               SITTING/PRACTICE GROUPS -- CALIFORNIA

  ALBANY
        Community of Mindful Living
        850 Talbot Avenue, Albany
        510-527-3751
        [Source: Community of Mindful Living 5/94]


  BERKELEY
        Mona Bernstein
        2420 Sacramento Street, Berkeley
        510-486-8107
        [Source: Community of Mindful Living 5/94]

        Jennifer Biehn
        2230 Ward Street, Berkeley
        510-843-0548
        [Source: Community of Mindful Living 5/94]

        Edie Hartshorne
        Berkeley
        510-843-5504
        [Source: Community of Mindful Living 5/94]

   COTATI
        Peggy Denial
        9175 Poplar Avenue, Cotati
        707-792-2635
        [Source: Community of Mindful Living 5/94]

        Ellen Peskin
        6409 Hillegass Ave, Oakland
        510-654-1810
        [Source: Community of Mindful Living 5/94]

   FAIRFAX
         Evelyn Sweeney
         47 Alhambra Circle
         Fairfax, CA  94930
         [Source: DSTL 3/94]


   JOSHUA TREE
        Ruth Denison
        Dhamma Dena
        HCI - Box 250
        Joshua Tree, CA  92252
        (619) 362-4815
        [Source: DSTL 3/94]

  
   LOS ANGELES
        College of Buddhist Studies
        939 S. New Hampshire Avenue
        Los Angeles, CA  90006
        [Source: DSTL 3/94]

        Gay Buddhist Zen Group
        Norman McClelland (Rev. Vajra Karuna)
        P.O. Box 29750
        Los Angeles, CA 90029
        (213) 461-5042
        [Source: DSTL 3/94]
  
        Rinzai-ji Zen Center
        2505  Cimarron Street
        Los Angeles, CA  90018
        (213) 732-2263
        [Source: DSTL 3/94]

   MUIR BEACH
        Wendy Johnson
        Highway 1, Muir Beach
        415-383-3134
        [Source: Community of Mindful Living 5/94]

   OAKLAND
        Jamie Baraz
        6169 Harwood Ave.
        Oakland, CA  94618
        (415) 655-9623
        Group Sit: Sunday 8:15-9:15pm
        Support Group: Monday 7:30-9:30p
        [Source: DSTL 3/94]
  
   SAN DIEGO
        Mark Berger
        San Diego Vipassana Meditation Society
        1335 Santa Barbara Street
        San Diego, CA  92107
        (619) 225-0817
        [Source: DSTL 3/94]
  
   SAN FRANCISCO:

        Meditation & Dhamma talk by Ajahn Amaro & monastics from the
                Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, England
        Time: Wednesday evening, 7:30-9:30 pm
        Where: St. Aidan's Episcopal Church
                Diamond Heights, San Francisco
                (Across from Diamond Heights Shopping Center)
        Please bring sitting zafus and shawls as desired; pews are
        available. As always, spontaneous dana is the sole means of
        covering the costs for these evenings.
        Contact: Sanghapala Vihara, 75 H Lane, Novato, CA 94945
        Tel: (415) 892-7529
        Directions:
         * FROM SAN FRANCISCO: get to Diamond Heights Blvd
          (either from Upper Market St = Portola) or via Duncan Street
          off of Diamond St. after 28th St.); the Church is directly
          across street from the Safeway in the Diamond Heights Shopping
          Center.
         * FROM THE GLEN PARK BART: take the #52 bus to Diamond Heights
          Shopping Center.
         * FROM 101 (NORTH OR SOUTH): get on to 280-West Detour towards
          Daly City -- get off at 2nd exit, called Monterey Blvd, and at
          end of ramp (at traffic light) take hairpin turn to the
          right.. . continue for 50 yds, and take a left at the blinking
          light onto the foot of Diamond St. (BART is at this corner); 1
          block later at the traffic light take a left onto Bosworth --
          then approximately l/4 mile turn right on Elk St. (this is at
          the crest of a hill, with playgrounds to the left) --
         ++ CONTINUE ++ Up the steep hill as this road changes its name
          to Diamond Heights Blvd.; after a second stop sign near the
          crest of the hill, St. Aidan's Episcopal Church is on the left
          at the corner of Gold Mine
         * FROM 280-NORTH: bear right towards San Francisco as 280
          divides (and splits to 19th Ave to the left), and continue 2
          miles to exit at San Jose-Bosworth; the exit ramp goes beneath
          a short tunnel, and 50 yds. after this take the very first
          possible right turn at Rousseau St. (Ray Oil Burner Co. is on
          comer); go down hill this short block and take a right at the
          stop sign onto Bosworth. ..this curves to the right with
          another Stop, passes beneath the freeway, and comes up to the
          traffic light at Diamond (BART is on your left). . . continue
          on Bosworth through the light, and approximately 1/4 miles
          later take a right on Elk,
         ++ CONTINUE ++ AS ABOVE
        [Source: Sanghapala, 11/94]

        Gay Men's Vipassana/Zen Sitting Group
        155 Dolores Street #5
        San Francisco
        [Source: Greg (geichle@eis.calstate.edu) 5/94]

        Helen Stoltfus & Alan Greenberg
        3524 -19th St (off Valencia), SF
        415-626-0943
        [Source: Community of Mindful Living 5/94]

        Howie Cohn
        675 Dolores Street
        San Francisco, CA  94110
        (415) 821-6378
        [Source: DSTL 3/94]
  
        San Francisco Zen Center
        300 Page Street
        San Francisco, CA  94102
        (415) 863-3136
        [Source: DSTL 3/94]
  
  SANTA CRUZ
        Santa Cruz Zen Center
        113 School Street
        Santa Cruz, CA  95060
        (408) 457-0169
        [Source: DSTL 3/94]

  SANTA ROSA
        Robert Hall
        CARE
        666 -7th Avenue (1 block east of Mendocino)
        707-579-0465
        Wednesdays, 7:30-9:30pm
        [Source: BAYBUDST 1/94]
  
  SEA RANCH
        Dianne McKenzie
        P.O. Box 337
        Sea Ranch, CA  95497
        (707) 785-2567
        [Source: DSTL 3/94]
  
   SEBASTOPOL
        Mondays, 7pm.
        Marg Starbuck & Bill Boykin. 707-829-6796.
        [Source: BAYBUDST 1/94]

        Thursdays, 7pm.
        Grendel Winkler. 707-829-7326.
        [Source: BAYBUDST 1/94]

        1st Sunday monthly, 10am-noon.
        Robert Leverant. 707-823-0818.
        [Source: BAYBUDST 1/94]

        3rd Sunday monthly, 10am-1pm.
        Carol Browning. 707-823-2349.
        [Source: BAYBUDST 1/94]


   SONOMA
        Marjorie B. Moench
        P.O. Box 268
        Sonoma, CA 95476
        (707) 938-2913
        [Source: DSTL 3/94]

   VENICE
        Christopher Reed
        Michele Benzomin-Maruda
        Ordinary Dharma
        247 Horizon Avenue
        Venice, CA  90291
        (310) 396-5054
        Wed eve  7:30-9:00 pm (Intro Class)
        Tue eve  7:30-9:00 pm
        1st and 3rd Sundays  9 am - 3p pm
        Weekday Mornings   6:30-7:30 am
        ALSO: WARNER SPRINGS (619) 782-9223
        "Manzanita Village" sittings daily morning and evening
        [Source: DSTL 3/94]

   WOODACRE
        Mary Ann Clark
        5000 Sir Francis Drake, Woodacre
        415-488-0164
        [Source: Community of Mindful Living 5/94]

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