Classes and Events
Video: Introduction to Samatha Meditation
Produced by UK Samatha Foundation, Wales
Alameda Center for Buddhist Meditation
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(Outside Staircase with Blue Canopy at end of Middle Wing toward Marina)
Alameda, CA 94501, USA
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Introduction to Samatha Meditation
Learn the 16 Stage of Samatha Meditation
10-week courses
(next sessions not yet schedule)
Sunday Mornings, 10:30am - 12:30pm Pacific
Thursday Evenings, 6:30am - 8:30pm Pacific
- at the Center
For information about joining future sessions,
contact Instructor
Melanie via Email .
Guided Practice and Dhamma Discussion
Mondays, 7-8:30 pm: with Melanie
First & Third & Fifth Monday On-Line via Zoom
Second & Fourth Monday at the Center
(see Calendar or contact Instructor).
Open to those who have learned the stages
of our Samatha practice up to the Settling.
Advance reading and Zoom link available
to signed-on Dhamma Exploration Members
on the Dhamma Class & Events page.
Guided Practice and Dhamma Discussion
Sundays- 3-5pm Pacific On-Line via Zoom
(cancelled July 20 -August 10, resuming August 17)
. Open to those who have learned
all 16 stages of our Samatha practice.
Advance reading and Zoom link available
to signed-on Dhamma Exploration Members
on the Dhamma Class & Events page.
SFNA Practices via Zoom
Saturday Morning
10-11:30am Central Time / 8-9:30am Pacific
To help us make the transition from zoomed to in-person group practices, and also to provide a cyber-sangha for those practitioners left behind when the universal zooming ends, the North American teachers will institute weekly zoomed practice led by a rota of North American teachers.
The teachers have agreed to start our exploration with a four-week rota of Mondays at 7:30 pm and Saturdays at 10 am (Central time) (= 2 meetings per week), and run the cycle for three rounds, at which time we will assess and adjust if and as needed.
The model we are using is that provided by the Samatha UK Wednesday pm practice. The only regularity there is that it always includes a practice (of some kind), but otherwise each teacher is free to arrange the session in any way that seems right to them, the one suggestion being that staying with an hour and a half is usual best practice.
Info available to
signed-on Dhamma Exploration Members
on the Dhamma Class & Events page.
For zoom invitation, please email Chris Morray-Jones.
Master List of Zoom Events from the
Samatha Foundation President Tom Lockhart
These classes and events are intended for those who have learned all sixteen stages of our Samatha breathing-mindfulness meditation practice.
List of Zoom Events available to
signed-on Dhamma Exploration Members
on the Dhamma Class & Events page.
For further information,
please email Chris Morray-Jones.
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