Being Centered in Difficult Times
with Tempel Smith
Saturday, June 3
10 AM – 4:30 PM
In person with Zoom option
Over the past two and a half millennia of human history, the teachings of the Buddha have helped people in many countries see their way through pleasant and difficult times. Even during the life of the Buddha, the world of India was going through many changes and social upheaval. The country of Sri Lanka faithfully propagated his teachings and meditation techniques during civil wars and invasions from foreign lands and now Buddhist activists worldwide use these teachings to sustain themselves through their own country’s civil unrest.
Bringing these Sri Lankan teachings to meet the challenges of today, Buddhist practitioners have found inner sanctuary to stay grounded, open minded, and firm in their ethical attunement. In this retreat day, we will explore those wise perspectives and helpful practices to meet the anger, anxiety, grief or fear that can arise from our current social and political conditions.
Appropriate for both new and experienced practitioners.
Prior registration is required. In-person attendance limited to 30 participants, online Zoom participation is unlimited. Zoom number provided upon registration (does not use the normal Zoom number). Please register early so we can make sure we have enough space for everyone.
About Tempel
Tempel Smith began practicing meditation in 1989 at Insight Meditation Society (IMS). He has taught meditation and Buddhist psychology since 2001 and is a senior teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, leading retreats and directing their dedicated practitioner program.
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 will share 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.
Weekly Meeting of the
Bozeman Insight Community
Thursdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Thursday night meetings have both in-person and remote attendance options
Instructions on how to use Zoom may be found here.
You can use this link to attend BIC meetings remotely. If you are asked for a passcode, please use 108108.
Bozeman Insight Community (BIC) is a welcoming community that offers the Buddha’s priceless teachings on wisdom and compassion to all those who seek them. Centered on a commitment to personal practice we support the development and expression of our inherent wisdom and compassion for the benefit of all beings.
The program usually begins with a 40-minute silent sitting, followed by tea, instruction from the leader and discussion.
All are warmly welcome to drop in and join us – no prior experience necessary.
BIC Leadership
Sangha Leader – Suzanne Colón
For leader’s bios, more information about this group and to see program updates,
please click this link to go to the BIC’s website.
BIC events and programs in the Insight (Vipassana) lineage are shown in blue on the Dharma Center’s listings.
This calendar program automatically offers links to other events at the bottom of this page. These events may be wildly out of date. Please check the date and year of any event you access via these arrows. Thank you!
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 will share 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.
Weekly Meeting of the
Bozeman Insight Community
Thursdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Thursday night meetings have both in-person and remote attendance options
Instructions on how to use Zoom may be found here.
You can use this link to attend BIC meetings remotely. If you are asked for a passcode, please use 108108.
Bozeman Insight Community (BIC) is a welcoming community that offers the Buddha’s priceless teachings on wisdom and compassion to all those who seek them. Centered on a commitment to personal practice we support the development and expression of our inherent wisdom and compassion for the benefit of all beings.
The program usually begins with a 40-minute silent sitting, followed by tea, instruction from the leader and discussion.
All are warmly welcome to drop in and join us – no prior experience necessary.
BIC Leadership
Sangha Leader – Suzanne Colón
For leader’s bios, more information about this group and to see program updates,
please click this link to go to the BIC’s website.
BIC events and programs in the Insight (Vipassana) lineage are shown in blue on the Dharma Center’s listings.
This calendar program automatically offers links to other events at the bottom of this page. These events may be wildly out of date. Please check the date and year of any event you access via these arrows. Thank you!
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 will share 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.
BIC hosts
Thai Master Somananda Yogi
Thursday, June 22
7 – 8:30 PM
BIC is excited to have guest Somananda Yogi speak via Zoom this evening. Somananda Yogi is an American-born master in Thai Medicine and meditation practices. He will join us via zoom from Thailand. This promises to be a fascinating evening!
This evening is freely offered; contributions to support the teachings are gratefully accepted in the time-honored generosity practice of dāna.
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 will share 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.
Weekly Meeting of the
Bozeman Insight Community
Thursdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Thursday night meetings have both in-person and remote attendance options
Instructions on how to use Zoom may be found here.
You can use this link to attend BIC meetings remotely. If you are asked for a passcode, please use 108108.
Bozeman Insight Community (BIC) is a welcoming community that offers the Buddha’s priceless teachings on wisdom and compassion to all those who seek them. Centered on a commitment to personal practice we support the development and expression of our inherent wisdom and compassion for the benefit of all beings.
The program usually begins with a 40-minute silent sitting, followed by tea, instruction from the leader and discussion.
All are warmly welcome to drop in and join us – no prior experience necessary.
BIC Leadership
Sangha Leader – Suzanne Colón
For leader’s bios, more information about this group and to see program updates,
please click this link to go to the BIC’s website.
BIC events and programs in the Insight (Vipassana) lineage are shown in blue on the Dharma Center’s listings.
This calendar program automatically offers links to other events at the bottom of this page. These events may be wildly out of date. Please check the date and year of any event you access via these arrows. Thank you!
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 will share 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.
Weekly Meeting of the
Bozeman Insight Community
Thursdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Thursday night meetings have both in-person and remote attendance options
Instructions on how to use Zoom may be found here.
