“Terms like ‘enlightenment’ or ‘awakening’ are important because sometimes people forget what this practice is really about. It’s not about making yourself happier. It’s not liberation of the self; it’s liberation from the self.”

Larry Rosenberg (1932 CE-), Larry Rosenberg is an American Buddhist teacher who founded the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1985. He is also a resident teacher there. Rosenberg was a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago and Harvard Medical School. In addition to teaching at the Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, he is also a senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts.