Mindfulness for Stress Reduction | MBSR in San Francisco with Augusta Hopkins

Still Forest Pool ~Ajahn Chah

Try to be mindful, and let things take their course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a still forest pool. All kinds of wonderful animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come […]

Thich Nhat Hanh

Teacher Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh is a global spiritual leader, poet and peace activist, revered throughout the world for his powerful teachings and bestselling writings on mindfulness and peace. His key teaching is that, through mindfulness, we can learn to live happily in the present moment—the only way to truly develop peace, both in […]

Meditation Groups in the East Bay

East Bay Sanghas in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh There are more than a dozen Thich Nhat Hanh sitting groups or sanghas (the Pali word for community) in the Bay Area.  This list will help you find them or this searchable directory.  I can personally recommend:  New Generation Sangha (Berkeley, Oakland) Potluck Sangha (Oakland […]

Fireflies: Pleasant, Unpleasant, Neutral

Augusta offers a Dharma Talk at SF Sangha on the Buddhist ideas of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral. She uses fireflies as an example of how the pleasant can become unpleasant if we are chasing after it or trying to posses it.

The Four Noble Truths, SF Sangha 13 May 2015

Augusta’s first Dharma Talk for SF Sangha in the new space (San Francisco’s Bethany United Methodist Church). The subject was The Four Noble Truths with a Thich Nhat Hanh twist. 1) There is a cause of happiness. 2) Happiness can be cultivated or sustained. 3)There is a cause of dissatisfaction. 4) Dissatisfaction can be eased.