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Shaila Catherine"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

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

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Shaila Catherine: Patience

Shaila Catherine"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2025/07/24

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) In this brief reflection, Shaila Catherine speaks about the role of patience in meditation practice. We need patience to endure conditions that we cannot control, such as heat and cold, mosquito bites, and unpleasant or wanted perceptions. We need patience to continue to cultivate mindfulness without judging our degree of success. We need patience to trust the spiritual faculties of faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom to gradually

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41:50

Shaila Catherine: What Must Be Known

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2025/07/21

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) In this talk, Shaila Catherine encourages meditative investigation and curiosity to know the mind well. The teaching is based on AN 6.131, that instructs meditators to know 6 things (sensual desire, feelings, perceptions, taints, kamma/action, suffering) in 6 ways (the phenomena as it appears, causes/origins, diversity, outcome/effects, cessation, and way leading to cessation).

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34:49

Shaila Catherine: A Detailed Guided Meditation:...

Shaila Catherine"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2024/07/25

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) In this recording, Shaila Catherine offers detailed instructions in the form of a guided meditation for systematically cultivating sympathetic joy (mudita). The method involves directing attention to beings who occupy a variety of categories, while the meditator reflects on phrases that stimulate an attitude of rejoicing. Mudita is a powerful quality that uproots envy, ends jealously, and overcomes aversion, chronic comparing, and excessive

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11:26

Shaila Catherine: Not yet titled

Shaila Catherine"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2024/07/25

(Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley)

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16:47

Shaila Catherine: Guided Meditation: Building All the...

Shaila Catherine"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2024/07/19

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) In this guided meditation, Shaila Catherine highlights the powerful role that concentration plays as we cultivate the awakening factors. The instructions slowly walk through the sequence of Awakening Factors demonstrating how they create the conditions for the next factor in the sequence, and then explores various qualities of the collected mind and choices the meditator may make to further develop the mind once samadhi has been established.

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45:51

Shaila Catherine: Guided Meditation: Cultivating...

Shaila Catherine"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2024/07/18

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This is a long guided meditation in which Shaila Catherine offers systematic instruction for cultivating loving kindness (metta) and compassion (karuna) through the use of intention filled phrases directed toward beings in various categories.

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40:04

Shaila Catherine: Metta and the Hindrances

Shaila Catherine"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2024/07/03

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Shaila Catherine describes how the wholesome state of mettā serves not only as an antidote to anger, fear, and ill will, but is also a force that can overcome all the hindrances. A mind imbued with mettā is both strong and yielding; it is balanced and upright. Mettā contributes to both the development of samādhi and also insight. A mind strengthened by mettā will be able to face the unsatisfactory conditions of dukkha with clarity and balance, without

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22:04

Shaila Catherine: Advice to the Dying: Don’t Cling to...

Shaila Catherine"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2022/11/22

(Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley) This guided meditation offers a comprehensive training in non-attachment and letting go. The instructions list various objects and perceptions that one might be attached to, and recommend that we train ourselves to not cling to each item. It follows the advice that Venerable Sariputta offered to the lay disciple Anathapindika on his deathbed. It is essentially a reading of the discourse of Advice to Anathapindika (Middle Length Discourses 143) with

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52:20

Shaila Catherine: Opening Session

Shaila Catherine"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2022/09/13

(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)

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29:30

Shaila Catherine: Beyond Distraction: Five Practical...

Shaila Catherine"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2022/04/12

(Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley) On the occasion of the publication of her third book, Beyond Distraction: Five Practical Ways to Free the Mind, Shaila Catherine shares a progressive series of strategies to overcome the hindrances of restlessness, obsessive thinking, and rumination; dispel thoughts of anger, hatred, and anxiety; and curb habitual distractions. By freeing the mind from the fetter of restlessness, meditators can calm their minds, develop tranquility, strengthen

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23:57

Shaila Catherine: Guided Meditation: Beyond...

