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The Experience of Insight A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation (Shambhala Dragon Editions)

Joseph Goldstein

This modern classic on Buddhist meditation will help you further your practice and understanding of foundational Buddhist teachings

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10% Happier with Dan Harris

The speaker secretly read this meditation book while ordained as a monk in Burma, resulting in his teacher confronting him for breaking the rules against reading during the retreat.

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so I pulled out Joseph Goldstein's the experience of insight which is actually one of the probably the second meditation book I got and I just I just started reading this

— Episode: Cory Muscara, Mindfulness Teacher, Forme...

Episode: Cory Muscara, Mindfulness Teacher, Former Monk

The speaker secretly read this meditation book while ordained as a monk in Burma, resulting in his teacher confronting him for breaking the rules against reading during the retreat.

"

so I pulled out Joseph Goldstein's the experience of insight which is actually one of the probably the second meditation book I got and I just I just started reading this

Episode: Cory Muscara, Mindfulness Teacher, Former Monk

The speaker pulled this book out to read while hiding naked in his room during a period of intense hardship on retreat, as he needed something different to digest besides the teachings.

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I pulled out Joseph Goldstein's the experience of insight which is actually one of the probably the second meditation book I got

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