Programs

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  • February 7, 2025
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  • February 9, 2025
  • Heather Sundberg

MahaSati: Emptiness Awareness Practices from the Southern Thai Forest Tradition

  • This program for experienced practitioners offers teachings and practices from the Southern Thai forest tradition, focusing on MahaSati, or pure awareness, to help develop a more awakened state of being.
  • Online
  • February 9, 2025
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  • February 9, 2025
  • Wendy Garling, Charles Hallisey, Georgia Kashnig, Janet Surrey, William Edelglass

Women in the Buddha’s Life: Voices of Women in the Buddhist Heritage

  • Join us in celebrating the launch of "Women in the Buddha’s Life." This conversation with the team who translated the stories and crafted the resources, will be moderated by BCBS Director of Studies, William Edelglass
  • Online
  • February 13, 2025
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  • April 10, 2025
  • Judy Bernstein, Susie Clarion, Holly Nelson-Johnson, Michele Zukerberg

Awakening White Awareness: An Insight Dialogue and Race Equity Program

  • Join a nine-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
  • March 3, 2025
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  • March 24, 2025
  • Georgia Kashnig

Women in the Buddha’s Life: Reading Together

  • 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
  • March 21, 2025
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  • March 26, 2025
  • Ayya Santussika

Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

  • Practice the instructions of ānāpānasati to explore how it can lead into the limitless states of the brahmavihāras.
  • Residential
  • March 21, 2025
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  • March 28, 2025
  • Éowyn Ahlstrom, Bob Stahl

Insight Inside Us: How the Dharma Inspires Mindfulness-Based Approaches

  • Explore the roots of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in this insight meditation retreat. Engage in silent practice, mindful yoga, and teachings on mindfulness, lovingkindness, and core Dharma wisdom.
  • Online
  • March 22, 2025
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  • March 22, 2025
  • Cara Lai, Zac Ispa-Landa

The Dharma of Parenting: Nurturing Life, Love, and Liberation

  • Online daylong event intended to reframe the way we think about life as a parent and practitioner.
  • Online
  • March 27, 2025
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  • March 30, 2025
  • Mark Unno, Judith Simmer-Brown, Ruben Habito

Love and Compassion in Pure Land Buddhism: Human Nature and Buddha Nature

  • This is a rare opportunity to learn and practice with three senior teachers with a deep knowledge of Pure Land compassion practices.
  • Residential
  • April 6, 2025
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  • April 27, 2025
  • Jill Shepherd

Equanimity: Finding Some Ease in the Midst of it All

  • Explore equanimity on the Buddha’s path to freedom. Join this four-week program to cultivate steadiness, resilience, balance and peace in meditation and amidst the challenges of everyday life.
  • Online
  • April 9, 2025
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  • April 9, 2025
  • Pierce Salguero

Six Kinds of Nonduality: A Conversation with Pierce Salguero

  • Join Pierce Salguero and BCBS Director William Edelglass as they explore six varieties of nonduality in Buddhist teachings, Asian traditions, and Western spirituality, highlighting practices, experiences, and worldviews.
  • Online
  • April 21, 2025
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  • May 1, 2025
  • Leigh Brasington, Heather Sundberg

Jhānas and Emptiness

  • Train in the meditative absorption states and explore how they support deepening insights into emptiness.
  • Residential
  • April 28, 2025
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  • June 2, 2025
  • Brent Beresford, Alex Castanheira

Beyond the Mask: An Insight Dialogue-based Deconstruction of Dominant Masculinity Supported by Relational Awareness

  • Explore masculinity through Insight Dialogue and Dhamma teachings, deconstructing harmful conditioning and embracing caring, open masculinities. Open to all on the male spectrum.
  • Online
  • May 2, 2025
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  • May 6, 2025
  • Melanie Harris, Joshuah Brian Campbell

Black Spirituals & Protest Songs: Singing for Liberation – A BIPOC Retreat

  • Explore liberation through the history of movement songs, Buddhist meditation, active listening, and the sacred tradition of African American Spirituals.
  • Residential
  • May 9, 2025
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  • May 13, 2025
  • Kaira Jewel Lingo

Living Ecodharma: Finding Fulfillment in Healing and Loving the Earth

  • Join fellow contemplatives in a sacred gathering to embody Earth care, grieve, rest, and celebrate joy. Through meditation, movement, storytelling, and nature, we will nurture wisdom and deepen community bonds.
  • Residential
  • May 17, 2025
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  • May 18, 2025
  • John Makransky, Rachel Cronin

Accessing the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of Our Buddha Nature

  • Explore the depths of unconditional love and wisdom through Tibetan Buddhist-inspired practices, guided meditations, and modern psychology in this weekend retreat, open to all with contemplative experience.
  • Online
  • May 21, 2025
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  • May 25, 2025
  • Larry Ward, Peggy Rowe-Ward

Widening the Heart: The Practice of Interbeing

  • Engage with nature, practice with family, spiritual, and land ancestors, and explore our shared humanity through practices that help build a truly beloved community.
  • Residential
  • May 26, 2025
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  • June 1, 2025
  • Vimalasara, Maitriveer Nagarjuna, Upayadhi

Ambedkar’s Dharma of Liberation, Equality, Love, and Justice

  • Reflect on Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s legacy and what we might integrate from his teachings and example for our times.
  • Residential
  • May 31, 2025
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  • June 1, 2025
  • Yahel Avigur

Introduction to a Soulmaking Dharma

  • Explore Soulmaking Dharma: a contemporary Buddhist path rooted in emptiness, ethics, and meditation. Discover Desire, Imagination, Sacredness, and Emptiness through practice, teachings, and reflection.
  • Online
  • June 3, 2025
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  • June 8, 2025
  • John Makransky

Harmonizing with the Unconditional Love and Wisdom of Our Buddha Nature

  • This program blends Tibetan Buddhist practices with modern psychology to cultivate unconditional love and wisdom. Through receptive, deepening, and inclusive modes, will harmonize with our buddha nature for greater compassion and wisdom.
  • Residential
  • June 17, 2025
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  • June 23, 2025
  • Ayya Anandabodhi

Chanting, Joy, and the Seven Factors of Awakening

  • This monastic-led program explores the power of chanting to cultivate the Seven Factors of Awakening. By engaging body, heart, and mind, we transform limiting habits, fostering joy, mindfulness, and deeper spiritual growth.
  • Residential
  • June 25, 2025
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  • June 29, 2025
  • Pamela Weiss, Kate Johnson

Unearthing Buddhist Women’s Wisdom: A Retreat for Mothers and Daughters

  • Anyone who identifies as a mother or daughter is invited to join, with or without their family. Together, we will celebrate women’s wisdom, tenacity, tenderness, and joy.
  • Residential
  • 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 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
  • 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

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