Mar
14
Thu
2024
Dependent Origination Class
Mar 14 @ 7:00 pm – Apr 11 @ 8:30 pm

Dependent Origination and the Path to Freedom

Five Thursdays: April 4- May 2
7-8:30 PM

taught by Suzanne Colón

There’s an essential paradox at the heart of Buddhist practice: We must get exquisitely intimate with the moment-to-moment mind-body experience of the (small, relative) self in order to transcend it. The boat to ‘the far shore’ is built of our messy, frustrating stuff of life on this shore. The way beyond our reactivity, our back pain, our nagging inner commentary is to equanimously and compassionately embrace it. This is Alan Watts’ “backwards law” and the meaning of Dogen’s Genjo Koan.

This class will begin with the teachings on the Five Aggregates and build up to an understanding of the chain of Dependent Origination – the Buddha’s map for what’s going on in human experience, how we get caught and why we suffer. We will explore the practices that intimately “study the self” and how those lead to “forgetting the self.” The chain becomes a liberative cycle of expanding wisdom and freedom.

Each week there will be a suggested home practice to deepen our experiential knowledge of the concepts. The series is designed to be sequential but anyone is welcome to attend sporadically or singly as their schedule and interests allow.

This class, designed for meditators with some experience, will be offered in our weekly Thursday sangha meetings on a drop-in basis. We welcome anyone in the community who’d like to explore the nuances of these intricate teachings of the Buddha’s.


Class Schedule

April 4: The Five Aggregates and the Importance of Vedana (feeling tone)

April 11: Perception, Mis-perception, Mental Formations and the mind’s reactivity

April 18: Further links in the chain: how we get hooked and how we can unhook

April 25: The Chain of Dependent Origination and how it illustrates the Four Noble Truths

May 2: The Liberative chain spiraling toward wisdom, insight, compassion and freedom


Drop in to one, some or all six sessions of the series. No prior registration is necessary.

Zoom connection will be available as per usual on our Thursday evenings.

This course is offered on a dana basis, meaning it is our gift to you, freely offered. We gratefully accept support and gratitude to pay the bills and keep the sangha going. (For those that want it: the suggestion donation would be  $5-15 per session)

The exception is the evening of March 22 – all funds will go to Pamela Weiss, our guest teacher.

Mar
19
Tue
2024
Morning Zazen- ONLINE
Mar 19 @ 6:00 am – 6:30 am

Morning Zazen

ONLINE with Bozeman Zen Group

Weekdays, 6 – 6:30 AM

The Bozeman Zen Group is offering online, morning zazen (silent, sitting meditation) to all interested. You do not have to be a Zen practitioner to participate. Start your morning practicing intention!

Schedule:

6:00 AM: Robe chant, Bell rings three times
Zazen for 25 minutes, bell rings once
6:25 AM Chant Pali refuges.

 

BIC Drop-In Guided Sit: Kindhearted Awareness Zoom Meeting
Mar 19 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am

BIC Drop-In Meditation

Meeting Our Lives with Kindhearted Awareness

Tuesdays
10:30  – 11:30 AM

Led by Suzanne Colón


UPDATE: This meditation is offered over Zoom.  Instructions on how to use Zoom may be found here.  You can also use this link to access BDC remote meetings.

This program shares the meditation practices that expand our capacity to meet life with an open, stable heart-mind. Guided meditations will vary week to week, providing an opportunity to try new practices and ways of working with life’s challenges. The four heart qualities known as the Brahma Viharas (Noble Abodes) will be cultivated with variations on ways to evoke and develop them: Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity.

Program Schedule:

10:25 – Zoom Room Opens
10:30 – 10:55 – Guided Meditation
Collective Sharing of Delights or Difficulties
Short Reading: Guidance in the Buddhist Practices of the Heart
Discussion until 11:30

Following the guided meditation, we’ll give each other the opportunity to connect, to be supported in times of difficulty, and be witnessed in times of joy. The collective “Sharing of Delights or Difficulties” is formal practice of briefly naming a sorrow or difficulty, a joy or delight, and having the group witness and resonate with each other’s experience.

No prior meditation experience is needed to attend this program. Please make every effort to arrive by 10:30.

This program is offered freely, which means this is a gift to the community, and you are encouraged to pay the gift forward to help cover costs to the degree that you can. This is a program of the Bozeman Insight Community (BIC), offered to the entire Dharma Center community and general public.

