Anapanasati - Mindfulness of Breathing

* * * Following the Breath to Liberation * * *

Note: Program application at the very bottom of this page

Dates: September 20th to December 13th, 2015

Description: A small group of 16 students will meet once a week during the 3 month program to explore the teachings and practices within Mindfulness of Breathing sutta (MN118). With this one teaching the Buddha covered the entire scope of his teachings. We will focus on these teachings as a step by step path of greater purification and freedom within the body, heart and mind.

This Program consists of four daylong retreats, one weekly class, and meeting privately with the teacher throughout the program.
Daylongs from 9:45am-6pm on Sundays Sept 20, Oct 18, Nov 8 and Dec 13
Wednesday classes from 7pm-9pm in Berkeley (classes on November 11th and 25th are not happening)
Cost: $950-$750 sliding scale (work scholarships offered for those with lower incomes)
Prerequisites: At least two silent week-long mindfulness, insight or loving-kindness retreat within the last five years.

For more information please contact our registrar at tempel108@gmail.com

Tempel Smith began practicing intensive Insight and Metta retreats in 1989 under the guidance of Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein and Michele McDonald. He spent a year as a monk in Burma with Sayadaw U Pandita and Pa Auk Sayadaw, and has been teaching since 1997. He is the founder of BASE House, a collective of Buddhist activists and service providers. He also leads pilgrimages to Burma and India.

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