Joseph Goldstein: Letting Go of Expectations & Craving

Excerpt from a dhamma talk given in 2008 by the Insight Meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein. He talks about expectations, desires and related mind states and how Buddha taught that as we learn to let go of them we come back to the Natural Wisdom of Awareness.

The entire audio file is about an hour, and can be downloaded for free from dharmaseed, here. It's entitled "2008-07-24 The Buddha; Song Of Enlightenment: Achieved Is The End Of Craving"

http://www.dharmaseed.org/teacher/96/...

Further information on Joseph Goldstein, his teaching schedule and IMS:

http://www.dharma.org/ims/joseph_gold...

Biography

Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and lovingkindness meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. He is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he is one of the organization's guiding teachers. In 1989, together with several other teachers and students of insight meditation, he helped establish the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.

Joseph first became interested in Buddhism as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand in 1965. Since 1967 he has studied and practiced different forms of Buddhist meditation under eminent teachers from India, Burma and Tibet. He is the author of A Heart Full of Peace, One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism, Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom, The Experience of Insight, and co-author of Seeking the Heart of Wisdom and Insight Meditation: A Correspondence Course.