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The Experience of Insight by Joseph Goldstein — WisdomDeck honest review
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The Experience of Insight

by Joseph Goldstein

Talks from a thirty-day retreat, Goldstein's first book: instructions, questions, the unfolding of practice. Simple and still fresh.

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  1. Simple instruction, repeated.
  2. Questions are practice.
  3. Insight unfolds.

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Read a day's talk and sit.

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A retreat in a book.

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