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.
Visiting New Zealand to teach
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.
To arrange a talk by Jason at your sitting group, to send an email to Ramsey Margolis or phone/text 021 97 35 31.
Jason’s travel costs
Your generosity is sought! Contributing towards Jason's travel costs will make his teachings more available to more New Zealanders.
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You can make donations through Aotearoa Buddhist Education Trust. To find out how, visit http://www.abet.net.nz/.
Resources
You can get a taste of Jason's teachings from these audio files:
http://www.skillfulmeditation.org/audio/index.php
Contact Details
- Email: Click here to email Jason Siff
- Website: http://www.skillfulmeditation.org/