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.
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.
Drop-In Meditations
Mondays-Fridays
12:00 – 1:00 pm
(except holidays)
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.
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
Tuesdays 1:15-2:15 PM
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
Mobility for Meditation
Tuesday, September 26
5:00-5:30
In person
Taught by Amy Strom
certified yoga therapist
Dealing with physical discomfort when sitting? This 30 min program includes movements that can help support your sitting practice. No registration necessary. Stay for the drop-in sit at 5:30!
Afternoon Meditation
5:30-6:15 PM
Mondays, Tuesdays, & Fridays
IN PERSON ONLY
Join us for this drop-in sit hosted by the Bozeman Zen Group. We will sit silently for 40 minutes and then do a short chant. All welcome!
MindSpace
A Meditation Group for adults Ages 18 – 40
Tuesdays 6:30 – 7:45 pm
In Person Only
“Develop a mind that is vast like space.”
-the Buddha
MindSpace is an open community gathering of adults roughly 18 to 40. Through meditation we foster a clear mind, compassionate heart, and develop an intimacy with human experiences. We encourage and support each other in daily practice to embody mindfulness in everyday life.
This is a place for all cultural backgrounds and religious perspectives to be present with all life has given. Come to try out meditation, or share your experiences, all levels welcome. Come to be in a supportive space and practice various traditions of Buddhism. Come to cultivate awareness and bring present day topics to the light of awakening. Come and see.
If you have any questions about this group, please email us at
mindspace@gmail.com
Fundamentals of Meditation
We’ll cover these themes over the first six weeks of the group.
Current Facilitators
Kerry Neal has practiced in the Zen tradition for 8 years. She sits with the Bozeman Zen Group. She helped start MindSpace in 2016 and facilitated until early 2019. She loves the lifelong nature that is meditation practice and working mindfulness into everyday life.
Mary Corelli has 12 years of practice in the Zen and Insight Meditation traditions. She is a mother and a therapist. Mary is a Certified Mindfulness Teacher through Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s two year training program. She emphasizes ecological awareness in practice.
Palyul Tibetan Buddhist Sangha
Meditation/Book Reading Group Tuesdays 7-8 PM via Zoom
Note that the Zoom link for Palyul (below) is not the same as the regular BDC Zoom link.
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 Meditations
Mondays-Fridays
12:00 – 1:00 pm
(except holidays)
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.
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
Joy of Living Practice Group
Wednesdays, 5:30 – 7 PM (Mountain Time)
Group Coordinator: Sheila Devitt
Email: bozeman@tergar.org
No Registration Necessary
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 will have Rinpoche’s books Joy and Living and Joyful Wisdom available for purchase and a few copies will be available for check out in the library. These can also be purchased on 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.
Learn more about Tergar International!
Find more information on The Joy of Living course here.
Learn more about Tergar Bozeman here.
The Core Skills of a Meditation Practice
with Guest Teacher Melissa McKay
Four Wednesdays
September 20, 27, October 4 & 11
7:15-8:45 PM
Designed to be both an intro for beginners and a tune-up for those with experience, this course will clarify your home practice. Come learn from a master teacher, re-fuel and get inspired. Early Bird pricing through September 6!
About Melissa
Melissa McKay has been practicing meditation since the mid 90’s. She has trained in vipassana (insight, mindfulness) meditation and metta meditation in Burma and the U.S.
She began teaching in New York City in 2003 in her yoga studio in Brooklyn. She teaches with InsightLA, MNDFL and Wanderlust.
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 Meditations
Mondays-Fridays
12:00 – 1:00 pm
(except holidays)
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.
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.
SoundGate Meditation
Thursdays, 5:30-6:15
Beginning September 21
This new weekly program will offer an opportunity to meditate using sound as a source of concentration. Experience how the union of breath and sound can anchor you in the present moment. No prior experience or registration necessary.
The Buddha instructed his students to bring awareness and sensory clarity to each of the six sense “gates” of experience. Just as we can anchor in breathing, we can anchor in body sensations, seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling or mindfully track the activity of the thinking mind.
