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Buddhism
Understanding Vajrayana: An Exploration of the Vajrayana Path and Culture
Join an exploration of the profound path of Vajrayana that is open to all! This course is ideal for those who are longing to learn more about, inquire into, or refresh their connection to, the Vajrayana path.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Opening Our Heart to Mahamudra
Mahamudra is a journey of glimpses. Meditation practice is the first step and ground for tuning into the nature of our mind, but the leap comes when we open our heart to ourselves and our world in everyday life.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
The Dharma Seal and The Three Doors to Liberation: A Mini-Retreat
During this mini-retreat, we will study and contemplate the Buddha’s Sutra on The Dharma Seal and The Three Doors to Liberation. According to the Buddha, these three doors are passageways that lead to freedom from suffering.
No Prerequisites
Recorded Courses
Advanced Study
2024 Continuing Education for Meditation Instructors: Weekend One OE
This series of three weekends is for meditation practitioners who are interested in developing as Meditation Instructors (MIs). The instructions and practices support MIs in cultivating skills to assist others.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
A Year of Deepening in Compassion - Part I: The Four Limitless Ones
A Year of Deepening in Compassion: Part one of a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
A Year of Deepening in Compassion - Part II: The Joyful Snow Lion and The Paramitas
A Year of Deepening in Compassion: Part two of a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
A Year of Deepening in Compassion - Part III: Fearless Garuda - Emptiness and Absolute Bodhicitta
A Year of Deepening in Compassion: Part three of a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
A Year of Deepening in Compassion - Part IV: Lojong and Compassionate Engagement
A Year of Deepening in Compassion: Part four of a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche: The Tibetan Buddhist Path - Part I
Profound, potent, and intimate, this course includes videos of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche teaching that provide a rare glimpse of the early days of Buddhism in the West. The Tibetan Buddhist Path was the first seminar given by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche: The Tibetan Buddhist Path - Part II (OE)
Profound, potent, and intimate, this course includes videos of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche teaching that provide a rare glimpse of the early days of Buddhism in the West. The Tibetan Buddhist Path was the first seminar given by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Earth, Water, Fire and All the Elements: Reading the Sadhana of Mahamudra as if for the First Time
This pre-recorded course explores the Sadhana of Mahamudra "as if for the first time."
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Finding Freedom: The Core Teachings of the Buddha
This is a five-course-series that provides a thorough exploration of the Hinayana path drawing on teachings from prominent teachers and classic sources.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Finding Freedom: The Core Teachings of the Buddha, Course I - The First Noble Truth: Meeting Suffering with Maitri
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Finding Freedom: The Core Teachings of the Buddha, Course II - The Second Noble Truth: The Origin of Suffering, Part I - The Five Skandas
Having recognized the truth of suffering and the confusion that is pervasive in our life, we naturally have questions. In this in-depth exploration of the Five Skandhas, we will touch these layers or constellations of experience one by one.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Finding Freedom: The Core Teachings of the Buddha, Course III - The Second Noble Truth: The Origin of Suffering, Part II - The Wheel of Life, Karma, and the Twelve Nidanas
The foundational teachings of the Buddha indicate that the suffering we experience in our lives can come to cessation if we recognize, deeply and profoundly, how that suffering has arisen. This requires gentle bravery and deep contemplation.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Finding Freedom: The Core Teachings of the Buddha, Course IV - The Third Noble Truth: Freedom From Suffering
Contemplating the cessation of suffering, we first see the accessibility of the third noble truth as the gap. We are basically good. Realizing this to be true is that simple, and we are glimpsing this all the time.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Finding Freedom: The Core Teachings of the Buddha, Course V - The Fourth Noble Truth: The Path of Shila, Samadhi, and Prajna
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Groundless Courage: Teaching on Death, Dying and the Bardo
This recorded course provides instructions and practices to work with death and dying as they manifest throughout our lives.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Meditation: The Way of the Buddha
Learn or refresh your connection to the practice of meditation as taught by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, based on archival talks in the summer of 1974 to an audience of new students.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Melting the Ice and Getting Unstuck: Talks On The 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva
Five recorded sessions based on this text, which provides clear insight and points to the skillful means to work with difficult circumstances while being of benefit to others.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Sadhana of Mahamudra: A Practice For This Dark Age
Over the course of five recorded classes of study and practice, Suzann Duquette leads a deep exploration of the Sadhana of Mahamudra.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
The Development of Peace: An Introduction to the Basic Teachings of the Buddha
This Course Introduces the Buddha's core teaching of The Four Noble Truths.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Three Yanas of the Great Eastern Sun
A self-study course based on a weekend retreat with John Rockwell. The view of this course is to understand how all three yanas of the Buddhist journey can join together.
No Prerequisites
Advanced Study
Vivid Awareness With the Late Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
These teachings, with Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, offer powerful guidance on how to work with strong emotions in overwhelming circumstances through the Buddhist meditation practices of Mahamudra and Dzogchen.
Prerequisites apply
Buddhism
Waking Up in Free-Fall: Bringing the Buddhist Practices of a Bodhisattva to the Bardos of Everyday Life
In this course we will explore how the Buddhist teachings on the bardo can be a guide to keeping our hearts open when life seems to fall apart.
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
White Tara: A Soothing Practice for Difficult Times
This five-week course introduces the short daily practice of White Tara, one of the most famous bodhisattvas of compassion in Tibetan Buddhism. The reading transmission (lung) is included in the course
No Prerequisites
Buddhism
Yeshe Tsogyal and the Feminine Principle (OE)
This course explores Yeshe Tsogyal as a female exemplar, enlightened teacher, and fierce protector for all dharma practitioners.
No Prerequisites
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