Apr
2
Tue
2024
BIC Drop-In Guided Sit: Kindhearted Awareness Zoom Meeting
Apr 2 @ 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.
Apr
4
Thu
2024
Dependent Origination Class
Apr 4 @ 7:00 pm – 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 five 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.

Apr
6
Sat
2024
The Two Truths: BIC 1/2 Day
Apr 6 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

“The Two Truths”

Dancing with life as an interplay of the Dual and the Non-Dual, the Relative and the Absolute

Saturday, April 6th
9 AM – 12:00 PM

led by Suzanne Colón

This workshop will explore the paradox of human life that is classically known as “The Two Truths.” We’ll share Buddhist teachings and practices that enhance life in terms of both:

  • the “Relative” in which we navigate, heal and soothe the self and be of service to others
  • and the “Absolute” or Non Dual, in which we transcend the self and experience the relative self and world as an interplay of divine energy.

The goal of Buddhist practice is to give us the capacity to dance with freedom and grace in both realms, which brings the greatest joy: ease-ful abiding.

Apr
9
Tue
2024
BIC Drop-In Guided Sit: Kindhearted Awareness Zoom Meeting
Apr 9 @ 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.
Apr
11
Thu
2024
Dependent Origination Class
Apr 11 @ 7:00 pm – 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 five 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.

Apr
16
Tue
2024
BIC Drop-In Guided Sit: Kindhearted Awareness Zoom Meeting
Apr 16 @ 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.
Apr
18
Thu
2024
Dependent Origination Class
Apr 18 @ 7:00 pm – 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 five 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.

Apr
23
Tue
2024
BIC Drop-In Guided Sit: Kindhearted Awareness Zoom Meeting
Apr 23 @ 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.
Apr
25
Thu
2024
Dependent Origination Class
Apr 25 @ 7:00 pm – 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 five 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.

Apr
30
Tue
2024
BIC Drop-In Guided Sit: Kindhearted Awareness Zoom Meeting
Apr 30 @ 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.
May
2
Thu
2024
Dependent Origination Class
May 2 @ 7:00 pm – 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 five 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.

May
7
Tue
2024
BIC Drop-In Guided Sit: Kindhearted Awareness Zoom Meeting
May 7 @ 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.
May
9
Thu
2024
Insight Community
May 9 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Weekly Meeting of the 

Bozeman Insight Community

Thursdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm

Thursday night meetings have both in-person and remote attendance options
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 short teaching to introduce the practice and provide some instruction. Then there is a lightly-guided 30-minute meditation, followed by tea, Q&A, and discussion. We open and close the evening with short chants, which are provided and completely optional.

All are warmly welcome to drop in and join us. No prior experience necessary. If you’d like to talk to one of the leaders prior to attending for the first time, please email us and we’ll connect. We look forward to meeting you and welcoming you to our sangha.

When in person, service dogs, lap babies and school-age children are welcome. There are places in the room and nearby where kids can hang out or do homework. Parents can relax about any disturbance this may cause – our community is not fussy about meditation rooms being super silent (ambient noise is a chance to practice with the conditions and cultivate equanimity). We’d rather have you with us than strive for “perfect” conditions (which don’t exist).

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BIC Leadership

Sangha Leader – Suzanne Colón
Council Member – Rose Toth
Council Member – Mary Corelli
Council Member – Sarah Beirut

For leader and council member 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.

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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!

May
14
Tue
2024
BIC Drop-In Guided Sit: Kindhearted Awareness Zoom Meeting
May 14 @ 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.
May
15
Wed
2024
The Essence of the Practice
May 15 @ 7:15 pm – 8:45 pm

The Essence of the Practice

Wednesday, May 15
7:15-8:45

with Anushka Fernandopulle

This is a wonderful opportunity to learn from Anushka Fernandopulle, a guiding teacher at Spirit Rock and IMS, who’s featured on many apps and mindfulness pods. Anushka will offer an orientation to the path of Insight meditation, clear instruction and essential tips.

