Event: Resolutions & Intentions

Half-Day Retreat, Insight

Join Suzanne Colón for a workshop on New Year’s Resolutions, Intentions, and New Beginnings on Saturday, January 6 from 9AM – 1PM.

This workshop will include guided meditations, journal exercises and a meditative inquiry from Tara Brach’s book Radical Compassion. The day will be held in companionable silence to allow us to each stay tucked into our own experience. Please bring a journal. 

Designed for all levels of meditation experience and all persons, identities, sizes, genders, ages, races and abilities are very welcome. 

Event: January SoundGate 1.5.23

Non-denominational, SoundGate

Annika Sophia Grace, Jessie Solon and Marius Michael-George will be our guests again for the January SoundGate meditation to share bells, bowls, gong, monochord, drums and vocalizations of healing mantras. All donations will be split between the BDC and the guest artists. Suggested donation between $10-$45. All are welcome regardless of funds. No registration necessary.

Event: Winter Solstice

Non-denominational

Come share candlelight, poetry, and sacred practice to welcome back the sun on Thursday, December 21! Tibetan bells offered by Brian Sparks. No registration required. This event is in-person only. Nourish yourself spiritually and physically with refreshments provided by the Bozeman Insight Community!

Freely offered, donations gratefully accepted.

Annual Appeal

From the Board

Thank you so much to the 53 people who have donated to our annual appeal so far! We have an ambitious goal of $20,000 and at $10,718, we are a little over half of the way there. Sixteen of you donated during Giving Tuesday, taking full advantage of the $2000 board match! We so appreciate all of you who support us financially and those who also give their time and efforts to keep us running. We wouldn’t be here without you!

Event: SoundGate

Programs

Our SoundGate meditations have moved to the first Fridays of each month at 6:30 PM. We’re excited to welcome local world music group, Yamama! on December 1. We hope you enjoy this meditative soundscape with drums, percussion and vocals.

Freely offered, donations gratefully accepted. Any funds collected will be split between the BDC and the visiting artists.

In person only. No registration necessary.

Dharma Thought: Nurturing Gratitude

Dharma Thoughts

This Dharma Thought on Nurturing Gratitude is from an August newsletter written by Steve Allison-Bunnell of the Joining Rivers Sangha which meets Mondays at 7pm

[One] Friday night [in August], our car suddenly needed a new alternator and battery, and I was supposed to drive to Missoula in the morning. A recipe for suffering, or dissatisfaction with the world as it was, if there ever was one. But I was rescued at the auto parts store, where not only were the parts in stock, but they also called a friend who ran a mobile repair service. Barely an hour later I was headed home, our old Subaru purring along. Thich Nhat Hahn taught, “If you aren’t experiencing gratitude, you are suffering.” Indeed, thanks to the practice, that hour was filled with gratitude instead of anxiety. Through the Eyes of Interbeing, I experienced the auto parts store as a sangha: a DIY community of people helping each other keep their cars running. I was delighted to partake in its casual, mundane generosity. Where do you find Sangha in unlikely places? How do you nurture gratitude when it’s easy to suffer?

Silhouette of a man with hands raised in the sunset concept for gratitude

Holiday Schedule Changes

Non-denominational, Schedule Update

Please note these holiday schedule changes for the week of November 20th. The Tergar Bozeman Joy of Living Practice Group will not meet on Wednesday, November 22nd. The BDC will be closed on Thursday, November 23. There will not be a noon sit or meeting of the Bozeman Insight Community that day. May you all be well and find ease in your circumstances.