Events by Location

Ben Lomond, CA
Quaker Center
Orchard Lodge
1000 Hubbard Gulch Rd., Ben Lomond, CA 95005
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Radiant Calm: Jhana as a path to liberating insight
Cosponsored by Bodhi-Retreats and IMSB
Sunday, November 23 - Sunday, November 30, 2008

This retreat, led by Shaila Catherine

will explore how the clarity of a concentrated mind strengthens insight practice. Prior to his enlightenment, the Buddha traversed through deeply absorbed meditative states called jhanas.

Empowered by the deep stability of these concentrated states he liberated the mind from all traces of ignorance and taught the way as a clear path of training. This retreat will introduce traditional concentration practices (samatha or jhana techniques) to focus and unify consciousness, creating a powerful, stable foundation for transformative knowledge. Guided by instructions and individual meetings with the teacher, students can progress through a traditional sequence of samatha training as is appropriate to each one's needs. This silent retreat is structured with alternating periods of sitting and walking meditation, Dhamma teachings, and teacher consultations. Experience with previous silent retreats is required.

Cost: $780

To register, please submit this Jhana Retreat Registration Form

.

For more information, please contact 408-369-1631 or retreats

imsb.org. See also the event event flyer

Awakening with Insight
an Insight Meditation Retreat with Shaila Catherine
Thursday, May 14 - Sunday, May 17, 2009

Registration begins at 2pm on Thursday. Retreat ends at 5pm on Sunday.

Cost: $480 registration fee includes very comfortable accommodations, mostly organic cuisine, and all staff services. To reserve a private cabin for single occupancy add an additional charge of $195.

Dana

: Compensation for the teacher is not included in the registration price. There will be an opportunity to offer dana/donations to support the techer at the end of the retreat.

Contact Kathi at retreats

imsb.org or 408-369-1631

To register: send a non-refundable deposit of $150 (payable to "Bodhi-Retreats") to:

Kathi Benton
1960 Harris Ave. #1
San Jose, CA 95124

Co-Sponsored by Bodhi-Retreats and Insight Meditation South Bay

Concentration and Insight Retreat
with Shaila Catherine
Thursday, July 2 - Thursday, July 9, 2009

Registration begins at 3pm on Thursday. Retreat ends at 1:30pm on Thursday.

Registration fee for July 2, 3pm - July 9, 1:30 - $880

Partial attendance is permitted:
Weekend attendance: July 2, 3pm - July 5, 1:30pm - $450
Weekday attendance: July 5, 2pm - July 9, 1:30pm - $560

Registration fees cover comfortable multiple occupancy accommodations, three delicious meals each day, and cook services. Additional charges will apply for private accommodations.

Accommodations options at Vajrapani include newly renovated dormitories, nice camping sites, a limited number of private cabins on the ridge, and a limited number of private rooms or doubles. Contact the registrar for details.

Dana

imsb.org or 408-369-1631

To register send a non-refundable deposit of $200 (payable to "Bodhi-Retreats") to:

Kathi Benton
1960 Harris Ave. #1
San Jose, CA 95124

Co-Sponsored by Bodhi-Retreats and Insight Meditation South Bay

Campbell, CA
Insight Meditation South Bay
Age Defy Dermatology & Wellness
3803 S. Bascom, Suite 200, Campbell, CA 95008
Map

Questions? contact sit

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Carson City, Nevada
Dharma Zephyr Insight Meditation Community
Questions? contact christytews

gmail.com

Chappell Hill, Texas
Margaret Austin Center
6650 Trackside Rd, Chappell Hill, Texas 77426
Map

Beginners Meditation Intensive
A Non-Residential Weekend Retreat
Saturday, February 14 - Monday, February 16, 2009
9:30 am - 4:00 pm

This retreat offers practical instruction in mindfulness and Insight Meditation (Vipassana). The meditation instructions will guide us through a direct method for investigating our present moment experience to free the mind from habits that perpetuate distraction and agitation. We will practice sitting and walking meditation, cultivating awareness of breath, body, and the processes of heart and mind, to allow grasping, judgment, and fear to fall away revealing the natural spaciousness of mind imbued with wisdom, calm, and joy.

Cost: $100 fee to cover operational expenses, plus voluntary Dana offerings for the teacher.

Dana: In an effort to embrace these teachings in the spirit of generosity, no specific charge for the teacher is included in the basic course fees. A basket will be available for practicing generosity by offering voluntary donations (dana) to support the teacher and her ongoing efforts of serving the dharma.

To register: Send $100 payable to “Bodhi-Retreats”. Please include your name, e-mail, phone, and address to facilitate confirmation.

Bodhi-Retreats
PO Box 490
Menlo Park, CA 94026
insightimsb.org
650-854-8115

Bring bag lunch, zafu/mat if you wish to sit on the wood floor, shawl or blanket. Tea is provided.

