Upcoming Online Programs
The Daily Sit
Monday-Friday, 10:30-11:15 am EST
Dana offering - no pre-registration required
Bill & Susan Morgan will be returning to the Daily Sit on Monday, Jan 2nd! They will be assisted by Dawn Scott, David Kohn, Jaye Moyer, Lori Rugle, Lee Steppacher, and Catherine Glenn in 2023.
No Weekend sittings.
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 open for the Spring iteration
January 16 - February 27
This program will be offered every Spring and Fall
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 6 - 27, 2023
Mondays, 5:00-6:30 PM ET
or
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
Grounded in the Southern Thai forest tradition, Heather Sundberg offers an introduction to a map of teachings, practices, and tools to develop a more awakened state of being. This program is for experienced practitioners.
Women in the Buddha’s Life: Lay Women as Teachers
Sunday, March 19, 2023
3:00 - 5:00 PM ET
Dāna Event - Freely Offered
This event is part of an ongoing collective project focusing on presentations in Buddhist literature about “The Women in the Buddha’s Life” with Wendy Garling, Charles Hallisey, Georgia Kashnig, and Janet Surrey. There is another freely offered reading and discussion offered on April 2. Please join one or both of them.
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
Spiritual Storytelling for Creating Community
Sunday, March 26, 2023
12:00 - 2:00 PM ET
This workshop, with Sumi Loundon Kim, centers on spiritual storytelling to foster intimacy, authenticity, empathy and caring. Participants will write and share personal narratives in small groups, then reflect on what was learned with the whole group.
Women in the Buddha’s Life: Ordained Women as Teachers
Sunday, April 2, 2023
3:00 - 5:00 PM ET
Dāna Event - Freely Offered
This event is part of an ongoing collective project focusing on presentations in Buddhist literature about “The Women in the Buddha’s Life” with Wendy Garling, Charles Hallisey, Georgia Kashnig, and Janet Surrey. There is another freely offered reading and discussion offered on March 19. Please join one or both of them.
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 Map of Wisdom: Joseph Goldstein on the Core Buddhist Teachings
Sunday, April 23, 2023
Dāna Event - Freely Offered
This freely offered, dana-based online conversation between BCBS co-founder Joseph Goldstein and BCBS Director of Studies William Edelglass will be based on two talks Joseph gave last summer that explore the essential insights of the Buddha in the early discourses and how they relate to each other.
Secular and Religious in Buddhism and Psychotherapy: A Half-Day Program
April 29, 2023
1:00 PM - 5:45 PM ET
Dāna Event - Freely Offered
Rev. Dr. Mark Unno, an ordained Shin Buddhist priest and Dr. Polly Young-Eisendrath, psychotherapist, present the philosophical and psychological implications of the religious and secular in terms of the practice of Buddhism and psychotherapy.
What is Buddhist Medicine?
Sunday May 21, 2023
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET
Dāna Event - Freely Offered
In this freely offered event, Dr. Pierce Salguero explores the multifaceted tradition of “Buddhist medicine.” It introduces a range of Buddhist ideas, practices, and other cultural and social formations that Buddhists across the world have utilized in seeking health and preventing disease.
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.
The Past Is Not Gone: The Practice of Timelessness (Akalika)
Oct 30 - Nov 13, 2023
Mondays, 7:00 - 9:00 PM ET
We often live with an old-fashioned time model and believe the past is gone, and things we have done in the past seem irreparable. In this online series with Cuong Lu, we will be working with our experience of the past by engaging with the Buddhist teachings of acceptance, compassion, and wisdom.
Previously Offered Programs
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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