Located in Marin County, Spirit Rock offers silent meditation retreats, classes, trainings, and other dharma study opportunities to help deepen your meditation and dharma practice. IMCB is one of many sitting groups led by a Spirit Rock teacher.
The Wednesday Vipassana Community is led by Bonnie O’Brien Jonsson and Richard Shankman. They meet Wednesday evenings from 7:15 to 9:15 pm at St. John's Presbyterian Church, 2727 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA. For more information call 510-559-9290.
Besides hosting us each Thursday evening, Berkeley Buddhist Monastery maintains a full-schedule of classes and dharma activities, including daily open sitting meditation from 6:15 to 7:15 am and from 5:15 to 6:15 pm and daily evening chanting from 6:30 to 7:30 pm. The director of the monastery, Rev Heng Sure, has a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, teaches on the staff at the Institute for World Religions, and is a musician exploring the relationship between music and the dharma. He has often shared his teachings and music with IMCB.
The East Bay Meditation Center (EBMC) is an independent center located in downtown Oakland, at 2147 Broadway, just 2 blocks from the 19th Street BART station. EBMC offers meditation training and spiritual teachings from Buddhist and other wisdom traditions, with attention to social action, multiculturalism, and the diverse populations of the East Bay and beyond.
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A daylong retreat with Jack Kornfield is being held on Saturday, September 6, to benefit EBMC. See the EBMC website for more information and to register. Please plan to attend this important community event.
Bay Area Young Adult Sangha is an informal gathering of young dharma practitioners (mostly in their 20s and 30s) who live in the greater Bay Area. Their intention is to celebrate the great diversity of our region and welcome people of all backgrounds and spiritual traditions.
On the first Tuesday of each month, monastics from Abhayagiri present a dharma talk and lead the group in chanting and meditation from 7:30 to 9:30 pm at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, 2304 McKinley Avenue, Berkeley, CA.. The group is usually led by either Ajahn Amaro or Ajahn Passano. These meetings are an opportunity to directly experience the roots of our practice. Subscribe to their email list to receive notification of the meetings and other Abhayagiri events.
