Shaila Catherine

Biography

SHAILA CATHERINE has been practicing meditation since 1980, with seven years of accumulated silent retreat experience. She has taught since 1996 in the USA, India, Israel, England, and New Zealand. Shaila studied at the Sharpham College for Buddhist Studies in England, and dedicated several years to studying with masters in India, Nepal and Thailand. In recent years Shaila has focused on developing deep concentration (jhana) as the basis for insight, completing a one year jhana based retreat at the Forest Refuge, and five months retreat with PaAuk Sayadaw of Burma. She founded Insight Meditation South Bay in Mountain View and authored Focused and Fearless: A Meditator's Guide to States of Deep Joy, Calm, and Clarity, published by Wisdom Publications 2008. Further information can be found at: www.imsb.org.


Website: bodhi-retreats.org

Talks


Topic Date Length
Patience     08/20/09 [Download] [Play] 41:47
The Noble Eightfold Path     12/14/08 [Download] [Play] 39:28
Happiness and the Focused Mind     05/09/08 [Download] [Play] 1:18:27
Impermanence and Beyond     12/30/07 [Download] [Play] 37:57
Effort and Non-Effort     09/20/07 [Download] [Play] 38:49
The Joy of Renunciation     02/22/07 [Download] [Play] 49:00
Broadening Mindfulness (3 of 3)     08/03/06 [Download] [Play] 44:47
Broadening Mindfulness (2 of 3)     07/27/06 [Download] [Play] 40:16
Broadening Mindfulness (1 of 3)     07/20/06 [Download] [Play] 40:37
Mindfulness of Experience as Function     08/25/05 [Download] [Play] 51:54
Mindfulness of Mind     08/18/05 [Download] [Play] 57:57
Mindfulness of Feelings     08/11/05 [Download] [Play] 48:22
Mindfulness of Body     08/04/05 [Download] [Play] 44:44
Equanimity: Our Greatest Friend     07/10/05 [Download] [Play] 42:44
Vipassana Is Insight     03/06/05 [Download] [Play] 39:55
A Single Excellent Night     02/28/05 [Download] [Play] 46:05
Beyond the Familiar     12/27/04 [Download] [Play] 39:35
Wisdom     12/16/04 [Download] [Play] 32:49
Concentration     12/09/04 [Download] [Play] 46:13
Practicing In Daily Life: Virtue     12/02/04 [Download] [Play] 45:38
Guided Metta Meditation     11/23/04 [Download] [Play] 34:05
Solitude     09/21/03 [Download] [Play] 43:59
The Nature of Thought     09/11/03 [Download] [Play] 47:28
Equanimity and Feeling     09/08/03 [Download] [Play] 36:30
Landscape of Emotion     09/04/03 [Download] [Play] 52:51
Embodied Awareness     08/28/03 [Download] [Play] 54:55
Effort and Diligence     12/26/02 [Download] [Play] 39:13
Desire for Enlightenment     12/22/02 [Download] [Play] 52:43
Truth     08/18/02 [Download] [Play] 54:30
Living Without Enemies     04/21/02 [Download] [Play] 44:49
5 Conditions for Insight     12/27/01 [Download] [Play] 43:09
Connection     08/06/01 [Download] [Play] 37:56
Sloth and Restlessness     07/05/01 [Download] [Play] 55:19
Craving     11/26/00 [Download] [Play] 58:57