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  • Beginner’s Orientation

    St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Edwards Hall 2094 Grant Road , Mountain View , CA, United States

    Event occurs the first Tuesday of every month The Beginner's Orientation introduces mindfulness meditation instructions, provides an orientation to Insight Meditation South Bay, enhances introductory mindfulness meditation instructions and introduces a short dhamma teaching. In addition, an introductory instruction is provided to Vipassana Practice (Insight Meditation). A beginner's session is conducted the first Tuesday of the [...]

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  • Where The Rubber Meets The Road: A summer speaker series on Mindful Living with Shaila Catherine and Guest Speakers

    St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Edwards Hall 2094 Grant Road , Mountain View , CA, United States

    Event occurs multiple dates 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Insight Meditation South Bay St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Edwards Hall 2094 Grant Rd., Mountain View, CA 94040 July 1 Shaila Catherine Roles, Relationship, and Awakening July 8 Misha Merrill A Little Attention Makes All the Difference July 15 David Cohn Working with Psychological Obstacles July 22 Jason Murphy The [...]

  • Samyutta Nikaya Study Course Los Altos Group with Shaila Catherine

    Foothills Congregational Church – Fellowship Hall 461 Orange Ave, Los Altos, CA, United States

    Event occurs multiple dates, next is Thursday, Oct  16, 2014 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Los Altos—Thursdays 7:00–9:00 pm Foothills Congregational Church, 461 Orange Ave 4 other dates: Thursday, June 26, 2014 Thursday, September 11, 2014 Thursday, October 16, 2014 Thursday, November 13, 2014

  • Four Powerful Qualities: A day of meditation with Shaila Catherine

    Foothills Congregational Church – Fellowship Hall 461 Orange Ave, Los Altos, CA, United States

    This day-long program will explore four qualities introduced at the beginning of the Satipatthana Sutta: diligence, clarity, mindfulness, and concentration. These form the basis for effective mindfulness practice, and set the stage for the development of deep, comprehensive, and insightful awareness. The program will include sitting and walking meditation, instructions, and opportunities for individual meetings [...]

  • Walking the Path 2014: Developing the Four Foundations of Mindfulness – A six-month program

    Foothills Congregational Church – Fellowship Hall 461 Orange Ave, Los Altos, CA, United States

    Walking the Path 2014 Developing the Four Foundations of Mindfulness A six-month program with Shaila Catherine Saturday, September 13, 2014 - Saturday, February 7, 2015 9:30 am - 6:00 pm Nourish the resolve to deepen your spiritual practice! September 13—Four Powerful Qualities October 11—Full Awareness November 8—Mindfulness of Body December 13—Mindfulness of Feeling January 10—Mindfulness [...]

  • Online Course—The Beautiful Mind: Cultivating the Five Faculties—with Shaila Catherine

    Bodhi-Retreats is launching a fully online course: The Beautiful Mind: Cultivating the Five Faculties with Shaila Catherine Course begins Sunday, September 14, 2014 Course ends November 22, 2014 For course details see www.bodhicourses.org FOR MORE INFORMATION: contact bodhicoursesimsb Co-sponsored by Insight Meditation South Bay and Bodhi-Retreats

  • Samyutta Nikaya Study Course Online group with Shaila Catherine

    Event occurs multiple dates, next is Monday, October 20, 2014 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Pacific Time Event hosted on the the internet Online Los Altos—Thursdays 7:00–9:00 pm at Foothills Congregational Church, 461 Orange Ave Palo Alto—Fridays 10–12 noon at 3942 Duncan Place On Line—Mondays 5:30 - 7:30 pm Pacific Time Detailed Description and dates [...]

  • Series: Enhancing Mindfulness Skills

    St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Edwards Hall 2094 Grant Road , Mountain View , CA, United States

    Tuesday, September 16, 2014 - Tuesday, October 28, 2014 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm This series will expand on instructions offered in most basic mindfulness courses, offering new depths of understanding, as well as integrating the practice with life situations. We will consider the function of mindfulness training within the context of contemplative practices that [...]