You can use this link to attend BIC meetings remotely. If you are asked for a passcode, please use 108108.
Bozeman Insight Community (BIC) is a welcoming community that offers the Buddha’s priceless teachings on wisdom and compassion to all those who seek them. Centered on a commitment to personal practice we support the development and expression of our inherent wisdom and compassion for the benefit of all beings.
The program usually begins with a 40-minute silent sitting, followed by tea, instruction from the leader and discussion.
All are warmly welcome to drop in and join us – no prior experience necessary.
BIC Leadership
Sangha Leader – Suzanne Colón
For leader’s bios, more information about this group and to see program updates,
please click this link to go to the BIC’s website.
BIC events and programs in the Insight (Vipassana) lineage are shown in blue on the Dharma Center’s listings.
This calendar program automatically offers links to other events at the bottom of this page. These events may be wildly out of date. Please check the date and year of any event you access via these arrows. Thank you!
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 will share 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.
Weekly Meeting of the
Bozeman Insight Community
Thursdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Thursday night meetings have both in-person and remote attendance options
Instructions on how to use Zoom may be found here.
You can use this link to attend BIC meetings remotely. If you are asked for a passcode, please use 108108.
Bozeman Insight Community (BIC) is a welcoming community that offers the Buddha’s priceless teachings on wisdom and compassion to all those who seek them. Centered on a commitment to personal practice we support the development and expression of our inherent wisdom and compassion for the benefit of all beings.
The program usually begins with a 40-minute silent sitting, followed by tea, instruction from the leader and discussion.
All are warmly welcome to drop in and join us – no prior experience necessary.
BIC Leadership
Sangha Leader – Suzanne Colón
For leader’s bios, more information about this group and to see program updates,
please click this link to go to the BIC’s website.
BIC events and programs in the Insight (Vipassana) lineage are shown in blue on the Dharma Center’s listings.
This calendar program automatically offers links to other events at the bottom of this page. These events may be wildly out of date. Please check the date and year of any event you access via these arrows. Thank you!
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 will share 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.
Weekly Meeting of the
Bozeman Insight Community
Thursdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Thursday night meetings have both in-person and remote attendance options
Instructions on how to use Zoom may be found here.
You can use this link to attend BIC meetings remotely. If you are asked for a passcode, please use 108108.
Bozeman Insight Community (BIC) is a welcoming community that offers the Buddha’s priceless teachings on wisdom and compassion to all those who seek them. Centered on a commitment to personal practice we support the development and expression of our inherent wisdom and compassion for the benefit of all beings.
The program usually begins with a 40-minute silent sitting, followed by tea, instruction from the leader and discussion.
All are warmly welcome to drop in and join us – no prior experience necessary.
BIC Leadership
Sangha Leader – Suzanne Colón
For leader’s bios, more information about this group and to see program updates,
please click this link to go to the BIC’s website.
BIC events and programs in the Insight (Vipassana) lineage are shown in blue on the Dharma Center’s listings.
This calendar program automatically offers links to other events at the bottom of this page. These events may be wildly out of date. Please check the date and year of any event you access via these arrows. Thank you!
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 will share 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.
Weekly Meeting of the
Bozeman Insight Community
Thursdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Thursday night meetings have both in-person and remote attendance options
Instructions on how to use Zoom may be found here.
You can use this link to attend BIC meetings remotely. If you are asked for a passcode, please use 108108.
Bozeman Insight Community (BIC) is a welcoming community that offers the Buddha’s priceless teachings on wisdom and compassion to all those who seek them. Centered on a commitment to personal practice we support the development and expression of our inherent wisdom and compassion for the benefit of all beings.
The program usually begins with a 40-minute silent sitting, followed by tea, instruction from the leader and discussion.
All are warmly welcome to drop in and join us – no prior experience necessary.
BIC Leadership
Sangha Leader – Suzanne Colón
For leader’s bios, more information about this group and to see program updates,
please click this link to go to the BIC’s website.
BIC events and programs in the Insight (Vipassana) lineage are shown in blue on the Dharma Center’s listings.
This calendar program automatically offers links to other events at the bottom of this page. These events may be wildly out of date. Please check the date and year of any event you access via these arrows. Thank you!
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 will share 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.
Weekly Meeting of the
Bozeman Insight Community
Thursdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Thursday night meetings have both in-person and remote attendance options
Instructions on how to use Zoom may be found here.
You can use this link to attend BIC meetings remotely. If you are asked for a passcode, please use 108108.
Bozeman Insight Community (BIC) is a welcoming community that offers the Buddha’s priceless teachings on wisdom and compassion to all those who seek them. Centered on a commitment to personal practice we support the development and expression of our inherent wisdom and compassion for the benefit of all beings.
The program usually begins with a 40-minute silent sitting, followed by tea, instruction from the leader and discussion.
All are warmly welcome to drop in and join us – no prior experience necessary.
BIC Leadership
Sangha Leader – Suzanne Colón
For leader’s bios, more information about this group and to see program updates,
please click this link to go to the BIC’s website.
BIC events and programs in the Insight (Vipassana) lineage are shown in blue on the Dharma Center’s listings.
This calendar program automatically offers links to other events at the bottom of this page. These events may be wildly out of date. Please check the date and year of any event you access via these arrows. Thank you!
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 will share 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.