South Bay InsightLA
South Bay Study Group
Third Thursday of the Month
7:00 - 9:00 pm
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Our South Bay monthly study group aspires to be a community based in spiritual friendship and good will. The Buddha teaches that no other external factor does so much for the development of awakening as spiritual friendship.​​
South Bay InsightLA Teacher - Eric McCullum
Registration:
Email Eric at
eric@insightla.org
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About Our 2025 - 2026 Study Group Plan
​Our South Bay Study Group is starting up again and this year we will explore When Awareness Becomes Natural: A Guide to Cultivating Mindfulness in Everyday by Sayadaw U Tejaniya. It is a refreshingly modern and engaging guide to bringing mindfulness into everyday life, from doing laundry to data entry, and discovering that “any object is the right object” when observed with awareness."
During our course there will be monthly suggested readings. We’re asking you to commit to a daily practice and to attending all monthly meetings (extenuating circumstances aside).
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There is a suggested donation of $20/class (optional and not required). All donations/money raised will be given to charities that are collectively agreed on at the end of the year.
Email Eric at eric@insightla.org for more information and registration. See the map below for the location of our meetings.​
About Our Text
When Awareness Becomes Natural: A Guide to Cultivating Mindfulness in Everyday Life
by Sayadaw U Tejaniya
The flame of wisdom can be kindled in the midst of any life, even one that might seem too full of personal and professional commitments to allow for it. Such is the teaching of Sayadaw U Tejaniya, who himself learned to cultivate awareness in the raucous years he spent in the Burmese textile business before taking his final monastic ordination at the age of thirty-six. Train yourself to be aware of the clinging and aversion that arise in any situation, he teaches. If you can learn to do that, calm and deep insight will naturally follow. It’s a method that works as well for sorting the laundry or doing data entry as it does in formal sitting meditation. “The object of attention is not really important,” he teaches, “the observing mind that is working in the background to be aware is of real importance. If the observing is done with the right attitude, any object is the right object.”
From the Publisher, Shambhala
"This is the work of an eminently skilled meditation master who uses many examples from his own life and practice to help us understand and free our minds. There is both simplicity of expression and subtlety of understanding in Sayadaw’s teachings, and they will be of great help to both beginning and experienced meditators. Highly recommended."
Joseph Goldstein
"A wonderfully fresh and lively contribution, rooted in classical Theravadin tradition and at the same time of practical and contemporary relevance, illustrated by intimate, vivid personal examples of how dharma practice can help us all learn how to live with more wisdom and kindness."
Larry Rosenberg
Location
St. Cross Episcopal Church
1818 Monterey Avenue, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
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Room #4, Park anywhere in the St. Cross parking lot (free)