Programs

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  • April 27, 2025
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  • July 20, 2025
  • Lama Rod Owens

Consuming the World: A Meditation Practice Journey

  • Discover how Buddhist Lojong teachings can help you navigate chaos, fear, and grief with wisdom and compassion. Join Lama Rod in this three-part series to apply mind training to daily life’s challenges.
  • Online
  • May 6, 2025
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  • May 27, 2025
  • Georgia Kashnig

Women in the Buddha’s Life: Reading Together, Part II

  • Explore the stories of women in the Buddha’s life—mothers, wife, disciples—through contemplative reading. Deepen connection, practice, and reflection in this extension of the "Women in the Buddha's Life" project.
  • Online
  • May 17, 2025
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  • May 18, 2025
  • John Makransky, Rachel Cronin

Accessing the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of Our Buddha Nature

  • Explore the depths of unconditional love and wisdom through Tibetan Buddhist-inspired practices, guided meditations, and modern psychology in this weekend retreat, open to all with contemplative experience.
  • Online
  • May 31, 2025
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  • June 1, 2025
  • Yahel Avigur

Introduction to a Soulmaking Dharma

  • Explore Soulmaking Dharma: a contemporary Buddhist path rooted in emptiness, ethics, and meditation. Discover Desire, Imagination, Sacredness, and Emptiness through practice, teachings, and reflection.
  • Online
  • June 3, 2025
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  • July 8, 2025
  • Oren Jay Sofer

Wise Speech: An Introduction to Nonviolent Communication

  • Learn to speak with clarity, compassion, and confidence. This 6-week online course blends Buddhist wisdom with Nonviolent Communication—and is offered free of charge to support all who wish to join.
  • Online
  • July 9, 2025
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  • July 30, 2025
  • Bhikkhu Sujato

And Then the Buddha Said: A Dialectical Approach to Early Buddhism

  • Explore how the Buddha taught through four weeks of lively sutta study. Each session brings ancient dialogues to life, revealing timely wisdom for the challenges of today. Freely offered!
  • Online
  • August 1, 2025
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  • August 3, 2025
  • devon hase, Rachel Hammerman

Heart to Heart Retreat: Cultivating the Brahma Viharas in Relationship

  • Cultivate a boundless heart with devon hase and Rachel Hammerman. Explore loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity through Brahma Vihara practices, meditation, and relational inquiry.
  • Online
  • August 8, 2025
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  • August 13, 2025
  • Tuere Sala, Yahel Avigur

Emptiness: Seeing That Frees – A Hybrid Retreat

  • Join us in this hybrid program as we delve deeper into Rob Burbea's Seeing That Frees, exploring dependent origination and emptiness, with a focus on the balance of wisdom and mettā. Open to year-long BCBS Seeing That Frees participants.
  • Online
  • August 24, 2025
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  • September 28, 2025
  • Marcin Fabjański

Finding Awakening in Nature

  • Discover how Buddhism, Stoicism, and nature can transform your attention, ease stress, and deepen connection. Explore meditative practices, philosophy, and human flourishing for a more fulfilling life.
  • Online
  • September 3, 2025
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  • July 21, 2026
  • Tuere Sala, Alex Haley

Nine Bodies: A Yearlong Program Exploring Samadhi and the Natural Capacities of Consciousness

  • Deepen your practice in this yearlong program exploring Satipaṭṭhāna, the Nine Bodies, and Naturally Arising Samadhi. Cultivate clarity, confidence, and inner stability. Guest Teacher: Phillip Moffitt.
  • Online
  • October 4, 2025
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  • November 22, 2025
  • Bhikkhu Anālayo, Rhonda Magee, Rebecca Henderson, Jon Kabat-Zinn

Global Awareness Local Action (GALA)

  • Global Awareness Local Action (GALA) is a BCBS initiative to inspire climate change activism grounded in Buddhist teachings and mindfulness.Grounded in the idea that Buddhist ethics calls on us to act to mitigate and adapt to climate change, the GALA program, freely offered on a dāna basis, will share practices, conceptual frameworks, and workshops to support participants in mindful and skillful engagement in a world with a rapidly changing climate.
  • Online
  • October 9, 2025
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  • November 6, 2025
  • Michael Grady

Wise Effort in Working With Fear and Anxiety: A Practical Guide

  • Explore skillful ways to meet fear and anxiety with calming and insight practices. Through meditation, discussion, and compassionate inquiry, discover freedom beyond limiting habits of mind.
  • Online
  • October 21, 2025
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  • November 4, 2025
  • Ying Chen, Diana Clark, Kim Allen, David Lorey

Entering the World of the Pali Canon

  • Explore the Pali Canon’s suttas, history, and practice in this engaging program. Learn to navigate texts, discuss key passages, and integrate study into your path through meditation and group reflection.
  • Online
  • October 24, 2025
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  • December 18, 2025
  • Shaila Catherine

Timeless Wisdom: Exploring Buddhist Teachings through Similes and Stories

  • Explore the Buddha’s teachings through vivid similes—mountains, mirages, gold, and more—in this engaging program that brings ancient wisdom to life through study, reflection, and meditation.
  • Online
  • October 25, 2025
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  • October 26, 2025
  • Heather Sundberg

Deepening into Emptiness and Suchness from the Southern Thai Forest Tradition

  • Explore the deep wisdom of Emptiness and Suchness in this online retreat. Through teachings, guided meditations, and inquiry, uncover joy, connection, and freedom beyond habitual reactivity.
  • Online
  • November 7, 2025
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  • November 9, 2025
  • Leigh Brasington

What Do the Suttas Actually Say about the Brahma Viharas?

  • Explore the Buddha’s teachings on Love, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity. Through sutta study and cross-tradition insights, deepen your understanding and practice of these four sublime abodes.
  • Online
  • November 15, 2025
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  • November 16, 2025
  • John Makransky

Being Harmonized with the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of Our Buddha Nature

  • Discover your innate buddha nature in this retreat, exploring three Tibetan Buddhist practices that open the heart and mind to love, wisdom, and compassion. Includes guided meditations, Q&A, and discussion.
  • Online

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