Catherine
Ingram is an internationally known dharma teacher with communities
serving several thousand students in a dozen cities in the U.S.
and Europe. Since 1992 she has led Dharma Dialogues, which are
public events of inquiry into the nature of awareness and the
possibility of living in awakened intelligence. 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
Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles, California.
In 1999, The
Irish Independent listed Catherine among the "Who's Who of the
New Gurus". She has been the subject of numerous print and radio
interviews and is included in three anthologies about awakened
teachers in the west: The Awakening West, by Lynn Marie
Lumiere (Clear Visions Publications, 2000), The Teachers of
One, by Paula Marvelly, and Wide-Awake in the West,
by Quidam Green Meyers.
A former journalist
specializing in issues of consciousness and activism, Catherine
Ingram is the author of In the Footsteps of Gandhi: Conversations
with Spiritual/Social Activists (Parallax Press, 1990) and
Passionate Presence: Experiencing the Seven Qualities of Awakened
Awareness (Penguin Putnam, 2003). 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).
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), widely considered
the most prestigious Buddhist meditation center in the West. She
is also a co-founder of Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
(UNPO) in The Hague, Netherlands (1991). This organization represents
dispossessed nations and groups who are not recognized by the
U.N. in international forums throughout the world. For six years
(1988-1994), Catherine also 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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