Shaila Catherine's Dharma Talks
Shaila Catherine
Shaila Catherine is the founder of Bodhi Courses (bodhicourses.org) an online Dhamma classroom, and Insight Meditation South Bay, a meditation center in Mountain View, California (imsb.org). She has practiced meditation since 1980, with more than nine years of accumulated silent retreat experience, and has taught since 1996 in the USA, and internationally. Shaila has dedicated several years to studying with masters in India, Nepal and Thailand, completed a one year intensive meditation retreat with the focus on concentration and jhana, and authored The Jhanas: A Practical Guide to Deep Meditative States (Wisdom Publications). From 2006–2014, Shaila studied jhana and vipassana under the direction of Venerable Pa-Auk Sayadaw, and authored Wisdom Wide and Deep: A Practical Handbook for Mastering Jhana and Vipassana (Wisdom Publications, 2011) to make his systematic approach of meditative training accessible to western practitioners. Her third book, Beyond Distraction: Five Practical Ways to Focus the Mind, teaches skills to overcome restless thinking, rumination, and obstructive habitual patterns. Shaila’s teachings are characterized by precision, diligence, and gentleness. She emphasizes deep samadhi, jhāna, loving kindness, and the path of liberating insight.
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2022-11-22
Advice to the Dying: Don’t Cling to Anything
2017-09-12
Angulimala: An Ethical Transformation
2009-06-02
Appreciative Joy
2013-02-09
Awakening
2016-02-04
Balanced Practice
2022-04-12
Beyond Distraction: Five Practical Ways to Free the Mind
2007-10-04
Big Mind Guided Meditation
2014-09-23
Body: A Matter of Life
2013-03-05
Boredom
2014-09-16
Breath: An Intimate Focus for Attention
2020-01-07
Buddha's Core Teachings: Finding True Happiness Through the Four Noble Truths
2016-05-24
Buddha's Practical Advice for Maintaining Material Gains and Wealth
2015-07-09
Buddhism in Brief
2012-01-24
Buddhist Perspectives on Right View
2018-04-24
Commitment to Enlightenment
2009-05-26
Compassion
2013-09-29
Contentment with Voidness
2012-01-31
Cultivating Liberating Understanding
2016-06-09
Cultivating Mindfulness
2020-06-30
Cultivating Patience
2012-02-21
Danger of Fixation
2019-12-21
Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment in Careful Attention
2019-12-18
Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment in Diligence
2019-12-16
Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment in Self
2019-12-11
Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment of Desire
2019-12-09
Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment of View
2019-12-04
Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment of Virtue
2019-12-04
Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishments
2011-04-23
Decision Making
2011-12-10
Deep Happiness by Venerable U Jagara and Shaila Catherine
2011-12-10
Deep Happiness by Venerable U Jagara and Shaila Catherine - Guided Meditation 3
2011-12-10
Deep Happiness by Venerable U Jagara and Shaila Catherine -First Guided Meditat…
2014-12-27
Deep Peace
2013-03-09
Deep Presence
2002-12-22
Desire for Enlightenment
2003-08-22
Distraction and the Nature of Mind
2012-05-08
Dynamics of Emotion
2007-10-01
Effort + Ease = What Needs To Be Done
2015-10-15
Eight-Fold Path of Awakening
2009-06-09
Equanimity
2016-05-26
Equanimity, Our Greatest Friend
2015-09-09
Equanimity: Equally Close To All Things
2016-07-07
Ethics, Action and the Five Precepts
2015-07-21
Ethics, Action, and the Five Precepts
2004-11-23
Featured Guided Meditations
2017-12-19
Feeling Emotions on the Meditative Path of Awakening
2013-08-20
Five Preconditions for Insight: Engage in Talk of the Dhamma (the third precond…
2013-08-06
Five Preconditions for Insight: Friendship (the first precondition)
2013-08-13
Five Preconditions for Insight: Virtue and Restraint (the second precondition)
2013-09-10
Five Preconditions for Insight: Wisdom (the fifth precondition)
2013-09-03
Five Preconditions for Insight: Wise Effort (the fourth precondition)
2009-05-19
Four Brahma Viharas
2011-04-19
Four Elements Meditation—Instructional Talk and Guided Meditation
2016-09-29
Four Noble Truths
2016-10-20
Fourth Noble Truth
2015-07-09
Fundamental Buddhist Principles 2015
2018-04-24
Goals in Meditation
2017-11-21
Gratitude
2007-10-04
Guided Big Mind Meditation
2009-05-19
Guided Loving Kindness (Metta) Meditation
2022-04-12
Guided Meditation: Beyond Distraction — Five Strategies to Remove Distracting T…
2017-03-07
Guided Metta Meditation Toward Groups
2011-05-21
Habits, Action and Personality
2014-03-15
Happiness and the Gladness of Non-remorse
2014-03-15
Happiness of a Concentrated Mind—Talk and Guided Meditation
2014-03-15
Happiness of Simplicity and Renunciation
2008-02-19
Heavenly Messengers—Aging, Illness, and Death
2015-07-28
How Conduct Bears Fruit: Training in Not Killing
2019-12-03
How Meditation Supports the Path of Awakening
2013-05-28
I-Making & Mine-Making Constructing Self
2015-08-17
Ignorance and Delusion
2016-01-07
Impermanence: Beyond the Rise and Fall of Things that Change
2008-04-15
Intensive Retreat
2019-06-19
Intention and the Power of Thought
2013-10-01
Investigating Aversion and Anger
2007-10-04
Investigating The Nature Of Mind
2014-10-21
Kamma and Intention: A Fresh Start
2017-07-18
Living Wisely in the World: Caring for Mind, Family, Society, and Planet
2009-05-19
Loving Kindness
2017-10-17
Mahakaccana: Clarifying the Most Cryptic Teachings
2014-10-14
Many Kinds of Thoughts
2010-02-09
Meditating on the Body
2012-05-08
Meditation and the Emotional Landscape
2019-07-16
Meditation in Hard Times
2012-03-10
Meditations on Mind: Learning to Recognize, Accept, Investigate, and Not-Identi…
2004-11-23
Metta Guided Meditation
2020-02-11
Mindfulness
2016-02-25
Mindfulness and Compassion: Protecting Oneself and Others
2015-01-01
Mindfulness of Mind
2016-06-16
Mindfulness of the Body
2020-02-04
Mindfulness of the Body: A Guided Meditation with Sequential Touch Sensations
2014-05-27
Mindfulness Sacred or Secular?