About Anushka

Anushka has trained Buddhist meditation for over 30 years, primarily Vipassana or Insight Meditation (the source of secular Mindfulness).  After studying Buddhism at Harvard, she spent four years in full-time meditation training in the US, India and Sri Lanka. She was invited to teach Dharma in 1998 and later went through a four year meditation teacher training program with Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg and other leading Western Buddhist meditation teachers. In 2011, she joined the Teacher’s Council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.  Her work has been featured in publications like Tricycle, Lion’s Roar, Turning Wheel, Inquiring Mind, as well as on her Huffington Post blog about dharma and politics.

May
16
Thu
2024
BIC Special Guest: Anushka Fernandopulle
May 16 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Bozeman Insight Guest: Anushka Fernandopulle

Thursday, May 16
7-8:30 PM

 

Help us welcome our visiting teacher, Anushka Fernandopulle, in this evening with the Bozeman Insight Community. Through Q&A, Anushka will tell stories of her highs and lows on her dharma journey. These informal, conversational evenings are entertaining and inspiring and help us get to know the teacher. Everyone welcome!

May
17
Fri
2024
Mindfulness for LGBTQI+ Community
May 17 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Mindfulness for the LGBTQI+ Community

Friday, May 17
7-8:30 PM

with Anushka Fernandopulle

This evening is for queer meditators or wanna-learn meditators of all stripes and rainbow colors. Anushka will offer an evening of Mindfulness instruction, practice and Q&A just for LGBTQI+ people. Come meet other mindful folks and let’s see if there’s interest in launching a Queer sangha at the Dharma Center.

About Anushka

Anushka has trained Buddhist meditation for over 30 years, primarily Vipassana or Insight Meditation (the source of secular Mindfulness).  After studying Buddhism at Harvard, she spent four years in full-time meditation training in the US, India and Sri Lanka. She was invited to teach Dharma in 1998 and later went through a four year meditation teacher training program with Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg and other leading Western Buddhist meditation teachers. In 2011, she joined the Teacher’s Council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.  Her work has been featured in publications like Tricycle, Lion’s Roar, Turning Wheel, Inquiring Mind, as well as on her Huffington Post blog about dharma and politics.

May
18
Sat
2024
Mindfulness in Nature
May 18 @ 9:30 am – 4:30 pm

Mindfulness in Nature

Saturday, May 18
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Triple Tree Ranch Community Space

with Anushka Fernandopulle

Anushka will teach the art of savoring nature’s beauty with mindfulness. There will be a long lunch break for hiking and being out on the Triple Tree trails.
More details and registration opening soon…

About Anushka

Anushka has trained Buddhist meditation for over 30 years, primarily Vipassana or Insight Meditation (the source of secular Mindfulness).  After studying Buddhism at Harvard, she spent four years in full-time meditation training in the US, India and Sri Lanka. She was invited to teach Dharma in 1998 and later went through a four year meditation teacher training program with Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg and other leading Western Buddhist meditation teachers. In 2011, she joined the Teacher’s Council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center.  Her work has been featured in publications like Tricycle, Lion’s Roar, Turning Wheel, Inquiring Mind, as well as on her Huffington Post blog about dharma and politics.

May
21
Tue
2024
BIC Drop-In Guided Sit: Kindhearted Awareness Zoom Meeting
May 21 @ 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.
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May
23
Thu
2024
Insight Community
May 23 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Weekly Meeting of the 

Bozeman Insight Community

Thursdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm

Thursday night meetings have both in-person and remote attendance options
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 short teaching to introduce the practice and provide some instruction. Then there is a lightly-guided 30-minute meditation, followed by tea, Q&A, and discussion. We open and close the evening with short chants, which are provided and completely optional.

All are warmly welcome to drop in and join us. No prior experience necessary. If you’d like to talk to one of the leaders prior to attending for the first time, please email us and we’ll connect. We look forward to meeting you and welcoming you to our sangha.

When in person, service dogs, lap babies and school-age children are welcome. There are places in the room and nearby where kids can hang out or do homework. Parents can relax about any disturbance this may cause – our community is not fussy about meditation rooms being super silent (ambient noise is a chance to practice with the conditions and cultivate equanimity). We’d rather have you with us than strive for “perfect” conditions (which don’t exist).

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BIC Leadership

Sangha Leader – Suzanne Colón
Council Member – Rose Toth
Council Member – Mary Corelli
Council Member – Sarah Beirut

For leader and council member 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.

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