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Olive Branch Ranch
Santa Barbara, California |
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| Vipassana | |
| URL | here-and-now.org/IMS... |
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| Center's Description | |
| COME SIT WITH US We invite you to sit with us at our home. For the past three years we have been working to create here in Santa Barbara a rebirth of what we had at our previous residence. In the year 2000 we moved to Santa Barbara from Laguna Beach where we had hosted what we called a meditation support group. A sitting group met twice a week in our living room and we also offered classes in the vipassana meditation techniques of Shinzen Young. We had an eclectic group—our interests were not confined to the teachings of any one school, but most of us were learning from Buddhist teachers and were practicing vipassana (also known as mindfulness or insight meditation) in some form. We are very enthusiastic about starting a similar group and providing teaching here. More importantly, we want to help and encourage people to create deep practice. No amount of talk and teaching can substitute for silent sitting to apply the techniques and read the book of our own minds. A "meditation support group" is comprised of people who want to develop their meditation practice and share their experience with others. We sit and we also practice bringing meditation skills into our everyday lives. In other words, we are helping each other learn to have continuous mindfulness & equanimity with respect to the experience of the present moment. |
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