Upcoming Online Programs
The Daily Sit
with
Bill and Susan Morgan
Monday-Friday, 10:30-11:15 am EDT
Saturday & Sunday, 10:30-11:00 am EDT
Dana Offering
Occasional Guest Teachers
Emptiness and Form:
Fiction and the Dharma
A donation (Dāna) event
December 12, 2021
7:30 – 9:00 pm EST
Join Ruth Ozeki, Zen Buddhist priest and novelist, and Francisca Cho, professor and one of the most prominent contemporary scholars on Buddhism and literature, as together, they explore emptiness and form, and the many ways that reading and writing literature can teach the dharma.
Visceral Enlightenment:
Somatic Practice as a Dharma Path
A donation (Dāna) event
December 18, 2021
Saturday, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm ET
Join Willa Baker and Martin Aylward as together they explore the importance of the body for the practice of the dharma. Drawing on their recent books—The Wakeful Body and Awake Where You Are—Willa and Martin will engage in a dialogue on the role of the body as a guide for awakening.
We are happy to be collaborating on this event with Wonderwell Mountain Refuge and the Natural Dharma Fellowship.
Voices of Awakening:
An Insight Dialogue Retreat
Dec 29, 2021 - Jan 02, 2022
Please join this New Year’s retreat with Ayya Anopama and Nicola Redfern, as they explore the path to freedom and the obstacles that hinder us by contemplating the Verses of the Elder Nuns (Therīgāthā). This retreat will include silent meditation as well as Insight Dialogue in pairs and small groups, bringing together meditative awareness, wisdom teachings, poetry and the power of relational practice to develop liberating insight and compassion.
Exploring Emptiness,
Grounding in the Brahmavihāras
January 2 - 8, 2022
Mary Aubry explores how to navigate the world through the Middle Way teachings on Emptiness. Gather together daily on zoom for silent sitting practice, Dharma talks, with ample time for discussion, as well as guided embodied Brahmavihāra practice.
Belonging to the Earth:
Wise Action Toward a
Life-Sustaining Society
January 3 - Feb 7, 2022
Mondays, 7:30 – 9:00 pm EST
In this program, Jessica Morey brings the Brahmaviharas of loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity as resources for honoring our pain for our world, while still cultivating gratitude, connection, and love to sustain us in taking action toward a life-sustaining society.
Exploring Nibbana:
A Conversation with Joseph Goldstein
January 9, 2022
Sunday, 7:30 – 9:00 pm EST
A Donation (Dāna) Event
Please join us for this conversation with Joseph Goldstein, co-founder of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (BCBS), and William Edelglass, BCBS Director of Studies. Joseph and William will explore different approaches to Nibbana as discussed in Joseph’s recent article published in the Insight Journal, and how even as we work to alleviate the societal causes of suffering, we can also strive to realize the ultimate refuge and help others find this peace.
Cultivating the Jhāna Factors
Feb 6 - Mar 24, 2022
Six Optional Live Conference Calls:
Sundays, 1:00 – 3:00 pm EST, February 13 - March 20
In this course Shaila Catherine will focus on cultivation of the five jhāna factors — directed attention, sustained attention, joy, happiness, and one-pointed attention. These factors develop in the natural course of concentration. Focused and Fearless: A Meditator’s Guide to States of Deep Joy, Calm and Clarity, by Shaila Catherine and published by Wisdom Publications (2008), is required for this course.
This course is offered in collaboration with Bodhi Courses.
Untangling the Tangle:
Exploring Diverse Views on
Race and Anti-Racism
Feb 17 - Mar 24, 2022
Thursdays, 7:30 – 9:00 pm EST
Join Brian Lesage and Jessica Locke for this reading and discussion group for people who identify as white, to develop our capacities to clearly understand and compassionately respond to the many – often conflicting and challenging – views on race and anti-racism that are now such a prominent part of North American public culture.
Introduction to Buddhist Meditation:
Mindfulness and Lovingkindness
March 10 - April 14, 2022
Thursdays, 7:30 – 9:00 pm EST
Mindfulness practice offers so many different techniques and approaches that it may be hard to get started. Join Rachel Lewis for a step-by-step through the things you need to develop or strengthen your meditation practice.
Integrating Emptiness in Sitting Meditation and Daily Life
May 6 - 8, 2022
Teachers Bhikkhu Anālayo and Guo Gu engage in a lively teaching experience on perspectives of emptiness as found in both early Buddhist texts and in the later Chan (Chinese Zen) tradition. There will also be teachings via guided meditations from both teachers and live question and answer periods on Saturday and Sunday. There are prerequisites for this course.
Previously Offered Programs
Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation
Fall 2021
An online study and practice course
guided by Bhikkhu Anālayo
October 10th - December 11th, 2021
Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation is an interactive and comprehensive online program modeled on in-person courses offered globally by Venerable Bhikkhu Anālayo on the foundational mindfulness text the Satipaṭṭhāna-sutta.
Applications Closed for Fall 2021
The next iteration will be Spring 2022
Mindfulness of Breathing
Winter 2022
An online study and practice course
guided by Bhikkhu Anālayo
January 21 - March 19, 2022
Mindfulness of Breathing is an eight-week, focused study on the sixteen steps of the Ānāpānasati-sutta. This program builds on the practice, particularly of the awakening factors, developed in the first course on Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation.
Applications Closed for Winter 2022
Next iteration will be Summer 2022
Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma
An online study and practice course guided by
Catherine McGee
Assisted by Yahel Avigur
Applications closed for Fall 2021
13 weeks of practice and focused study of Soulmaking Dharma
Dharma and Art:
A Whole-Life Path
An online course with
Gregory Kramer,
Sherre DeLys & Rosalyn Driscoll
Applications are now closed for 2021
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