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The Insight Meditation Society (IMS) is a non-profit organization for study of Buddhism located in Barre, Massachusetts. [1] It was founded in 1975 by Sharon Salzberg , Jack Kornfield , Joseph Goldstein and Jacqueline Schwartz, and is rooted in the Theravada tradition.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center, commonly called Spirit Rock, is a meditation center [1] in Woodacre, California. It focuses on the teachings of the Buddha as presented in the vipassana, or Insight Meditation, tradition. [2] It was founded in 1985 as Insight Meditation West, [3] and is visited by an estimated 40,000 people a year. [4]
In 1976 Kornfield and Goldstein, along with Sharon Salzberg and Jacqueline Schwartz founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. Kornfield later founded a sister center, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, in Marin County, California, and Goldstein and Salzberg founded the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies on land adjoining IMS. [34]
Joseph Goldstein, 80, one of the original founding teachers of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, says his spiritual journey began in Thailand.
Insight Meditation Center Gil Fronsdal (born 1954) is a Norwegian-born, American Buddhist teacher, writer and scholar based in Redwood City , California . He has been practicing Buddhism of the Sōtō Zen and Vipassanā sects since 1975, and is currently teaching the practice of Buddhism in the San Francisco Bay Area . [ 1 ]
He has taught mindfulness meditation worldwide since 1974. In 1975, he co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, and subsequently [clarification needed] in 1987, Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. Kornfield has worked as a peacemaker and activist, organized ...
Larry Rosenberg (born December 15, 1932) is an American Buddhist teacher who founded the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1985. [1] He is also a resident teacher there. Rosenberg was a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago and Harvard Medical School.
Sharon Salzberg (born August 5, 1952) is an author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practice in the West. [1] In 1974, she co-founded the Insight Meditation Society at Barre, Massachusetts, with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein.