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Support Jason Siff’s visit

US meditation teacher Jason intends to spend two weeks travelling around New Zealand at the end of the February 2011 visiting sitting groups to explain the practice of recollective awareness, in which people are invited to look more deeply into their own meditative process.

Each year, Jason spends a month in Australia where he offers residential retreats which focus on recollective awareness. His 2011 visit to New Zealand, the first time he will have been here, is an addition to the Australia trip. Information on the retreats he will be offering in Australia will be found on http://www.dharma.org.au towards the end of 2010.

Jason’s New Zealand visit is being coordinated by Ramsey Margolis.

 

Donate now

You can make a donation by internet banking by making a transfer into the ABET bank account at SBS Bank. The account number for the fund to pay Jason Siff’s travel costs is 03 - 1355 - 0600085 - 02. Or go into any New Zealand bank to make the payment -- preferably SBS Bank, or Westpac.

To make a donation using your VISA or Mastercard click on the Donate button below. Whichever country your card was issued in, your donation will be in New Zealand dollars.

The figure above for the amount raised is what has been donated through givealittle. The fund for Jason Siff currently contains $4.37 (25 July 2010).

 

About Jason Siff

As a buddhist monk in Sri Lanka in the late 1980s, Jason Siff began studying Pali and teaching meditation. Leaving the monastic order in 1990, he returned to Los Angeles where he studied counselling psychology and worked as an intern for four years. At the end of his internship he decided to devote his life to meditation teaching instead of practicing psychotherapy.

He co-founded the Skillful Meditation Project, further developing his own approach to awareness meditation practice, which is called recollective awareness. Since then he has been invited to teach by a number of buddhist communities in America, Canada and Australia. He has also taught at Esalen Institute, California, and the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Massachusetts.

His new book, Unlearning Meditation, is an excellent introduction to his teachings. Information on this book can be found here, and you can buy a copy through fishpond.co.nz here.

Jason’s other books include King Bimbisara’s Chronicler (Sarvodaya Vishwa Lekha, Sri Lanka, 2001), a work of fiction set in the Buddha’s time, and a new novel entitled Seeking Nibbana in Sri Lanka (Vajra Publications, Nepal, 2009). He has published articles in magazines and journals, including an article on the meditative process in the Spring 2005 Insight Journal.

More information on Jason, including a description of recollective awareness and a number of talks can be found at www.skillfulmeditation.org.

Jason was interviewed by Vincent Horn on the Buddhist Geeks podcast. You can read a transcript and listen to the interview here. 

 

New Zealand visit

  • Saturday 19 February to Friday 4 March 2011

To arrange a talk by Jason at your sitting group, send an email to Ramsey Margolis or phone/text 021 97 35 31