Programs

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  • September 9, 2025
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  • September 9, 2025
  • Stephanie Kaza, William Edelglass

A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy’s Contributions to Contemporary Buddhism

  • Honor Joanna Macy’s legacy in this dialogue exploring her life, teachings, and ecodharma vision—with Stephanie Kaza and William Edelglass. Offered freely with donations supporting young adult programs.
  • 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
  • October 26, 2025
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  • December 14, 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
  • 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 7, 2025
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  • November 12, 2025
  • Éowyn Ahlstrom, Bob Stahl

Mindfulness as the Gateway to Many Beautiful Qualities – An “at home” Retreat

  • Explore how sustained mindfulness opens the door to compassion, joy, equanimity, and insight in this nourishing at-home retreat with silent practice, guided movement, and dharma reflections.
  • 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
  • December 28, 2025
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  • January 1, 2026
  • Nicola Redfern, Ayya Anopama

Voices of Awakening: An Insight Dialogue Retreat

  • Hear the voices of the first Buddhist nuns. Through poetry, meditation, and Insight Dialogue, awaken compassion, resilience, and joy for your own journey.
  • Online
  • December 31, 2025
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  • January 1, 2026
  • Susan Morgan, Bill Morgan

New Year’s Eve Sangha Gathering

  • Please join us for the fourth annual New Year's Eve sit! Let’s bring our dharma aspirations forward together!
  • Online
  • January 21, 2026
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  • February 11, 2026
  • Dawn Haney, Nina Herzog

Fat Dharma: An Anti-Resolution Revolution to Liberate Our Hearts and Bodies

  • Explore Buddhist teachings through the lens of fat liberation in a supportive community that celebrates embodiment, disrupts diet culture, and reclaims the Dharma for every body—just as it is.
  • Online
  • January 22, 2026
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  • February 26, 2026
  • Judson Brewer, Robin Boudette

Transcendent Dependent Arising: The Path from Suffering to Freedom

  • Explore the transformative teachings of transcendent dependent arising in this six-week program, blending ancient wisdom and modern neuroscience to uncover the path from suffering to liberation through study and practice.
  • Online
  • January 31, 2026
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  • March 26, 2026
  • Anita Bermont, Holly Nelson-Johnson, Judy Bernstein, Patricia Fontaine, Sue Brown

Awakening White Awareness: An Insight Dialogue and Race Equity Program

  • Join an eight-week series for white-bodied individuals exploring Insight Dialogue and anti-racism. We’ll cultivate awareness, confront cultural conditioning, and foster collective transformation toward racial justice.
  • Online
  • February 25, 2026
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  • March 18, 2026
  • Megan Mook

Compassion as the Foundation of Vajrayana: An Introduction to Tantra

  • Within Tibetan Buddhism, Tantra, or Vajrayana, is considered the culmination of a gradual training in Buddhist thought and practice. A rich and complex tradition, Vajrayana works with the subtle energies...
  • Online
  • March 14, 2026
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  • March 15, 2026
  • John Makransky, Rachel Cronin

Becoming Transparent to the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of Our Buddha Nature

  • Explore practices from Tibetan Buddhism to access your innate Buddha nature—awakening unconditional love, warmth, and wisdom beneath habitual thought. Open to all with contemplative experience.
  • Online

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