Upcoming Online Programs
The Daily Sit
Monday-Friday, 10:30-11:15 am EST
Dana offering - no pre-registration required
Bill & Susan will be on a year-long retreat in 2022 but the DAILY SIT will continue with the following facilitators:
Dawn Scott, David Kohn, Jaye Moyer, Lori Rugle, Lee Steppacher, Maria Cimino, Catherine Glenn
Friday--Silent Sit
No Weekend sittings.
Putting Out the Fires:
Increasing Resiliency, Decreasing Reactivity
December 3 - 4, 2022
Heather Sundberg offers Five Somatic Practices, the Buddha’s teaching of the Fire Sermon, guided meditations and discussion about how to live these teachings in our daily lives. Optional Qi Gong practice is offered as well.
Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Zen Wisdom and Poetry in a Time of Ecological Crisis
Sunday - December 4, 2022
7:30 - 9:00 PM ET
Dāna Event - Freely Offered
Join David Hinton and William Edelglass for a discussion on how wisdom, poetry, and practice of Chinese Buddhism invite us to recognize the kinship of mind and nature, based on Hinton's new book, "Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction."
Sense Experience, Insight, and Equanimity
December 10 - 11, 2022
Dāna Program - Freely Offered
Ayya Dhammadīpā investigates what it is like to experience the mind as a sense organ. And how does that experience shift our relationship to the other five sense organs? This retreat focuses on the six sense organs as doorways to insight and sense experiences as opportunities to practice in ways that lead to equanimity.
Setting Conscious Intentions for Our Lives and World for 2023
December 17 - 18, 2022
In this year-end online retreat with Deborah Eden Tull, you will be invited to listen deeply, reflect, restore, and create anew. Grounded in Buddhist traditions, this retreat includes meditation and mindful inquiry, dharma talks, relational mindfulness, reflective writing, and somatic practices.
New Year's Eve Sangha Gathering
Saturday, December 31, 2022
9:00 PM to 12:00 AM ET
Dāna Event - Freely Offered
Bill and Susan Morgan will be emerging from their year-long retreat to bring in the new year with all of you. Let’s bring our dharma aspirations forward together! They will offer reflections and encouragement along with guided meditations as we close out another challenging year.
Writing the Buddhist Essay
Jan 10 - Feb 14, 2023
Tuesdays, 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET
Jess Row leads this six-week program on writing a Buddhist Essay. This program includes a reflection on a selection of classic and contemporary essays while working on short playful exercises to generate ideas for writing your own essay.
Uncovering the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of our Buddha Nature
Jan 18 - Mar 1, 2023
Wednesdays 7:30-9:00 pm ET
John Makransky and Paul Condon invite you to join them and explore ways of accessing and settling into our innate awakened awareness through practices adapted from Tibetan Buddhism (Nyingma Dzogchen) with assistance from modern psychology.
What is a Dharma Teacher For?
Exploring the Teacher-Student Relationship
February 5 - 26, 2023
Sundays, 7:00-8:30 PM ET
Nico & Devon Hase will examine the similarities and differences of teacher-student relationships in the Mahasi tradition, Soto Zen, and Kagyu Vajrayana as a context for exploring our own thoughts, emotions, and experiences as students walking the Buddhist path.
Alive Until You’re Dead:
Being Present to Aging and Mortality
February 7 - 28, 2023
Tuesdays, 5:00-6:30 PM ET
Join Susan Moon and explore the openings that are possible when we consent to our aging and accept our mortality. In a supportive and nonjudgmental setting, learn how awareness of our death can freshen things up and make us feel more alive than ever. This course uses readings from Susan Moon's latest book, Alive Until You're Dead.
MahaSati:
An Introduction to Awareness of Emptiness Practices
February 10 - 12, 2023
Heather Sundberg offers an introduction to a map of teachings and practices, grounded in the Southern Thai forest tradition, as well as tools to begin engaging in the process of developing a more awakened state of being. This program is for experienced practitioners.
Uncovering the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of our Buddha Nature Retreat
March 24 - 27, 2023
John Makransky and Paul Condon invite you to join them and explore ways of accessing and settling into our innate awakened awareness through practices adapted from Tibetan Buddhism (Nyingma Dzogchen) with assistance from modern psychology.
This retreat is open to those who took the prior 7 week course with us at BCBS (Jan-Mar 2023), and to those who have previously done a retreat or workshop with John Makransky or Paul Condon, on-line or in person
The Four Noble Truths of Recovery
April 5 - 29, 2023
Kevin Griffin investigates correlations between the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, and the 12 Steps. Over four online evening sessions, we will explore connections between the Buddha's teachings and the path of recovery from addiction. This program culminates in a day-long online retreat.
That Is Not Your Mind!
Surangama Sutra Study with Meditation and Qigong
April 21 - 23, 2023
Join Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum to practice sense-focused meditations drawn from the Surangama Sutra, along with movements from Dayan (Wild Goose) Qigong, exploring the teachings in movement and stillness.
The Way to the Far Shore: A Sutta Contemplation Retreat
June 2 - 4, 2023
Leigh Brasington offers an in-depth look at the 16 suttas found in Sutta Nipata Book V, as well as topics such as old age and death, dukkha, craving, sensuality, quenching, nothingness, and awakening.
Skillful Living in a World on Fire: Grounded in the Noble Eightfold Path
June 23 - 29, 2023
Dāna Retreat - Freely Offered
Ayya Santacitta and Ayya Santussika will frame our days with traditional chanting and meditation in this freely offered, dana-based retreat. Sessions throughout the day will include investigation of suttas from the Pali Canon, guided meditations, Q&A, small group discussions and reflections offered by the Ayyas.
Breaking Bias with the Brahmaviharas
Sept 15 - Oct 13, 2023
Fridays, 12:00-1:30 PM ET
Join Anurag Gupta and practice the brahmaviharas, a cornerstone of the Buddhist path of freedom.
The brahmaviharas provide each one of us the medicine to heal from the defilements and open our heart-mind, despite the conditioning of our outer environment, to become members of a “beloved community.”
Luminous Darkness: A Radical Path of Wholeness
Sept 23 - Nov 4, 2023
Saturdays, 12:00-1:30 PM ET
It is in our original nature to celebrate the spectrum and interplay of dark and light, night and day, receptive and expressive, yin and yang, emptiness and fullness. Join Deborah Eden Tull for this embodied exploration of Luminous Darkness, based on Deborah Eden Tull’s new book, Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown.
Previously Offered Programs
Satipaṭṭhāna Meditation
Spring 2023
An online study and practice course
guided by Bhikkhu Anālayo
April 8 - June 10, 2023
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 will open for the Spring iteration
January 16 - February 28
This program will be offered every Spring and Fall
Mindfulness of Breathing
Winter 2023
An online study and practice course
guided by Bhikkhu Anālayo
Jan 21 - March 18, 2023
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 for the Winter iteration are now closed
This program will be offered every Winter and Summer
Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma:
Re-evaluating Emptiness, Imagination, Sacredness and Desire
An online study and practice course
guided by Catherine McGee
assisted by Yahel Avigur
September 4- December 4, 2022
Rooted in the Buddha's teaching of emptiness, ethics and meditative training, Soulmaking Dharma is a rich and resonant contemporary flowering of the Dharma. Soulmaking Dharma teachings rest upon practices of samatha, metta, emptiness, and the emotional/energy body.
Applications Now Closed
Next iteration Fall 2023
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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