 All people
Everyone is welcome at Dharma Center programs and resident group meetings.
The Dharma Center is an inclusive, safe refuge for all ages, all sizes, all colors, all sexes, all religions, all beliefs, all cultures, all types, of all people.
Please note: our calendar program automatically adds events to the bottom of the page.  These events may not be current.  Please pay attention to dates carefully.
Drop-In Sit
Mar 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Drop-In Meditations

Mondays-Fridays

12:00 – 1:00 pm

(except holidays)

Bell

Everyone is welcome to attend. A bell-ringer will open and close the session with three bells and will ring one bell at 12:30. The meditation will be in silence, but people are welcome to connect before and after each session.

Drop-in meditations are offered free of any charge, as a communal support to practice. Come and go (quietly) as you need to, latecomers welcome.

 All people
Everyone is welcome at Dharma Center programs and resident group meetings.
The Dharma Center is an inclusive, safe refuge for all ages, all sizes, all colors, all sexes, all religions, all beliefs, all cultures, all types, of all people.
Pali Canon Study Group
Mar 19 @ 1:15 pm – 2:15 pm

Pali Canon Study Group

Tuesdays 1:15-2:15 PM

Photo of Middle Length Discourses in Bozeman Dharma Center library

Although Bozeman Dharma Center houses groups from multiple lineages, one thing we all have in common is a reliance on the teachings of the Buddha. The Pali Canon is recognized as the earliest written record of the Buddha’s teachings, given before the Buddhist community divided into different schools. This peer-led study group will begin by tackling readings from the Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha. You do not need to own the book to participate and do not need to commit to attending every week. Already having a practice and familiarity with the Dharma will be helpful.

Basic Schedule

1:15 Short sit
1:30 Read portion of Pali Canon with discussion afterward
2:10 Short sit and closing chant

Spring Equinox Celebration
Mar 19 @ 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm

Celebrate Spring!

Tuesday, March 19
6:30 – 7:45 PM

In Person Only

 

Our MindSpace group is hosting a Spring Equinox celebration. Join us for an evening of meditation and celebrating the turning of the winter into spring. All welcome! No registration necessary!

Mar
20
Wed
2024
Morning Zazen- ONLINE
Mar 20 @ 6:00 am – 6:30 am

Morning Zazen

ONLINE with Bozeman Zen Group

Weekdays, 6 – 6:30 AM

The Bozeman Zen Group is offering online, morning zazen (silent, sitting meditation) to all interested. You do not have to be a Zen practitioner to participate. Start your morning practicing intention!

Schedule:

6:00 AM: Robe chant, Bell rings three times
Zazen for 25 minutes, bell rings once
6:25 AM Chant Pali refuges.

 

Drop-In Sit
Mar 20 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Drop-In Meditations

Mondays-Fridays

12:00 – 1:00 pm

(except holidays)

Bell

Everyone is welcome to attend. A bell-ringer will open and close the session with three bells and will ring one bell at 12:30. The meditation will be in silence, but people are welcome to connect before and after each session.

Drop-in meditations are offered free of any charge, as a communal support to practice. Come and go (quietly) as you need to, latecomers welcome.

 All people
Everyone is welcome at Dharma Center programs and resident group meetings.
The Dharma Center is an inclusive, safe refuge for all ages, all sizes, all colors, all sexes, all religions, all beliefs, all cultures, all types, of all people.
Tergar Bozeman
Mar 20 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Tergar Bozeman

Joy of Living Practice Group

Wednesdays, 5:30 – 7 PM (Mountain Time)
Tea Social Time: 5-5:25

In person and via Zoom

Group/Practice Co-Coordinator: Sheila Devitt & Janet Dochnahl Email: bozeman@tergar.org

No Registration Necessary

Ter is a Tibetan word for treasure,  Gar means gathering.  So, Tergar can be understood as a place where people come together to find the sublime treasure … that helps us calm our minds, open our hearts and awaken wisdom.

We are a practice group within the Tergar International Meditation Community under the guidance of Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. Based on the Joy of Living teachings of Mingyur Rinpoche, our weekly meditation group explores awareness meditation techniques designed to calm the mind, open the heart, and awaken wisdom. Each week we will explore a different topic, using guided meditations, video teachings from Rinpoche, short readings from his first book, The Joy of Living, as well as group discussion and ways to apply these practices to daily life.  

