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SUMMARY:Morning Zazen: Online
DESCRIPTION:Morning Zazen\nONLINE with Bozeman Zen Group\nWeekdays\, 6 – 6:30 AM\n \nStart your morning practicing intention! The Bozeman Zen Group offers online\, morning zazen (silent\, sitting meditation) to all interested. You do not have to be a Zen practitioner to participate.  \n \nSchedule:\n6:00 AM: Robe chant\, Bell rings three times\nZazen for 25 minutes\, bell rings once\n6:25 AM Chant Pali refuges
URL:https://bozemandharmacenter.org/event/morning-zazen-online-2/2025-04-02/
LOCATION:Online Offering
CATEGORIES:Non-denominational/Secular
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SUMMARY:Noon Sit
DESCRIPTION:Drop-In Meditation\nMondays-Fridays\n12:00 – 1:00 pm\n(except holidays)\n\nIn Person\n \nEveryone 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. \nDrop-in meditations are offered free of any charge\, as a communal support to practice. Come and go (quietly) as you need to\, latecomers welcome.
URL:https://bozemandharmacenter.org/event/noon-sit-3/2025-04-02/
LOCATION:3810 Valley Commons Dr\, #6
CATEGORIES:Non-denominational/Secular
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SUMMARY:Tergar Bozeman Practice Group
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, 5:30 – 7 PM (Mountain Time)\nTea Social Time: 5-5:25\nIn person and via Zoom\nGroup/Practice Co-Coordinator: Sheila\, Janet & Rex Email: bozeman@tergar.org \nNo Registration Necessary\nTer 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. \nGeneral Schedule\n5:00 – 5:25 Tea Social Time\n5:15 Newcomer Instruction\n5:25 Gather\n5:30 Opening Aspiration\n        Participants check in on their practice\n        Meditation (15-20 minutes)\n        Group discussions on particular questions related to the current topic.\n        Meditation (15-20 minutes)\n        Q&A\n7:00 Closing Dedication\n* We do two 10 min walking meditations every 3rd week in the Practice only session \n\n Under the guidance of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche\, the Tergar Meditation Practice Group of Bozeman gathers to study and practice meditation. Mingyur Rinpoche’s approach to meditation focuses on the practice of mindful awareness\, which unlocks the door to a calm mind\, compassionate heart\, and insight into the challenges of day-to-day life. Rinpoche’s teachings emphasize universal principles that are of profound benefit to people of all faiths and belief systems. 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.  Each session will include guided meditation and group discussion. \n\nMonthly Session Topics\nTergar’s Joy of Living With newly revised material and videos.\nTergar’s Joy of Living is a curriculum developed by Mingyur Rinpoche and Tergar International.  Our Leaders present these materials weekly. \nWe learn\, contemplate and meditate to become familiar with our mind\, to open our hearts and to fully develop the wisdom of knowing we are whole and complete just as we are…we are not broken\, in knowing this we see its true also of all others. \n\n“We are not training in order to learn about objects. We are training to learn about our mind\, because our mind holds the source of all possibilities—good and bad\, happy and sad\, sane and neurotic. Freedom exists within our very own heart and mind.” ~Mingyur Rinpoche \n\nTopic for December:  Born to Flourish \nDec 3rd   Topic #3  Insight  – leader\, Janet \nDec 10th  Topic #4  Purpose – Life Worth Living –  leader\, Sheila \nDec 17th  Review and Practice session of the practices presented in this section\nleader\, Sheila \nDec 24th and 31st   No meeting – Christmas\, Hanukkah\, New Years Holidays  \nThe program includes recorded video teachings from Mingyur Rinpoche and other Tergar instructiors. 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. \n\nNectar of the Path Practice\nSundays 8 am to 8:45 am – online (NOT the BDC zoom link)    What is this practice about?  This practice “Nectar of the Path” was written by Mingyur Rinpoche to be practiced by any of his students however experienced they might be. “Nectar” signifies a distillation of something very precious and nourishing. Nectar of the Path is a complete practice encompassing all of the essential aspects of a traditional Tibetan Buddhist practice. In this practice we mix contemplation and meditation\, alternating periods of each and chanting in Tibetan and some visualization. If you are interested in joining this practice group\, or have questions\, please send an email to bozemantergarsmd@gmail.com  and tell us your interest\, how you learned about us\, if you are new to Nectar or have experience with the practice…. .  Information on the practice\, the practice liturgy\, and the zoom link will be sent to you.  \n\nLearn more about Tergar International! Find more information on The Joy of Living course here. Learn more about Tergar Bozeman here.
