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Catherine Ingram is an international dharma teacher with
communities in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Since 1992 she has led
Dharma Dialogues, which are public events of inquiry into the nature of
awareness and the possibility of living an ethical and happy life.
Catherine also leads numerous silent retreats each year in conjunction
with Dharma Dialogues. She is president of Living Dharma, an
educational non-profit organization dedicated to inquiry and service
with offices in Oakland, California.
She has been the subject of numerous print,
television,and radio interviews and is included in several anthologies
about teachers in the west.
A former journalist specializing in issues of
consciousness and activism, Catherine Ingram is the author of two books
of nonfiction, In the Footsteps of Gandhi: Conversations with
Spiritual/Social Activists (Parallax Press, 1990), Passionate
Presence: Seven Qualities of Awakened Awareness (Penguin Putnam,
2003) and one novel, A Crack in Everything (Diamond Books,
2006). Passionate Presence is also published in seven other
languages in Europe and Asia. Over a fifteen-year period beginning in
1982, she published approximately 100 articles and served on the
editorial staffs of New Age Journal, East West Journal, (in house
editor) and Yoga Journal (contributing editor). She currently writes
the Life Advice column for Alternatives Magazine based in Oregon.
For the past twenty-five years, Catherine has helped
organize and direct institutions dedicated to awareness and service.
She is a co-founder of Insight Meditation Society in Barre,
Massachusetts (1976). She also co-founded the Unrepresented Nations and
Peoples Organization (UNPO) in The Hague, Netherlands (1991) and is a
member of the Committee of 100 for Tibet. For six years (1988-1994),
Catherine served as a board director for The Burma Project, dedicated
to raising international awareness about the struggle for democracy in
Burma.
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