Buddhist Studies

Eight Week Series

Monday Nights 6/10 - 7/29

Eight Weeks Beginning July 11th

Cosponsored by The Nalanda Institute

Friday, July 12, 7-9 PM
Saturday, July 13, 10 AM-5 PM

Designed for beginners as well as more practiced students!

The Dharma of Difference: Awakening in Diverse Community

So, here we are.  Sharing this world, this city, this contemplative community.  With people we know and people we don't know.  People we like, people we don't like -- and people we don't even notice.  People we share backgrounds and interests with.  People with whom we have almost nothing in common.  All of us.  Together.

The Heat is On: Making Friends with ANGER

Anger is the most compelling and therefore the most challenging of all human emotions. When under the fiery influence of anger, we’re more likely to act hastily and engage in speech and behaviors that cause harm to ourselves and others. Yet in the heat of the moment it’s so easy to be reactive and allow this poisonous mind state to dictate how we think, feel, and behave.  By making friends with anger we can be less likely to suffer or cause suffering to others whenever it comes to visit.

Join Kimberly Brown and Lawrence Do’an Grecco as they reveal the ways in which we can learn to harness the powerful energy of anger. By training ourselves to recognize anger in all of its forms we can be empowered to work with anger so that it doesn’t work us. 

"Enlightenment is an accident.  Meditation makes you accident prone."
-- Baker Roshi

Join Shastri Ethan Nichtern for a six-week course that introduces the Tantric Path and practices. The course will cover the view of Vajrayana in relationship to the meditation practices we are each working with, the Ethics of knowing what to do in everyday life situation, and a way to work directly with emotions.