Joseph Goldstein, one of America's most well-known and respected Buddhist teachers, distills a lifetime of practice and teaching into "One Dharma, " a vision of the new Buddhist tradition taking root on American soil. While some Buddhists express concern about losing traditional dharma teachings to the melting pot of American practice, Goldstein sees great potential for combining the best of all the traditions that have converged here in the West. He tells us, "In the One Dharma of emerging Western Buddhism, the method is mindfulness, the expression is compassion, the essence is wisdom."
Goldstein's visionary synthesis points a way for Buddhism to grow and flower while remaining rooted in the teachings of the great Asian schools -- from India to Burma to Tibet and Japan. Marked by a simplicity derived from the Buddha's own pragmatic response to life, Goldstein distills the essential question that is the base of all the traditions: What works to free the mind from suffering?