We are using Mingyur Rinpoche’s book The Joy of Living as a supplement to our sessions to give greater context to the practices we share.   It can be purchased by order at Country Bookshelf or online at Amazon.

If you are new to meditation and would like to learn more, or if you are a seasoned practitioner and would like to deepen your practice, please join us as we learn how to transform the challenges of day-to-day life into sources of joy and inner peace. Mingyur Rinpoche’s teachings offer a fresh, accessible approach to these ancient practices. Drop in any time. All are welcome.


Monthly Session Topics

Beginning Feb 28 to May 1st we will do a “deep dive” into “Opening the Heart” – Loving-kindness and Compassion practices.

When meditating on loving-kindness and compassion, we begin by learning to appreciate ourselves which enables us to understand the basic human desires to be happy and free from suffering. This lays the foundation for cultivating loving-kindness and compassion for others, through which we develop a deeply connected relationship with all life. 

During these months we will deeply practice lovinging kindness and compassion for Oneself, for a Loved one, for a Difficult one, and for Neutral ones/All Beings.  

All are welcome to join us in this exploration of these beautiful teachings and practices.  

Those who are subscribed to our weekly newsletter will receive additional information and practice tools related to the topic.

General Schedule

5:00 – 5:25 Tea Social Time
5:15 Newcomer Instruction
5:25 Gather
5:30 Opening Aspiration
        Participants check in on their practice
        Meditation (15-20 minutes)
        Group discussions on particular questions related to the current topic.
        Meditation (15-20 minutes)
        Q&A
7:00 Closing Dedication
* We do two 10 min walking meditations every 3rd week in the Practice only session

 

Learn more about Tergar International! Find more information on The Joy of Living course here. Learn more about Tergar Bozeman here.

Mar
21
Thu
2024
Morning Zazen- ONLINE
Mar 21 @ 6:00 am – 6:30 am

Morning Zazen

ONLINE with Bozeman Zen Group

Weekdays, 6 – 6:30 AM

The Bozeman Zen Group is offering online, morning zazen (silent, sitting meditation) to all interested. You do not have to be a Zen practitioner to participate. Start your morning practicing intention!

Schedule:

6:00 AM: Robe chant, Bell rings three times
Zazen for 25 minutes, bell rings once
6:25 AM Chant Pali refuges.

 

Drop-In Sit
Mar 21 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Drop-In Meditations

Mondays-Fridays

12:00 – 1:00 pm

(except holidays)

Bell

Everyone is welcome to attend. A bell-ringer will open and close the session with three bells and will ring one bell at 12:30. The meditation will be in silence, but people are welcome to connect before and after each session.

Drop-in meditations are offered free of any charge, as a communal support to practice. Come and go (quietly) as you need to, latecomers welcome.

 All people
Everyone is welcome at Dharma Center programs and resident group meetings.
The Dharma Center is an inclusive, safe refuge for all ages, all sizes, all colors, all sexes, all religions, all beliefs, all cultures, all types, of all people.
Dependent Origination Class
Mar 21 @ 7:00 pm – Apr 18 @ 8:30 pm

Dependent Origination and the Path to Freedom

Five Thursdays: April 4- May 2
7-8:30 PM

taught by Suzanne Colón

There’s an essential paradox at the heart of Buddhist practice: We must get exquisitely intimate with the moment-to-moment mind-body experience of the (small, relative) self in order to transcend it. The boat to ‘the far shore’ is built of our messy, frustrating stuff of life on this shore. The way beyond our reactivity, our back pain, our nagging inner commentary is to equanimously and compassionately embrace it. This is Alan Watts’ “backwards law” and the meaning of Dogen’s Genjo Koan.

This class will begin with the teachings on the Five Aggregates and build up to an understanding of the chain of Dependent Origination – the Buddha’s map for what’s going on in human experience, how we get caught and why we suffer. We will explore the practices that intimately “study the self” and how those lead to “forgetting the self.” The chain becomes a liberative cycle of expanding wisdom and freedom.

Each week there will be a suggested home practice to deepen our experiential knowledge of the concepts. The series is designed to be sequential but anyone is welcome to attend sporadically or singly as their schedule and interests allow.

This class, designed for meditators with some experience, will be offered in our weekly Thursday sangha meetings on a drop-in basis. We welcome anyone in the community who’d like to explore the nuances of these intricate teachings of the Buddha’s.


