Social Sangha Supper

Friday
August 28
6-7 PM

In Person

Meet fellow practitioners, eat a nutritious meal, and support a worthy cause all in one go! On the last Friday of each month, we’ll meet at Fork & Spoon to have dinner together.

Please let us know you’re coming. It gets busy and we’ll need to reserve a table so we can all sit together!

General price for meal is $12.50, but you can pay what you can and also can pay it forward.

Newcomer
Orientation

Tuesday
September 1
5-6 PM

In Person

We know it can be hard to walk in the door! On the first Tuesday of every month, we host a one-hour orientation for those new to the BDC, or wanting to learn more about our offerings. Free, no registration required. Please come, and tell your meditation-curious friends!

Interweaving Metta & Vipassana

with Dave & Shannon Smith

Sept 4-8

In Person

Bozeman Dharma Center in collaboration with Bozeman Insight Community with be hosting our second residential retreat at Camp Mimanagish 

During this silent retreat, we will develop practices that unite the heart and the mind. By combining the Four Foundations of Mindfulness with the practice of Metta, we learn to balance moment-to-moment awareness with the qualities of kindness, care, joy, and equanimity. As your body and mind start to settle, a natural, intuitive wisdom begins to emerge—a process that helps shift your energy toward a sense of wholesome intention and genuine contentment.

Intro to Meditation

Saturday, Sept 12

Hybrid

If you’re interested in starting a meditation practice and aren’t sure how to start, this class is for you! We’ll discuss and practice different styles of meditation including practicing with the breath, body scans, working with a question, Metta practice and Tonglen. You’ll leave with an understanding of meditation fundamentals such as different postures that work well, how to work with attention, and ways to support your meditation practice.

Dharma Book Club

Tuesday
September 29
5-6 PM

In Person

Dharma book club has moved to a new day, time and schedule! We now meet every other month on the last Tuesday at 5PM which makes our next meeting September 29. We’ll read Stephen Batchelor’s Buddhism Without Beliefs. We’ll also pick future selections at this meeting. This is an informal book club with no set agenda. The goal is to encourage each other to read Dharma books and have some discussion about how the concepts apply to our personal practice.

The Happiness that Endures

with Elaine Huang

Oct 9-10

Hybrid

Explore the distinction between relative human happiness, which naturally fluctuates with mood and circumstance, and the deeper happiness that endures beneath our changing conditions.

Through guided meditation, contemplative inquiry, and embodied practices, we’ll investigate ways of recognizing true nature and the gradual transformation that allows this enduring well-being to be lived more often in everyday life.

Opening talk on Friday, October 9 from 6:30-8 PM followed by a daylong retreat on Saturday, October 10 from 9:30 AM – 5 PM.

Releasing the Knot of the Mind

with Anam Thubten

Nov 13-15

In Person

The Nyingma teachings of Tibetan Buddhism offer profound methods for experiencing the self liberation of mind in the realm of now. This retreat willl draw on teachings from Anam Thubten’s new book, Releasing the Knot of the Mind: Instructions on Resting in Stillness and Awareness, available from Shambhala Publications.