  • Samyutta Nikaya Study Course Palo Alto group with Shaila Catherine

    Palo Alto 3942 Duncan Place, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    Event occurs multiple dates, next is Friday, October 24, 201410:00 am - 12 noonDuncan Place, Palo Alto3942 Duncan Place, Palo Alto, CA 940362 other dates: Friday, October 24, 2014 Friday, November 21, 2014

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    Foothills Congregational Church – Fellowship Hall 461 Orange Ave, Los Altos, CA, United States

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  • Day-long: Full Awareness

    Foothills Congregational Church – Fellowship Hall 461 Orange Ave, Los Altos, CA, United States

    A day of meditation with Shaila Catherine. This day-long program will nurture the development of mindfulness, bare attention, clarity, and full awareness in all activities. We will examine classic Buddhist teachings for cultivating mindfulness and liberating awareness, and consider contemporary approaches to enhancing attention skills and bringing mindfulness meet the everyday experiences of life. The [...]

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  • Walking the Path 2014: Developing the Four Foundations of Mindfulness – A six-month program

    Foothills Congregational Church – Fellowship Hall 461 Orange Ave, Los Altos, CA, United States

    Walking the Path 2014 Developing the Four Foundations of Mindfulness A six-month program with Shaila Catherine Saturday, September 13, 2014 - Saturday, February 7, 2015 9:30 am - 6:00 pm Nourish the resolve to deepen your spiritual practice! September 13—Four Powerful Qualities October 11—Full Awareness November 8—Mindfulness of Body December 13—Mindfulness of Feeling January 10—Mindfulness [...]

  • Samyutta Nikaya Study Course Los Altos Group with Shaila Catherine

    Foothills Congregational Church – Fellowship Hall 461 Orange Ave, Los Altos, CA, United States

    Event occurs multiple dates, next is Thursday, Oct  16, 2014 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Los Altos—Thursdays 7:00–9:00 pm Foothills Congregational Church, 461 Orange Ave 4 other dates: Thursday, June 26, 2014 Thursday, September 11, 2014 Thursday, October 16, 2014 Thursday, November 13, 2014

  • Residential Retreat – Tahoe, NV

    Camp Galilee at Lake Tahoe 1776 U.S. 50, Glenbrook, NV, United States

    Developing  Concentration, Insight, and Reflections on Impermanence. A retreat with Shaila Catherine. This silent insight meditation retreat will emphasize the cultivation of both concentration and mindfulness to enhance the potential for liberating insight. Mindfulness of body and breath will be the primary focus of this retreat. In honor of the Halloween holiday optional instructions and [...]

  • Weekly Sitting and Dhamma Talk – CANCELLED

    St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Edwards Hall 2094 Grant Road , Mountain View , CA, United States

    Tonight's meditation group (and also the orientation session) is cancelled. Our meeting room will be used as a polling place this election day. We will resume our usual weekly meditation groups next Tuesday.

  • Day-long: Mindfulness of Body

    Foothills Congregational Church – Fellowship Hall 461 Orange Ave, Los Altos, CA, United States

    Mindfulness of Body: A day of meditation—with Shaila Catherine. This day-long program will explore the nature of the body through mindfulness of posture, body parts, elements, and tangible sensations. Mindfulness of the body practices were designed to enhance concentration, and develop a profound level of disenchantment that leads to liberating insight. The program will include [...]

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  • Weekly Sitting and Dhamma Talk

    St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Edwards Hall 2094 Grant Road , Mountain View , CA, United States

    Insight Meditation South Bay meets every Tuesday evening for a sitting and Dhamma talk. The principal teacher is Shaila Catherine and guest speakers are featured regularly. See also weekly sitting. IMSB relies upon the generosity of participants to support our teachers and cover organizational expenses. Dana is a word in the ancient Pali language that describes donations, offerings and generosity. [...]

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  • Samyutta Nikaya Study Course – Los Altos Group

    Foothills Congregational Church – Fellowship Hall 461 Orange Ave, Los Altos, CA, United States

    with Shaila Catherine This is the final class for the 2014 sutta study course studying the Samyutta Nikaya.

  • Weekly Sitting and Dhamma Talk

    St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Edwards Hall 2094 Grant Road , Mountain View , CA, United States

    Insight Meditation South Bay meets every Tuesday evening for a sitting and Dhamma talk. The principal teacher is Shaila Catherine and guest speakers are featured regularly. See also weekly sitting. IMSB relies upon the generosity of participants to support our teachers and cover organizational expenses. Dana is a word in the ancient Pali language that describes [...]