Class Schedule

April 4: The Five Aggregates and the Importance of Vedana (feeling tone)

April 11: Perception, Mis-perception, Mental Formations and the mind’s reactivity

April 18: Further links in the chain: how we get hooked and how we can unhook

April 25: The Chain of Dependent Origination and how it illustrates the Four Noble Truths

May 2: The Liberative chain spiraling toward wisdom, insight, compassion and freedom


Drop in to one, some or all six sessions of the series. No prior registration is necessary.

Zoom connection will be available as per usual on our Thursday evenings.

This course is offered on a dana basis, meaning it is our gift to you, freely offered. We gratefully accept support and gratitude to pay the bills and keep the sangha going. (For those that want it: the suggestion donation would be  $5-15 per session)

The exception is the evening of March 22 – all funds will go to Pamela Weiss, our guest teacher.

Genjo Koan with Pamela Weiss
Mar 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Genjo Koan

with
Pamela Weiss

March 22-24
In Person & Via Zoom

Pamela Weiss joins the Bozeman Insight Community for an evening on Zen master Dogen’s teaching: the Genjo Koan. Dogen writes “To study Buddhism is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.” What does this mean for our everyday lives? Everyone welcome to join for this discussion on the path to liberation. No registration necessary.

Mar
22
Fri
2024
Morning Zazen- ONLINE
Mar 22 @ 6:00 am – 6:30 am

Morning Zazen

ONLINE with Bozeman Zen Group

Weekdays, 6 – 6:30 AM

The Bozeman Zen Group is offering online, morning zazen (silent, sitting meditation) to all interested. You do not have to be a Zen practitioner to participate. Start your morning practicing intention!

Schedule:

6:00 AM: Robe chant, Bell rings three times
Zazen for 25 minutes, bell rings once
6:25 AM Chant Pali refuges.

 

Drop-In Sit
Mar 22 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Drop-In Meditations

Mondays-Fridays

12:00 – 1:00 pm

(except holidays)

Bell

Everyone is welcome to attend. A bell-ringer will open and close the session with three bells and will ring one bell at 12:30. The meditation will be in silence, but people are welcome to connect before and after each session.

Drop-in meditations are offered free of any charge, as a communal support to practice. Come and go (quietly) as you need to, latecomers welcome.

 All people
Everyone is welcome at Dharma Center programs and resident group meetings.
The Dharma Center is an inclusive, safe refuge for all ages, all sizes, all colors, all sexes, all religions, all beliefs, all cultures, all types, of all people.
Afternoon Meditation
Mar 22 @ 5:20 pm – 6:00 pm

Afternoon Meditation

5:20-6:00 PM

Mondays & Fridays
IN PERSON ONLY

Join us for this drop-in sit hosted by the Bozeman Zen Group. We will sit silently for 35 minutes and then do a short chant. All welcome!

Finding Refuge: Retreat with Pamela Weiss
Mar 22 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Finding Refuge

Retreat with Pamela Weiss

March 22-24

The word refuge comes from the Latin, re-fuge, which means to fly back, to return, to come home. So much of our suffering comes from “lookin’ for love in all the wrong places…” We imagine we will find love, safety, refuge out there somewhere. But Buddhist practice teaches us that true refuge is always and already right here. Right where we are, just as we are.

This is not an invitation to apathy or passivity. It is a call to do the difficult, deeply satisfying work of transforming our tangles (reactive habits and patterns) into clear, compassionate action. This is what it means to be a Bodhisattva, a person dedicated to alleviating suffering—ours, others’, the worlds’—and to walk the Bodhisattva Path. It is exactly what our wide, aching world needs now.

Over the course of this weekend, we will focus on the theme of Finding True Refuge, and explore how to untangle our personal and collective tangles within our beautiful, aching world.

Schedule

Thursday, March 21, 7-8:30 PM: Pamela will join Bozeman Insight Community to discuss the Genjo Koan (No registration necessary)
Friday, March 22, 7-9 PM: Teachings on Refuge (There is an option for registering only for Friday night)
Saturday, March 23: 9 AM – 4 PM: The Three Jewels
Sunday, March 24: 9 AM – Noon: Closing Thoughts and Full Moon ceremony

About Pamela Weiss

Pamela Weiss has been practicing Buddhism since 1987, including several years of Zen monastic training at Tassajara, and teacher training with Jack Kornfield at Spirit Rock. Pamela leads a weekly sitting group through San Francisco Insight and offers retreats and workshops internationally.