These SoundGate Meditations offer a sound-scape of sensory experience to be your object of meditation, allowing you to linger in the experience of hearing (and take a break from other sense gates perhaps). A variety of sounds will be offered, bells and bowls, chanting, music, recordings of the natural world and soundscapes of our common humanity. While most are designed to be pleasant and carry beneficial intention, some will be neutral or varied in content.
You may simply relax and bathe in harmonious sound, or more intentionally bring elements of Insight practice to your meditation.
Check our listings below to see what will be offered when, or simply drop in with curiosity and explore.
September 21
Ann Marvin returns with her collection of Tibetan crystal bowls to create a healing soundscape of vibration and energy to celebrate the Fall Equinox. Many of you may enjoyed her offering at our Summer Solstice event and we’re pleased to have her back to launch our SoundGate series.
September 28
Annika Sophia Grace will share her angelic voice, singing and leading a Buddhist chant. Annika enjoys singing from the heart for healing and uplifting humanity and our planet. You may listen and savor the sound and intention of the chant or join in and offer your voice as well. The text of the Pali chant will be provided with an English translation.
October 5
The mission of Threshold singing groups is to bring comfort, beauty and companionship to those at the threshold of life. They offer the balm of music to soothe listeners in deep transitions- healing and easing into life or death.
Developing the Qualities of the Heart
Four Thursday Evenings,
7:00 – 8:30 PM
Sept 21 through Oct 12
7-8:30 PM
Guest teacher, Melissa McKay, will guide a meditation, offer teachings and take questions on these four consecutive Thursdays. Each week will explore one of the four Brahma Viharas or “noble abodes of the heart.”
Sept 21: Metta, kind-hearted warmth and friendliness
Sept 28: Compassion, for self and world
Oct 5: Resonant Joy, being available for Delight
Oct 12: Equanimity; staying balanced, present and wise through life’s ups and downs.
Drop in, in person or over zoom; all welcome!
About Melissa
Melissa McKay has been practicing meditation since the mid 90’s. She has trained in vipassana (insight, mindfulness) meditation and metta meditation in Burma and the U.S.
She began teaching in New York City in 2003 in her yoga studio in Brooklyn. She teaches with InsightLA, MNDFL and Wanderlust.
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 Meditations
Mondays-Fridays
12:00 – 1:00 pm
(except holidays)
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.
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
5:30-6:15 PM
Mondays, Tuesdays, & Fridays
IN PERSON ONLY
Join us for this drop-in sit hosted by the Bozeman Zen Group. We will sit silently for 40 minutes and then do a short chant. All welcome!
Metta-Infused Insight Practice
with Melissa McKay
Saturday, September 30th
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM (Mountain Time)
Step into a day of transformative wisdom led by visiting Insight teacher, Melissa McKay.
This retreat is designed to develop our essential kindness, hone our mindfulness skills and guide us to an open-hearted equanimity with all experience. Join us for a nourishing journey that combines the power of Metta (loving-kindness) with the clarity of Insight Meditation. Early Bird registration through 9/14!
About Melissa
Melissa McKay has been practicing meditation since the mid 90’s. She has trained in Insight meditation and metta meditation at monasteries in Burma and retreat centers in the U.S. She began teaching in New York City in 2003 in her yoga studio in Brooklyn. More recently she has lived in Las Vegas and teaches with InsightLA, MNDFL and Wanderlust. She was recently given a grant by Hemera Foundation to write a book on Buddhist practice and meditation.
Sunday Morning Zazen
with the Bozeman Zen Group
8:00 – 9:15 am
This group meets our need for shared practice using the Zoom platform. Instructions on how to use Zoom may be found here. You can also use this link to attend this meeting.
Our time together will include meditation, chanting, and a Dharma talk, activity, or practice.
Anyone and everyone is welcome – newcomers and beginners are always welcome, just let us know if you are new and we’ll make introductions and offer instructions.
For more about the Bozeman Zen Group and our teacher, Karen DeCotis, please click here to go to our website.
Please note: these Sunday mornings will not be held when the Dharma Center is hosting a weekend retreat. Please check this website’s calendar if you’d like to be sure of the meeting. Thank you.
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