About Richard

Richard Shankman lives in Oakland, CA. He has been a meditator since 1970 and teaches regularly at dharma centers and groups throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the co-teacher of the Wednesday Night Meditation Group in the East Bay. Richard has been active in bringing meditation and dharma to prisons and schools, and is a co-founder of the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies and the Community Partnership for Mindfulness in Education. He may be contacted at Richard@sati.org. Richard is the author of a forthcoming book “The Experience of Samadhi: An In-Depth Investigation of Buddhist Meditation” to be published by Shambhala Publications in December.