2016-06-09
Mindfulness with Breathing
2021-10-14
Mindfulness with Breathing: Observing the Long & Short Breaths
2015-01-02
Nibbana Reflections
2012-02-07
Opinions and Truth
2019-12-10
Power Of Balance
2015-07-21
Precepts: The Gift of Fearlessness
2016-04-29
Proliferation of Planning
2007-10-05
Questions & Answers On Ultimate & Relative Understanding
2016-03-01
Recollection of Heavens
2016-01-19
Recollection of the Buddha
2010-10-05
Recollection of the Buddha-part of a three part series on the Triple Gem: As Re…
2010-11-09
Recollection of the Dhamma-part of a three part series on the Triple Gem: As Re…
2016-02-23
Recollection of the Sangha
2010-12-14
Recollection of the Sangha-part of a three part series on the Triple Gem: As Re…
2016-01-19
Recollective Meditations
2017-03-10
Refinement of Happiness
2016-07-28
Refrain from False Speech
2016-07-14
Refrain from Stealing
2021-04-06
Refraining from Intoxication
2021-03-09
Refraining from Sexual Misconduct
2015-12-10
Right Concentration
2014-07-01
Roles, Relationships, and Awakening
2016-10-06
Second Noble Truth
2016-04-14
Seven Factors of Awakening
2009-03-10
Simplicity Of Being
2001-07-05
Sloth and Torpor and Restlessness
2020-02-04
Suffering and Its End
2019-07-16
Taking the Problem out of Pain
2015-05-19
The Giver, Gift. and Receiver
2017-09-12
The Great Disciples: People and Personalities in the Buddha's Community
2007-10-16
The Hindrances: Doubt
2012-07-31
The Liberating Path
2017-12-09
The Peace of Not-Clinging: A Guided Meditation
2017-08-29
The Role of Feelings and Emotions in Decision Making
2020-02-11
The Seven Factors of Awakening
2009-05-19
The Ten Paramis
2003-08-18
The Thought of I, Me and Mine
2014-03-15
The Unsurpassed Happiness of Insight and Liberation
2017-10-03
Three Aspects of Concentration and the Simile of the Goldsmith: A Guided Medita…
2016-04-12
Thus Have I Heard
2016-01-03
Translations, Numbers, and the Anguttara Nikaya -- Shaila Catherine Interviews …
2010-10-05
Triple Gem: As Refuge, Inspiration, and Meditation Practice
2015-09-24
Voices for a Contemplative Life in Silicon Valley
2019-12-17
Ways to Awaken: Five Ways to Become An Arahant
2012-01-24
What is Right View
2012-02-14
What Must Be Known
2014-07-01
Where Rubber Meets the Road: A Series on Mindful Living
2012-02-09
Wisdom Wide and Deep
2017-12-09
Working with Hindrances in Meditation: A Guided Meditation Instruction
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Select one of Shaila Catherine's 9 retreats
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1900-01-01
IMCB Regular Talks
2000-01-01
Tuesday Talks
2007-09-30
Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual
2009-06-02
Four Brahma Viharas
2011-01-04
Everyday Dhamma—Teachings for the Lay Life
2011-01-04
Tuesday Talks—2011
2012-01-01
Tuesday Talks—2012
2013-01-01
Saturday Talks - 2013
2019-12-01
December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2001-07-05
Sloth and Torpor and Restlessness
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Hindrances and habits prevent us from experiencing a natural and peaceful radiance of mind. Meditators learn to make peace with obstacles. We learn to work skillfully with the hindrances. Sloth and torpor and restlessness are common energetic imbalances that either dull the mind into sleepiness and laziness, or agitate the mind by promoting worry and anxiety. This talk examines the causes that produce the hindrances, and provides practical suggestions and tools for working with obstacles and overcoming their force.
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