Co-Sponsored by Insight Meditation South Bay and Bodhi-Retreats.

Mountain View, CA
Insight Meditation South Bay
St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Edwards Hall
2094 Grant Rd., Mountain View, CA 94040
Map

Questions? contact doug.forehand

sun.com

Tuesday evening guest speaker: Anushka Fernandopulle
Gratitude
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Anushka Fernandopulle has spent time practicing intensively in the Theravada Buddhist tradition over the past 18 years in meditation centers and monasteries in the USA, India, and Sri Lanka. She has been engaged in social justice work throughout her life in such areas as youth development, HIV prevention, LGBT organizing, immigrant/refugee rights, and grassroots community development. Her work is informed by a B.A. in social anthropology/comparative religions from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management. Anushka is being mentored as a dharma teacher through Spirit Rock Meditation Center/Insight Meditation Society and leads meditation retreats in the Bay Area and around the country.

Beginner's Instruction

12 other dates:
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
. . .

Event occurs multiple dates, next is Tuesday, December 2, 2008
6:30 pm - 7:20 pm

This session will provide an introduction to Insight Meditation South Bay and to Vipassana Practice

(Insight Meditation). The orientation is offered the first Tuesday of the month immediately before the regular weekly sitting

. Come for the introduction and stay to meet the members of Insight Meditation South Bay.

You may bring a sitting cusion, but chairs are provided and you need only bring yourself.

Orientation and meditation instruction for a session will be provided by Margaret Gainer, Adam Winkler or Ed Haertel.

For more information, please also see the Beginner's Orientation

The Path of Wisdom
plus Yin Yoga with Renate Kempf
Saturday, December 6, 2008
9:30 am - 4:00 pm

Wisdom has the characteristic of penetrating the real specific nature of phenomena; its function is to illuminate the objective field, like a lamp so that we see the causes of suffering clearly and free ourselves from the tangle of ignorance. Wisdom is likened to a guide in a forest, who knows the way, and unconfused leads us to safety. Wisdom is the chief cause for the practice of the other perfections. Without wisdom we forget to practice generosity and virtue, develop concentration, and manifest compassion. Through wisdom we understand the suffering of others; through compassion we strive to alleviate their suffering.

In this Saturday program we will explore the supportive role of wisdom in our meditation practice. There will be sitting and walking meditations throughout the day, an optional Yin Yoga session at 10:30, optional individual consultations/interviews with Shaila, and a dharma talk on wisdom as a liberating practice in the afternoon.

Renate Kempf has been a bodyworker for seven years and is certified at the 1000 hour level with a focus on Structural Integration. Renate has practiced yoga for over twenty years and completed yin yoga certification with Paul Grilley and Sarah Powers. See www.azureheart.com

for more information about Renate's work.

Introduction to Mindfulness Series - Level I
A 5 week course with Shaila Catherine

4 other dates:
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009

Event occurs multiple dates, next is Thursday, January 22, 2009
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

This course is an introduction to the meditative development of mindfulness through which we refine our ability to focus and bring clear attention to all aspects of experience. We will cultivate mindfulness of breath, sensations, emotions, thoughts and actions. This series includes exercises that enhance mindfulness, support the establishment of a daily meditation practice, and highlight balanced awareness in work and home life. The course is an appropriate for beginners as well as practitioners who wish to refine fundamental meditation techniques for a stronger daily practice.

No registration required, however the Intention to attend the entire series is strongly encouraged as the instructions are cumulative and offered sequentially.

Right View/Understanding
A day long mindfulness retreat with Shaila Catherine
Saturday, January 31, 2009
9:30 am - 6:00 pm

Saturday day-long programs include instructions in both sitting and walking mindfulness practices and focus on the development of a particular quality each month. There will be an optional movement session in the morning. This will typically be a Yoga session and you may bring a mat. For 2009, the afternoon dharma talks will focus on the Eight-Fold Noble Path.

Bring a bag lunch. Chairs are provided and the floor is carpeted. Bring your own sitting cushion if you prefer to meditate sitting on the floor.

Right Intention/Thought
A day long mindfulness retreat with Shaila Catherine
Saturday, February 28, 2009
9:30 am - 6:00 pm

Saturday day-long programs include instructions in both sitting and walking mindfulness practices and focus on the development of a particular quality each month. There will be an optional movement session in the morning. This will typically be a Yoga session and you may bring a mat. For 2009, the afternoon dharma talks will focus on the Eight-Fold Noble Path.

Bring a bag lunch. Chairs are provided and the floor is carpeted. Bring your own sitting cushion if you prefer to meditate sitting on the floor.

Right Speech
A day long mindfulness retreat with Shaila Catherine
Saturday, March 21, 2009
9:30 am - 6:00 pm

Saturday day-long programs include instructions in both sitting and walking mindfulness practices and focus on the development of a particular quality each month. There will be an optional movement session in the morning. This will typically be a Yoga session and you may bring a mat. For 2009, the afternoon dharma talks will focus on the Eight-Fold Noble Path.

