Programs

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  • April 4, 2025
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  • April 6, 2025
  • Brad Hunter

Transforming Death Anxiety into an Embrace of Mystery and Wonder

  • Explore how Buddhist insight and practice can ease death anxiety by seeing through the illusion of self, embracing impermanence, and transforming fear into trust, mystery, and wonder in this online weekend retreat.
  • Online
  • April 6, 2025
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  • April 27, 2025
  • Jill Shepherd

Equanimity: Finding Some Ease in the Midst of it All

  • Explore equanimity on the Buddha’s path to freedom. Join this four-week program to cultivate steadiness, resilience, balance and peace in meditation and amidst the challenges of everyday life.
  • Online
  • April 9, 2025
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  • April 9, 2025
  • Pierce Salguero, William Edelglass

Six Kinds of Nonduality: A Conversation with Pierce Salguero

  • Join Pierce Salguero and BCBS Director William Edelglass as they explore six varieties of nonduality in Buddhist teachings, Asian traditions, and Western spirituality, highlighting practices, experiences, and worldviews.
  • Online
  • April 26, 2025
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  • May 31, 2025
  • Nolitha Tsengiwe, Anna-Brown Griswold

Developing a Vast Heart in Turbulent Times: Exploring the Four Brahmaviharas through Insight Dialogue

  • Explore the Four Brahmaviharas—loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity—through Insight Dialogue in this 6-week journey. Deepen wisdom, attune to obstacles, and cultivate an open heart in community.
  • Online
  • 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
  • April 28, 2025
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  • June 2, 2025
  • Brent Beresford, Alex Castanheira

Beyond the Mask: An Insight Dialogue-based Deconstruction of Dominant Masculinity

  • Explore masculinity through Insight Dialogue and Dhamma teachings, deconstructing harmful conditioning and embracing caring, open masculinities. Open to all on the male spectrum.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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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