Programs

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  • 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 online insight meditation retreat. Engage in silent practice, mindful yoga, and teachings on mindfulness, lovingkindness, and core Dharma wisdom.
  • Online
  • March 23, 2025
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  • March 23, 2025
  • Ralph Craig, William Edelglass

Thus Have I Heard: American Buddhism Through the Lens of Tina Turner

  • Join us for a conversation with Ralph H. Craig III and BCBS Director of Studies William Edelglass as they explore Tina Turner's spiritual journey, blending Buddhism, race, culture, and religious influences.
  • 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 4, 2025
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  • April 6, 2025
  • Brad Hunter

Transforming Death Anxiety into an Embrace of Mystery and Wonder

  • Explore how Buddhist insight and practice can ease death anxiety by seeing through the illusion of self, embracing impermanence, and transforming fear into trust, mystery, and wonder in this online weekend retreat.
  • Online
  • 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, William Edelglass

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, Rachael O’Brien, Heather Sundberg

Jhānas and Emptiness

  • Train in the meditative absorption states and explore how they support deepening insights into emptiness.
  • Residential
  • April 27, 2025
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  • July 20, 2025
  • Lama Rod Owens

Consuming the World: A Meditation Practice Journey

  • Discover how Buddhist Lojong teachings can help you navigate chaos, fear, and grief with wisdom and compassion. Join Lama Rod in this three-part series to apply mind training to daily life’s challenges.
  • Online
  • 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

  • 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 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 13, 2025
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  • June 15, 2025
  • Judson Brewer, Robin Boudette

Cultivating Curiosity for Habit Change: Mindful Inquiry Training for Transformation

  • Join Drs. Jud Brewer and Robin Boudette for a weekend-long program that trains facilitators in the 3 Gears Method of behavior change to help individuals transform unhealthy habits like stress eating, smoking, or worrying.
  • 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
  • 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
  • July 24, 2025
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  • July 29, 2025
  • Chenxing Han, Kaishin Victory Matsui, Ryan Wong

Roots and Refuge: An Asian American Buddhist Writing Retreat

  • How do our roots shape us as Asian Americans in connection to Buddhism? Where can we find refuge in the practice of putting pen to paper? As writers shaped by...
  • 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
  • August 1, 2025
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  • August 6, 2025
  • Tuere Sala, Peace Twesigye

Awakening Together: An Insight Dialogue Retreat For People of Color

  • Cultivate embodied presence, inner strength, and the strength of interdependence in order to stand with equanimity in a tumultuous world.
  • Residential
  • August 8, 2025
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  • August 13, 2025
  • Tuere Sala, Yahel Avigur

Emptiness: Seeing That Frees – A Hybrid Retreat

  • Join us in this hybrid program as we delve deeper into Rob Burbea's Seeing That Frees, exploring dependent origination and emptiness, with a focus on the balance of wisdom and mettā. Open to year-long BCBS Seeing That Frees participants.
  • Residential

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