Bring a bag lunch. Chairs are provided and the floor is carpeted. Bring your own sitting cushion if you prefer to meditate sitting on the floor.

Day-long retreat with Santikaro
The Emptiness Path of Insight
Saturday, April 4, 2009
9:30 am - 4:00 pm

The Shorter Discourse on Emptiness (MN 121) describes an approach to vipassana that mindfully integrates calmness and seeing clearly. Through gradual descents into emptiness, the practitioner begins to intuit the ultimate emptiness: everything is empty of lasting selfhood and inherent existence. The more this is realized, the more we let go of "me" and "mine." We will consider the implications of this overlooked practice, along with other emptiness teachings. Guided meditation exercises will foster an experiential approach to these powerful, original teachings. Participants should read the discourse before attending.

Santikaro is the founder of Liberation Park, a modern American expression of Buddhist practice, study, and social responsibility located in rural southwestern Wisconsin. He lives there with his wife Jo Marie, various flora and fauna, and visiting friends, and continues to teach, explore nature, and translate the work of his teacher. Previously, he lived and trained as a monk at Suan Mokkh (Garden of Liberation) with Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, a leading Thai teacher and reformer of Theravada Buddhism. Ajahn Buddhadasa contributed enormously to fresh understandings of the liberating teachings of the Buddha that included intimacy with nature, the development of engaged buddhism, and a return to the original teachings of the Pali Canon with profound emphasis on the teachings of conditionality, emptiness, and mindfulness with breathing. These movements within Buddhism, initiated and nurtured by Ajahn Buddhadasa were unconventional in their time, and through the translations of Santikaro among others, came to influence our Western understanding of Buddhism. Santikaro returned to the Midwest in 2001 and retired from monastic life in 2004. Web sites: www.liberationpark.org

and www.suanmokkh.org

Right Action
A day long mindfulness retreat with Shaila Catherine
Saturday, May 30, 2009
9:30 am - 6:00 pm

Saturday day-long programs include instructions in both sitting and walking mindfulness practices and focus on the development of a particular quality each month. There will be an optional movement session in the morning. This will typically be a Yoga session and you may bring a mat. For 2009, the afternoon dharma talks will focus on the Eight-Fold Noble Path.

Bring a bag lunch. Chairs are provided and the floor is carpeted. Bring your own sitting cushion if you prefer to meditate sitting on the floor.

Right Livelihood
A day long mindfulness retreat with Shaila Catherine
Saturday, June 20, 2009
9:30 am - 6:00 pm

Saturday day-long programs include instructions in both sitting and walking mindfulness practices and focus on the development of a particular quality each month. There will be an optional movement session in the morning. This will typically be a Yoga session and you may bring a mat. For 2009, the afternoon dharma talks will focus on the Eight-Fold Noble Path.

Bring a bag lunch. Chairs are provided and the floor is carpeted. Bring your own sitting cushion if you prefer to meditate sitting on the floor.

Right Effort
A day long mindfulness retreat with Shaila Catherine
Saturday, July 25, 2009
9:30 am - 6:00 pm

Saturday day-long programs include instructions in both sitting and walking mindfulness practices and focus on the development of a particular quality each month. There will be an optional movement session in the morning. This will typically be a Yoga session and you may bring a mat. For 2009, the afternoon dharma talks will focus on the Eight-Fold Noble Path.

Bring a bag lunch. Chairs are provided and the floor is carpeted. Bring your own sitting cushion if you prefer to meditate sitting on the floor.

Right Mindfulness
A day long mindfulness retreat with Shaila Catherine
Saturday, August 29, 2009
9:30 am - 6:00 pm

Saturday day-long programs include instructions in both sitting and walking mindfulness practices and focus on the development of a particular quality each month. There will be an optional movement session in the morning. This will typically be a Yoga session and you may bring a mat. For 2009, the afternoon dharma talks will focus on the Eight-Fold Noble Path.

Bring a bag lunch. Chairs are provided and the floor is carpeted. Bring your own sitting cushion if you prefer to meditate sitting on the floor.

Right Concentration
A day long mindfulness retreat with Shaila Catherine
Saturday, September 26, 2009
9:30 am - 6:00 pm

Saturday day-long programs include instructions in both sitting and walking mindfulness practices and focus on the development of a particular quality each month. There will be an optional movement session in the morning. This will typically be a Yoga session and you may bring a mat. For 2009, the afternoon dharma talks will focus on the Eight-Fold Noble Path.

Bring a bag lunch. Chairs are provided and the floor is carpeted. Bring your own sitting cushion if you prefer to meditate sitting on the floor.

San Jose, CA
San Jose Sangha
1041 Morse St., San Jose, CA
Map

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