Online: Creating a Life of Integrity in a Chaotic World
with Joseph Goldstein and Gail Stark
Thursday, April 3rd, 2025 | 7:00pm – 8:30pm ET
In a chaotic world, where do we find our moral compass? This spring, join teachers Joseph Goldstein and Gail Stark for a special online evening event all about renewing your commitment to living with integrity.
We may notice that when we don’t speak or act from our own sense of what’s right, we feel lousy. Joseph and Gail will unpack what it means to cultivate the qualities of a “life of integrity,” with special attention paid to the Buddhist paramis of generosity, virtue, renunciation, wisdom, courage, patience, truthfulness, resoluteness, loving-kindness, and equanimity.
Join us to discover how each parami is a step on a path that transports us to an empowered place of clarity, commitment, and joy. As we strengthen and weave these qualities into our daily lives, they become our trusted first response in a world that needs our integrity now.
This event will include a guided meditation session and a Q&A.
Online Registration:
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Teacher(s)
Joseph Goldstein
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.
He is the author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening, 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.
Gail Stark
Gail Andersen Stark has been quietly infiltrating the San Francisco world of business with Buddhist teachings for thirty-plus years. Cofounder of a highly regarded San Francisco real estate company, she has guided and mentored hundreds of new agents and clients, gently utilizing the concepts of integrity, kindness, and grace. Her passion is to help make these ancient principles available and accessible to a world in need. She lives in Sausalito, California with her husband, Ron.