URL:https://bozemandharmacenter.org/event/tergar-bozeman-practice-group-4/2025-04-02/
LOCATION:Hybrid Meeting
CATEGORIES:Tibetan Lineage
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SUMMARY:Tergar Bozeman Practice Group
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, 5:30 – 7 PM (Mountain Time)\nTea Social Time: 5-5:25\nIn person and via Zoom\nGroup/Practice Co-Coordinator: Sheila\, Janet & Rex Email: bozeman@tergar.org \nNo Registration Necessary\n  \n  \nTer 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. \nGeneral Schedule\n5:00 – 5:25 Tea Social Time5:15 Newcomer Instruction5:25 Gather5:30 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&A7:00 Closing Dedication* We do two 10 min walking meditations every 3rd week in the Practice only session   \n\n Under the guidance of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche\, the Tergar Meditation Practice Group of Bozeman gathers to study and practice meditation. Mingyur Rinpoche’s approach to meditation focuses on the practice of mindful awareness\, which unlocks the door to a calm mind\, compassionate heart\, and insight into the challenges of day-to-day life. Rinpoche’s teachings emphasize universal principles that are of profound benefit to people of all faiths and belief systems. 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.  Each session will include guided meditation and group discussion. \n\nMonthly Session Topics\nTergar’s Joy of Living With newly revised material and videos.\n“All that we are looking for in life — all the happiness\, contentment\, and peace of mind — is right here in the present moment.” \nOver the next few months we will learn meditation techniques to help us know and calm our minds\, open our hearts more fully and develop the wisdom of knowing that “we are whole and complete just as we are…we are not broken.” Come\, join us for these inspiring\, life changing teachings. Topic for March:   \n\n5th – Anytime Anywhere  Since awareness is always with us\, we can meditate anywhere\, and anytime\, even in challenging or chaotic situations.  \n\n\n\nWaterfall of Thoughts – When we begin to meditate\, one of the meditation experiences we have is what we call the “waterfall experience.” This means that you might feel like your meditation is getting worse. So now what’s happened? \n\n\n\n 12th  Introduction to Waterfall of Thoughts 19th Deepening  \n 26th  with Guest Teacher Tim Olmsted -We welcome Tim Olmsted via zoom to give a teaching and to host a Q&A session. Tim is a skilled Senior Tergar International Instructor\, and co- founder of Tergar International. He spent 11 years in his youth in Nepal studying with Tulku Urygen Rinpoche\, father of our guiding teacher Mingyur Rinpoche. He is the spiritual guide of the Buddhist Center of Steamboat Springs CO. Tim’s teaching style is warm and inviting and very heartfelt.  \nThe program includes recorded video teachings from Mingyur Rinpoche and other Tergar instructiors. 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. \n\nNectar of the Path Practice\nSundays 8 am to 8:45 am – online (NOT the BDC zoom link)    What is this practice about?  This practice “Nectar of the Path” was written by Mingyur Rinpoche to be practiced by any of his students however experienced they might be. “Nectar” signifies a distillation of something very precious and nourishing. Nectar of the Path is a complete practice encompassing all of the essential aspects of a traditional Tibetan Buddhist practice. In this practice we mix contemplation and meditation\, alternating periods of each and chanting in Tibetan and some visualization. If you are interested in joining this practice group\, or have questions\, please send an email to bozemantergarsmd@gmail.com  and tell us your interest\, how you learned about us\, if you are new to Nectar or have experience with the practice…. .  Information on the practice\, the practice liturgy\, and the zoom link will be sent to you.  \n\nLearn more about Tergar International! Find more information on The Joy of Living course here. Learn more about Tergar Bozeman here.
URL:https://bozemandharmacenter.org/event/tergar-bozeman-practice-group-3/2025-04-02/
LOCATION:Hybrid Meeting
CATEGORIES:Tibetan Lineage
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SUMMARY:Tergar Special Guest Tim Omsted!
