Programs

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  • July 8, 2025
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  • July 13, 2025
  • Dawn Scott, Rupert Marques

Courageous Heart: Meeting the Spirit of our Times with Steadiness and Love

  • Develop the capacity to heartfully respond to beauty and difficulties, consciously calling forth the deep biological imperative for freedom.
  • Residential
  • 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
  • July 18, 2025
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  • July 21, 2025
  • Trent Walker, Chenxing Han

Cambodian Dharma Songs: A Khmer Affinity Retreat

  • Connect with your Cambodian heritage through chant and song! Join this 4-day program of chanting, meditation, and community, exploring expressive Dharma songs in Khmer, Pali, and English—no experience needed!
  • Residential
  • July 22, 2025
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  • August 7, 2025
  • William Edelglass

Exploring Emptiness Across Buddhist Traditions

  • What is emptiness—and how can it liberate us? This course explores diverse Buddhist teachings and practices of emptiness across traditions, from early texts to Nāgārjuna, Yogācāra, art, ethics, and more.
  • Online
  • July 24, 2025
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  • July 29, 2025
  • Chenxing Han, Kaishin Victory Matsui, Ryan Wong

Roots and Refuge: An Asian American Buddhist Writing Retreat

  • How do our roots shape us as Asian Americans in connection to Buddhism? Where can we find refuge in the practice of putting pen to paper? As writers shaped by...
  • Residential
  • 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 1, 2025
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  • August 6, 2025
  • Tuere Sala, Peace Twesigye

Awakening Together: An Insight Dialogue Retreat For People of Color

  • Cultivate embodied presence, inner strength, and the strength of interdependence in order to stand with equanimity in a tumultuous world.
  • Residential
  • 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 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.
  • Residential
  • August 10, 2025
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  • August 16, 2025
  • Bill Morgan, Susan Morgan

Feeding the Heart: The Brahmavihāras in Action — Online Householder Retreat

  • Build a temple of love amid chaos. This weeklong online retreat invites you to awaken the heart through the brahmaviharas—friendliness, compassion, joy, and equanimity—right in daily life.
  • Online
  • August 15, 2025
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  • August 24, 2025
  • Tuere Sala

Nine Bodies Insight Retreat: Exploring Natural Capacities of Consciousness (Hybrid)

  • Experience a new style of Insight Meditation that employs the “Nine Bodies of Consciousness” map.
  • Hybrid
  • August 19, 2025
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  • September 23, 2025
  • nico hase

Practicing Dependent Origination: The Heart of the Buddha’s Awakening

  • Explore dependent origination as a living practice—the insight at the heart of the Buddha’s awakening. This six-week course blends meditation, dharma, and reflection to nurture real-life transformation.
  • 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
  • September 5, 2025
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  • September 7, 2025
  • Jacoby Ballard

Giving Up All Hope of a Better Past: Forgiveness Practices

  • Been hurt—or hurt someone—this year? (That’s all of us.) This weekend program offers space to heal through the four directions of forgiveness: self, others, harm done, and the suffering of the world.
  • Online
  • September 8, 2025
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  • September 29, 2025
  • Georgia Kashnig

Women in the Buddha’s Life: Reading Together, Part 2

  • 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
  • September 19, 2025
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  • September 24, 2025
  • David Chernikoff

Intimacy With All Things: Body, Heart, Mind, World

  • Dōgen taught that “enlightenment is intimacy with all things.” Explore what this means and how we can apply this teaching in our lives.
  • Residential
  • September 28, 2025
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  • December 7, 2025
  • Catherine McGee, Yahel Avigur

Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma

  • This online intensive is a contemplative and thoughtful look into the Soulmaking Dharma teachings. For more information, please visit the program page.Rooted in the Buddha's teaching of emptiness, ethics and meditative...
  • 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 10, 2025
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  • October 15, 2025
  • nico hase, devon hase

Dwelling in Goodness and Safety: A Brahma Vihara Retreat for Young Adults

  • Discover safety, rest, and resilience through the brahmavihāras—love, compassion, joy, and equanimity. This young adult program offers guided meditation, relational inquiry, and silent practice to deepen the heart.
  • Residential
  • 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

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