These group are designed to deepen your meditation practice, build supportive relationships with other dedicated meditators, and maintain contact with Shaila Catherine between retreats. This series of six 90-minute meetings via Zoom gatherings will be somewhat like small group meetings at a […]
Virtue is an indispensable foundation of Buddhist practice. The precepts offer guidelines for the intentional development of compassion, concentration, mindfulness, and wisdom. By practicing deeply with the precepts we refine our intentional actions, […]
Cultivating Concentration and the Jhanas
A RETREAT with Shaila Catherine: October 1 – 11, 2026
This retreat will follow the approach to deepening concentration and attaining the absorption states of jhāna as described in Shaila Catherine’s book, The Jhanas, (previously published as Focused and Fearless). Instructions will use the breath as the […]
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RETREAT: May 5 – 15, 2026
This retreat will develop insight meditation practices using the structure of the six sense bases.
We will cultivate mindfulness of sensory experience, and contemplate the impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and not-self characteristics in contact with seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and mental activities. By clearly seeing the […]
