Bozeman Insight Community
2025-10-23 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-10-30 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-11-06 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-11-13 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-12-04 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-12-11 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-12-18 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-01-08 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Denver) and 4 more dates | Hybrid Meeting
Thursdays, 6:30 – 8:00 pm
In person and via Zoom
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).
BIC Leadership
Council Member – Sandy Kindt
Council Member – Megan Higgs
Council Member – Marilyn Raffensperger
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.

Kindhearted Awareness Meditation
2025-10-28 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-11-04 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-11-11 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-11-18 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-11-25 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-12-02 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-12-09 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-12-16 10:30 - 11:30 and 8 more dates | Online Offering
BIC Drop-In Meditation
Meeting Our Lives with Kindhearted Awareness
Tuesdays
10:30 – 11:30 AM
Led by Suzanne Colón

via Zoom

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.

BIC Guest: Dave Smith
2025-11-20 18:30 - 20:00 | 3810 Valley Commons Dr, #6
The Metaphor of Fire
BIC Guest: Dave Smith
Thursday
November 20
6:30 – 8 PM
Online
In early Buddhist thought- greed, hatred, and confusion are expressed as the three fires. These fires symbolize the process of craving, clinging, and fueling which encompasses the entirety of the second noble truth. Greed and hatred may appear obvious, but confusion, also translated as delusion and ignorance (moha) is much more complex, sneaky, and vastly misunderstood in consequence and translation. Often taught as the root causes of suffering it misses the bigger message of the Dharma. The metaphor of fire does not simply indicate that which causes suffering, but rather that which entraps us, enslaves the mind, keeping us bound-up in self-deception and self destruction. During this event Dave will discuss the important and often misrepresented message of these early ideas within the early Buddhist teachings.
To learn more about Dave Smith, visit his webpage here.

Mahasangha 1/2 Day
2025-12-13 09:00 - 12:00 | 3810 Valley Commons Dr, #6
Mahasangha Half-Day Sit
Saturday, December 13
9-Noon
Join leaders and members of all sanghas who meet at the BDC in this mahasangha half-day retreat! Group leaders will offer practices from our various lineages including meditation, chanting, bowing, and readings.
