Mahayana Study Group
ONLINE - Birmingham 714 37th Street South, Birmingham, AL, UNITED STATESStudy Group dedicated to studying the Mahayana Path. Open and free to all.
Study Group dedicated to studying the Mahayana Path. Open and free to all.
Sunday Community Meditation Online is open for members, friends and anyone interested in mindfulness - no previous meditation experience necessary. Join us via Zoom!
Deepen your meditation practice, and continue along the path of the Shambhala teachings on warriorship, in this weekend retreat.
Sunday Community Meditation Online is open for members, friends and anyone interested in mindfulness - no previous meditation experience necessary. Join us via Zoom!
Planting such a seed as the bodhisattva vow undermines ego and leads to a tremendous expansion of perspective. Such heroism, or bigness of mind, fills all of space completely, utterly, absolutely. Within such a vast perspective, nothing is claustrophobic
This three-session course explores the moment in a person’s life when they decide to go one step further than “being Buddhist”—and make a profound commitment to put all others before themselves.
This three-session course explores the moment of making a profound commitment to put others before yourself. It is open to all who are interested in the vow, or those looking to reconnect with the vow.
Sunday Community Meditation Online is open for members, friends and anyone interested in mindfulness - no previous meditation experience necessary. Join us via Zoom!
Meditation@33rd offers an intimate space in which to practice sitting meditation & to reflect on one's experience of meditation with others. Instruction provided to anyone new to meditation. Join us in person on the 2nd & 4th Saturdays of every month.
The culmination of the 5-Level Heart of Warriorship program, online via Zoom, five Saturday mornings: Nov. 9, 16, 23, 30
Sunday morning meditation practice is open to all, and meditation instruction is available at 10:00 AM. On the second Sunday of each month, we offer group meditation practice for the first hour, and a dharma talk and discussion for the second hour. You ar
This powerful monthly practice at the time of the full moon is open to all. Participation is free of charge!
Study Group dedicated to studying the Mahayana Path. Open and free to all.
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.
Sunday morning meditation practice is open to all, and meditation instruction is available at 10:00 AM. On the second Sunday of each month, we offer group meditation practice for the first hour, and a dharma talk and discussion for the second hour. You ar
Meditation@33rd offers an intimate space in which to practice sitting meditation & to reflect on one's experience of meditation with others. Instruction provided to anyone new to meditation. Join us in person on the 2nd & 4th Saturdays of every month.
This powerful monthly practice at the time of the full moon is open to all. Participation is free of charge!
Deepen your meditation practice, and continue along the path of the Shambhala teachings on warriorship, in this weekend retreat.
We live in difficult times. Many of us long to be present, caring, and feel more alive in a world that can be overwhelming and full of disruption. Creating a mindful awareness practice can help.
About the Course This course is part of a five-course-series that provides a thorough exploration of the Hinayana path drawing on teachings from prominent teachers and classic sources. The emphasis […]
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.
A Year of Deepening in Compassion: Part one of a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
A Year of Deepening in Compassion: Part two of a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
A Year of Deepening in Compassion: Part three of a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
A Year of Deepening in Compassion: Part four of a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
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.
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.
This recorded course provides instructions and practices to work with death and dying as they manifest throughout our lives.
This course provides introductory tools and teachings for working with meditation in everyday life.
Discover or rediscover your connection to meditation—and to yourself. This course is a powerful way to reconnect with our minds and hearts, and to open up to ourselves and our experience in a way that is more connected, caring, and kind.
Emphasizing core Buddhist teachings and the natural world, this course helps reveal the magic and wonder of the world.
This six-session recorded course explores our relationships with others, an aspiration to help our world, and specific aspects of social transformation.
In 1992 and 1999, Dr. Robin Kornman held intensive retreats at Karmê Chöling which explored the Shambhala practices and teachings related to the Epic of Gesar. This course is drawn from six of the talks in those retreats.
This course features nearly 5 hours of video footage of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's teachings in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1987.
If you think of mindful eating as chewing on a single raisin for hours on end, think again. Food can be an expression of human dignity and enlightened society.
This Course Introduces the Buddha's core teaching of The Four Noble Truths.
Donations are welcome! Buddhism has a long history of engaging the topic of gender and sexuality in ways that were innovative and inclusive for their times and also androcentric (male […]
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.
This pre-recorded course explores the Sadhana of Mahamudra "as if for the first time."
Over the course of five recorded classes of study and practice, Suzann Duquette leads a deep exploration of the Sadhana of Mahamudra.
Contentment can be hard to find. With meditation and contemplation practice, we can relax with ourselves as we are and appreciate simple human experience.
At the end of the year and in times of difficulty, Vajrakilaya practice connects us with wrathful compassion in order to overcome obstacles and döns. Join us for recorded talks by Eve Rosenthal and guided Vajrakilaya practice.
Cycle of the Black Ashe is a series of talks by Robin Kornman on the Terma cycle by the Vidyadhara, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. This course is built around seven talks that are open to Warrior Assembly grads. One talk is restricted to SS practitioners.
This program is based on the book, Right Use of Power: The Heart of Ethics—A Guide and Resource for Professional Relationships, and training program in engaged ethics that teaches four aspects of the ethical use of power.
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.
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.
About the Course This course is part of a five-course-series that provides a thorough exploration of the Hinayana path drawing on teachings from prominent teachers and classic sources. The emphasis […]
This course considers how, if at all, psychedelics are compatible with Buddhist practice.
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.
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.
This course explores Yeshe Tsogyal as a female exemplar, enlightened teacher, and fierce protector for all dharma practitioners.
Join Dr. Julia Sagebien exploring Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s teachings on Vajra Politics.
A course on embodied and trauma informed meditation instruction, belonging, and related topics. For Shambhala Guides and Meditation Instructors for both initial training and continuing education.
Full series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
This is a five-course-series that provides a thorough exploration of the Hinayana path drawing on teachings from prominent teachers and classic sources.
A Year of Deepening in Compassion is a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.