, 2007

“One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism,” by Joseph Goldstein

Available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. Goldstein has been meditating in the Theravadin tradition since the 1960's, and is one of…

March 8, 2006