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, 5:30 – 7 PM (Mountain Time)\nTea Social Time: 5-5:25\nIn person and via Zoom\nGroup/Practice Co-Coordinator: Sheila\, Janet & Rex Email: bozeman@tergar.org \nNo Registration Necessary\n  \nTergar Bozeman Welcomes Tim Olmstead\nWednesday\, March 26!\nTim is a skilled Senior Tergar International Instructor and co- founder of Tergar International. He spent 11 years in Nepal studying with Tulku Urygen Rinpoche\, father of Tergar’s guiding teacher Mingyur Rinpoche.  Tim is the spiritual guide of the Buddhist Center of Steamboat Springs\, CO.  Tim’s teaching style is warm and inviting and very heart felt.  Please join us for this wonderful opportunity. In person or online. \n\nTer 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. \nGeneral Schedule\n5:00 – 5:25 Tea Social Time5:15 Newcomer Instruction5:25 Gather5:30 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&A7:00 Closing Dedication* We do two 10 min walking meditations every 3rd week in the Practice only session   \n\n Under the guidance of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche\, the Tergar Meditation Practice Group of Bozeman gathers to study and practice meditation. Mingyur Rinpoche’s approach to meditation focuses on the practice of mindful awareness\, which unlocks the door to a calm mind\, compassionate heart\, and insight into the challenges of day-to-day life. Rinpoche’s teachings emphasize universal principles that are of profound benefit to people of all faiths and belief systems. 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.  Each session will include guided meditation and group discussion. \n\nMonthly Session Topics\nTergar’s Joy of Living With newly revised material and videos.\n“All that we are looking for in life — all the happiness\, contentment\, and peace of mind — is right here in the present moment.” \nOver the next few months we will learn meditation techniques to help us know and calm our minds\, open our hearts more fully and develop the wisdom of knowing that “we are whole and complete just as we are…we are not broken.” Come\, join us for these inspiring\, life changing teachings. Topic for March:   \n\n5th – Anytime Anywhere  Since awareness is always with us\, we can meditate anywhere\, and anytime\, even in challenging or chaotic situations.  \n\n\n\nWaterfall of Thoughts – When we begin to meditate\, one of the meditation experiences we have is what we call the “waterfall experience.” This means that you might feel like your meditation is getting worse. So now what’s happened? \n\n\n\n 12th  Introduction to Waterfall of Thoughts 19th Deepening  \n 26th  with Guest Teacher Tim Olmsted -We welcome Tim Olmsted via zoom to give a teaching and to host a Q&A session. Tim is a skilled Senior Tergar International Instructor\, and co- founder of Tergar International. He spent 11 years in his youth in Nepal studying with Tulku Urygen Rinpoche\, father of our guiding teacher Mingyur Rinpoche. He is the spiritual guide of the Buddhist Center of Steamboat Springs CO. Tim’s teaching style is warm and inviting and very heartfelt.  \nThe program includes recorded video teachings from Mingyur Rinpoche and other Tergar instructiors. 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. \n\nNectar of the Path Practice\nSundays 8 am to 8:45 am – online (NOT the BDC zoom link)    What is this practice about?  This practice “Nectar of the Path” was written by Mingyur Rinpoche to be practiced by any of his students however experienced they might be. “Nectar” signifies a distillation of something very precious and nourishing. Nectar of the Path is a complete practice encompassing all of the essential aspects of a traditional Tibetan Buddhist practice. In this practice we mix contemplation and meditation\, alternating periods of each and chanting in Tibetan and some visualization. If you are interested in joining this practice group\, or have questions\, please send an email to bozemantergarsmd@gmail.com  and tell us your interest\, how you learned about us\, if you are new to Nectar or have experience with the practice…. .  Information on the practice\, the practice liturgy\, and the zoom link will be sent to you.  \n\nLearn more about Tergar International! Find more information on The Joy of Living course here. Learn more about Tergar Bozeman here.
URL:https://bozemandharmacenter.org/event/tergar-special-guest-tim-omsted/2025-04-02/
LOCATION:Hybrid Meeting
CATEGORIES:Tibetan Lineage
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