Shaila Catherine"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2022/04/12

(Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley) In this guided meditation, Shaila Catherine introduces a progressive series of strategies to overcome restlessness, obsessive thinking, rumination, and habitual obstacles and hindrances. By freeing the mind from the fetter of restlessness, meditators calm their minds, develop tranquility, strengthen concentration, create the conditions for jhana, and incline the mind toward liberating insight and nibbana. These teachings are based on two suttas (19

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22:44

Shaila Catherine: Refraining from Intoxication

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2021/04/06

(Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley) This talk explores the fifth precept: the commitment to refrain from intoxicating the mind through the use of alcohol, drugs, or addictive desires. Originally this precept highlighted the dangers of home-brewed alcohol, but can be expanded to address the many ways we may seek to excite, dull, distort, or intoxicate our minds. By working with this precept, we not only strengthen our capacity for restraint, but importantly, we investigate how the force

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45:06

Shaila Catherine: Cultivating Patience

Shaila Catherine"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2020/06/30

(Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley) Shaila Catherine discusses the importance of patience in our practice. This talk explores benefits, opportunities, and challenges that we experience when cultivating this often under appreciated virtue of patience.

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17:16

Shaila Catherine: Dawn of the Liberating Path -...

Shaila Catherine"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2019/12/21

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Buddha teaches that, just as the dawn precedes the rising sun, so developing certain qualities prepares us for fully engaging in our practice of the Noble Eightfold Path. Seven of these qualities are taught in the Magga Samyutta (SN 45:49-90): good friends, and the accomplishments in virtue, desire, self, view, diligence, and careful attention. This series of brief talks, Shaila Catherine introduces each of these qualities and illuminates how their

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15:42

Shaila Catherine: Dawn of the Liberating Path -...

Shaila Catherine"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2019/12/18

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Buddha teaches that, just as the dawn precedes the rising sun, so developing certain qualities prepares us for fully engaging in our practice of the Noble Eightfold Path. Seven of these qualities are taught in the Magga Samyutta (SN 45:49-90): good friends, and the accomplishments in virtue, desire, self, view, diligence, and careful attention. This series of brief talks, Shaila Catherine introduces each of these qualities and illuminates how their

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47:22

Shaila Catherine: Ways to Awaken: Five Ways to Become...

Shaila Catherine"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2019/12/17

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) In this talk, Shaila Catherine explores five ways that one may become fully awakened—an arahant. The teaching is based on a discourse found in the Anguttara Nikaya (AN 5:26). These ways include awakening 1) by listening to someone teach the dhamma, 2) while teaching the dhamma, 3) by reciting the teachings in detail as one has learned them, 4) while pondering, examining and investigating the dhamma, and 5) through penetrative wisdom with an object of

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17:22

Shaila Catherine: Dawn of the Liberating Path -...

Shaila Catherine"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2019/12/16

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Buddha teaches that, just as the dawn precedes the rising sun, so developing certain qualities prepares us for fully engaging in our practice of the Noble Eightfold Path. Seven of these qualities are taught in the Magga Samyutta (SN 45:49-90): good friends, and the accomplishments in virtue, desire, self, view, diligence, and careful attention. This series of brief talks, Shaila Catherine introduces each of these qualities and illuminates how their

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22:37

Shaila Catherine: Dawn of the Liberating Path -...

Shaila Catherine"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2019/12/11

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Buddha teaches that, just as the dawn precedes the rising sun, so developing certain qualities prepares us for fully engaging in our practice of the Noble Eightfold Path. Seven of these qualities are taught in the Magga Samyutta (SN 45:49-90): good friends, and the accomplishments in virtue, desire, self, view, diligence, and careful attention. This series of brief talks, Shaila Catherine introduces each of these qualities and illuminates how their

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35:19

Shaila Catherine: Power Of Balance

Shaila Catherine"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2019/12/10

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) In this talk, Shaila Catherine suggests that everyone is responsible for their own state of balance. She explores several practical areas for cultivating a balanced approach to practice including: aligning the body posture with the force of gravity, recognizing how mindfulness brings a balanced relationship to sensory experiences, and cultivating a non-reactive attitude toward both pleasant and unpleasant feelings. We learn to quickly restore our

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15:48

Shaila Catherine: Dawn of the Liberating Path -...

Shaila Catherine"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2019/12/09

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Buddha teaches that, just as the dawn precedes the rising sun, so developing certain qualities prepares us for fully engaging in our practice of the Noble Eightfold Path. Seven of these qualities are taught in the Magga Samyutta (SN 45:49-90): good friends, and the accomplishments in virtue, desire, self, view, diligence, and careful attention. This series of brief talks, Shaila Catherine introduces each of these qualities and illuminates how their

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