She is also an executive coach and Founder of Appropriate Response, a company that has brought the power of mindful awareness to hundreds of leaders and organizations including Genentech, Salesforce and Pixar.

Mar
23
Sat
2024
Finding Refuge: Retreat with Pamela Weiss
Mar 23 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Finding Refuge

Retreat with Pamela Weiss

March 22-24

The word refuge comes from the Latin, re-fuge, which means to fly back, to return, to come home. So much of our suffering comes from “lookin’ for love in all the wrong places…” We imagine we will find love, safety, refuge out there somewhere. But Buddhist practice teaches us that true refuge is always and already right here. Right where we are, just as we are.

This is not an invitation to apathy or passivity. It is a call to do the difficult, deeply satisfying work of transforming our tangles (reactive habits and patterns) into clear, compassionate action. This is what it means to be a Bodhisattva, a person dedicated to alleviating suffering—ours, others’, the worlds’—and to walk the Bodhisattva Path. It is exactly what our wide, aching world needs now.

Over the course of this weekend, we will focus on the theme of Finding True Refuge, and explore how to untangle our personal and collective tangles within our beautiful, aching world.

Schedule

Thursday, March 21, 7-8:30 PM: Pamela will join Bozeman Insight Community to discuss the Genjo Koan (No registration necessary)
Friday, March 22, 7-9 PM: Teachings on Refuge (There is an option for registering only for Friday night)
Saturday, March 23: 9 AM – 4 PM: The Three Jewels
Sunday, March 24: 9 AM – Noon: Closing Thoughts and Full Moon ceremony

About Pamela Weiss

Pamela Weiss has been practicing Buddhism since 1987, including several years of Zen monastic training at Tassajara, and teacher training with Jack Kornfield at Spirit Rock. Pamela leads a weekly sitting group through San Francisco Insight and offers retreats and workshops internationally.

She is also an executive coach and Founder of Appropriate Response, a company that has brought the power of mindful awareness to hundreds of leaders and organizations including Genentech, Salesforce and Pixar.

Mar
24
Sun
2024
Finding Refuge: Retreat with Pamela Weiss
Mar 24 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Finding Refuge

Retreat with Pamela Weiss

March 22-24

The word refuge comes from the Latin, re-fuge, which means to fly back, to return, to come home. So much of our suffering comes from “lookin’ for love in all the wrong places…” We imagine we will find love, safety, refuge out there somewhere. But Buddhist practice teaches us that true refuge is always and already right here. Right where we are, just as we are.

This is not an invitation to apathy or passivity. It is a call to do the difficult, deeply satisfying work of transforming our tangles (reactive habits and patterns) into clear, compassionate action. This is what it means to be a Bodhisattva, a person dedicated to alleviating suffering—ours, others’, the worlds’—and to walk the Bodhisattva Path. It is exactly what our wide, aching world needs now.

Over the course of this weekend, we will focus on the theme of Finding True Refuge, and explore how to untangle our personal and collective tangles within our beautiful, aching world.

Schedule

Thursday, March 21, 7-8:30 PM: Pamela will join Bozeman Insight Community to discuss the Genjo Koan (No registration necessary)
Friday, March 22, 7-9 PM: Teachings on Refuge (There is an option for registering only for Friday night)
Saturday, March 23: 9 AM – 4 PM: The Three Jewels
Sunday, March 24: 9 AM – Noon: Closing Thoughts and Full Moon ceremony

About Pamela Weiss

Pamela Weiss has been practicing Buddhism since 1987, including several years of Zen monastic training at Tassajara, and teacher training with Jack Kornfield at Spirit Rock. Pamela leads a weekly sitting group through San Francisco Insight and offers retreats and workshops internationally.

She is also an executive coach and Founder of Appropriate Response, a company that has brought the power of mindful awareness to hundreds of leaders and organizations including Genentech, Salesforce and Pixar.

Mar
25
Mon
2024
Morning Zazen- ONLINE
Mar 25 @ 6:00 am – 6:30 am

Morning Zazen

ONLINE with Bozeman Zen Group

Weekdays, 6 – 6:30 AM

The Bozeman Zen Group is offering online, morning zazen (silent, sitting meditation) to all interested. You do not have to be a Zen practitioner to participate. Start your morning practicing intention!

Schedule:

6:00 AM: Robe chant, Bell rings three times
Zazen for 25 minutes, bell rings once
6:25 AM Chant Pali refuges.