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  • Samyutta Nikaya Study Course – Palo Alto group

    Palo Alto 3942 Duncan Place, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    With Shaila Catherine This is final meeting for the 2014 Sutta study course studying the Samyutta Nikaya. 

  • Weekly Sitting and Dhamma Talk

    St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Edwards Hall 2094 Grant Road , Mountain View , CA, United States

    Insight Meditation South Bay meets every Tuesday evening for a sitting and Dhamma talk. The principal teacher is Shaila Catherine and guest speakers are featured regularly. See also weekly sitting. IMSB relies upon the generosity of participants to support our teachers and cover organizational expenses. Dana is a word in the ancient Pali language that describes donations, offerings and generosity. [...]

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  • Day-long: Mindfulness of Feeling

    Foothills Congregational Church – Fellowship Hall 461 Orange Ave, Los Altos, CA, United States

    A day of meditation—with Shaila Catherine. This day-long program will explore our relationship to feelings—feelings that are pleasant, unpleasant, worldly or spiritual. Many different kinds of feelings arise in our lives. Without mindfulness we might be swept away by habitual reactions of desire, fear, or hatred. However, with the cultivation of mindfulness regarding feelings, we [...]

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  • New Year’s Retreat–Texas

    Margaret Austin Retreat Center 6650 County Road 117, Chappell Hill, TX, United States

    Two options for attendance: Saturday, Dec. 27, 2014 - Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015. or Partial attendance December 27, 2014 - January 1, 2015. The theme of this silent New Year's holiday retreat is the Four Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipatthana Sutta). Many practitioners consider the Satipatthana Sutta to be among the most important and practical teachings [...]

  • Guest talk: Egos Found and Lost with Lisa Benham

    St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Edwards Hall 2094 Grant Road , Mountain View , CA, United States

    Egos Found and Lost: The Role of Compassionate Interdependence in a Prison Garden Program with Lisa Benham This talk discusses recognizable patterns of Dharma found in new paths taken, as described through quotes from the inmate participants of the Insight Garden Program at San Quentin. The stories and details shared come directly from Lisa Benham’s recent Environmental Studies thesis research:  "From Utility to Significance: [...]

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  • IMSB’s 9-Year Anniversary

    St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Edwards Hall 2094 Grant Road , Mountain View , CA, United States

    IMSB's 9-Year Anniversary Celebration with Shaila Catherine On this Tuesday we will celebrate the 9th anniversary of the formation of IMSB as well as the start of the 2015 New Year. There will be snacks and a mini-ritual-celebration along with our meditation and dharma talk. Snack or dessert dishes to share are welcome, but not [...]

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  • Day-long: Mindfulness of Mind

    Foothills Congregational Church – Fellowship Hall 461 Orange Ave, Los Altos, CA, United States

    A day of meditation with Shaila Catherine. This day-long program will explore our relationship to mental states and what is actually occurring within our own minds. Many different thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and mental states arise in our lives. By cultivating mindfulness of the mind, we learn to recognize any emotion, reaction, or state with clarity [...]

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  • Sutta Study – Online

    Online

    This is the first session of the 2015 Sutta Study Course on the Numerical Discourses of the Buddha. with Shaila Catherine We meet in three locations to serve the local and online community. See the Sutta Study page for description and details of the course.

  • Series: Construction Of Identity

    St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Edwards Hall 2094 Grant Road , Mountain View , CA, United States

    The Construction Of Identity And The Five Clinging Aggregates. A Five Week Series with Shaila Catherine. January 13—Focus on Matter January 20—Focus on Feeling January 27—Focus on Perception February 3—Focus on Mental Formations February 10—Focus on Consciousness This Tuesday evening series will explore a classic Buddhist model of identity construction: the five aggregates affected by [...]

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  • Sutta Study – Los Altos

    Foothills Congregational Church – Fellowship Hall 461 Orange Ave, Los Altos, CA, United States

    This is our first session in the 2015 Sutta Study Course on the Numerical Discourses of the Buddha with Shaila Catherine We offer sutta study courses in three locations to serve the local and online community. See the Sutta Study page for description, details, and registration information for the course.