Pre-registration is not necessary for Sati Center daylong classes. These classes are offered freely, but your donations and support for these classes is appreciated. Bring your own lunch. Our daylong classes and presentations are held at IMC (108 Birch St., Redwood City, CA) unless otherwise indicated in the class description.
2012 Sati Center Course Offerings
- March 10, 2012, 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM – From Emptiness to Form and Back: Tracing the History of Buddhist Art from the Time of the Buddha to the Present with Tony Bernhard and Joan DePaoli
In the 2500 years since the Buddha, his teachings have been passed along in talks, writings, and artistic creations. This daylong will trace the development of Buddhist art and the role this art has had in the lives of Buddhist practitioners and in teaching the Dharma. The day will include a demonstration of the Zen practice of “flung ink” painting. Please see the printable flyer for this daylong.
Joan DePaoli is an artist, art historian, author and lecturer, and is also a curator who, since 1970, has presented exhibitions of Buddhist art in both Thailand and the United States. She has been a Zen and Vipassana practitioner for 30 years. In 1990 she collaborated on The Trans Parent Thread: Asian Philosophy in Recent American Art, both the exhibition and the book. She is currently a Dedicated Practitioner Program student at Spirit Rock and is working on a DVD, History of Buddhist Art, with Tony Bernhard.
Tony Bernhard is one of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leaders, sits on the Spirit Rock Planning Committee and on the Board of the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies, leads sitting groups in Davis, and teaches in and around the Bay Area.
- April 14, 2012, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM – Buddhist Chaplaincy: An Overview with Rev. Daijaku Judith Kinst and Rev. Jennifer Block
Note: this daylong will be held at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley.Chaplains provide spiritual care and support to people in places such as hospitals, hospices, prisons and a wide variety of other settings. The work is wonderfully challenging and satisfying. In recent years, dharma practitioners have been experiencing chaplaincy as a powerful opportunity to practice engaged Buddhism, and for some, as a vocation and profession.Join us for an explanation of this field of service, which is gaining in size and scope in dharma communities. Professional chaplains and educators will introduce aspects of chaplaincy, including: a definition of chaplaincy, the history of chaplaincy, settings where chaplains serve, and the steps one can take to become a volunteer or professional chaplain (including educational requirements) as a Buddhist practitioner.Co-sponsored by: The Sati Center for Buddhist Studies (www.sati.org) and The Institute of Buddhist Studies (www.shin-ibs.edu)
Schedule
9:30 Registration; Greeting; Sitting10:00 Welcome: intros, purpose/overview of the day
10:15 What is a chaplain?; What is spiritual care?
12:00 A day in the life of a chaplain
1:00 Lunch Break
2:00 What is a Buddhistchaplain?2:45 Path to becoming an employed chaplain:
4:00 Breakout sessions: IBS program w/Jaku and Sati training w/Jennifer
5:00 End; dedication of merit
Reverend Daijaku Judith Kinst, Ph.D. is the coordinator and primary professor for the Buddhist Chaplaincy program at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, a graduate school affiliated with the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and Ryukoku University, Kyoto. After ordination and formal Soto Zen priest training, Daijaku completed an MA in Western psychology, licensure as an MFT, and a PhD in Psychology and Buddhism. During this time she also trained as a chaplain at the UCSF Medical Center’s Clinical Pastoral Education program. She is a dharma successor in the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki roshi and, with Rev. Shinshu Roberts is the Guiding Teacher of the Ocean Gate Zen Zendo in Capitola, California. She has taught and led retreats with teachers from a variety of Buddhist traditions, and maintains a pastoral counseling and spiritual direction practice in San Francisco. daijaku@shin-ibs.edu
Reverend Jennifer Block, M.A., serves as the director of Public Education and Chaplain for the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco, California, creating curriculum, teaching workshops, offering spiritual care, and providing community outreach. With Gil Fronsdal and Paul Haller, Jennifer founded the Buddhist Chaplaincy Training program at the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies where Buddhist practitioners are introduced to the competencies of professional spiritual care. Jennifer completed her undergraduate degree at Boston University, and her theology degree at Naropa University, and is an ordained Interfaith minister and Buddhist chaplain. revjblock@gmail.com
- April 28, 2012, 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM – Papanca with Thanissaro Bhikkhu
When discussing the sources of conflict—inner and outer—the Buddha pointed to a type of thinking he called papañca. This term is often translated as “conceptual proliferation,” but a survey of how it’s discussed in the Pali Canon shows that it has less to do with the amount of thinking and more with the way thinking is framed. This daylong course will focus on understanding what papañca is, how it happens, when it has its uses, and how the need for it can eventually be overcome.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)
is an American monk of the Thai forest tradition. In 1991 he traveled to the hills of San Diego County, CA,where he helped establish Metta Forest Monastery, where he is the abbot. He is a prolific writer and translator. Many of his works can be found online at www.accesstoinsight.org.There will be a meal offering for Ajahn Thanissaro and other monastics in attendance. If you would like, please bring food to offer at that time.