• 1944: Born; grew up in the Catskill mountains of New York
• 1965: Graduated from Columbia University as a philosophy major
• 1965: Entered the Peace Corps as a volunteer in Thailand where he first became interested in Buddhism; he later went on to live for eight years in Asia
• 1974: Led meditation retreats fashioned after those of S.N. Goenka at Chogyam Trungpa's Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO., where he met Kornfield and Salzberg
• 1975: Co-founded the IMS [1] in Barre, MA.
• 1989: Helped establish the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies [2]
• 1998: Co-founded the IMS Forest Refuge [3] for long-term personal retreats.

• The Experience of Insight (1983)
• Seeking the Heart of Wisdom (1987), with Jack Kornfield
• Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom (1994)
• Path of Insight Meditation (1995), with Jack Kornfield
• Insight Meditation: A Step-By-Step Course on How to Meditate (2002), with Sharon Salzburg Sounds True
• One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism (2002)
• A Heart Full of Peace (2007)

Bibliography

• Fronsdal, Gil (1998). Insight Meditation in the United States: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, in C.S.Prebish & K.K.Tanaka (1998), The Faces of Buddhism in America, University of California Press. Also available on-line at: http://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/articles/InsightintheUS.html.
• Gross, Amy (1999). An Interview with Joseph Goldstein, in Tricycle Magazine. Available on-line at: http://www.dhammaweb.net/interview/view.php?id=5.
• Prebish, Charles (March 2002). Surveying the Buddhist Landscape, in Shambala Sun (March 2002). Also available on-line at: http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1697.
• Schwartz, Tony (1995). What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in America. NY: Bantam Books. ISBN 0-553-09398-3.
• Wright, Robert (undated). An Interview with Joseph Goldstein. Available on-line at: http://meaningoflife.tv/video.php?speaker=goldstein&topic=complete.