This introductory mindfulness course teaches simple techniques to calm the mind, reduce stress, and build awareness, helping you cultivate clarity, balance, and well-being in everyday life—no prior experience needed.
This course helps participants understand the mind, release destructive thought and behavior patterns, build healthy self-confidence, and cultivate deep compassion and meaningful connection with others through gradual awareness and practice.
Dharma events offered by other organizations and shared with the Buddhist community.
Candrakirti takes conventional truth seriously—why? What is conventional truth in the context of emptiness? As it connects with Buddhist ethics? These positions lead to a constructive understanding of the Madhyamaka worldview and of their implications for contemporary practice.
If you’d like to learn ways to change your postural habits and release chronic muscular contractions that may be contributing to your discomfort, join Lisa Sack, for an exploration of gentle movements to free your spine, facilitate range of motion, and create more ease when you sit.
We are deeply honored to welcome H.E. Khensur Jhado Tulku Rinpoche for his first in-person visit to Shantideva Center, for a teaching on the Buddha's experience of enlightenment: profound, peaceful, elaboration-free, clear light, and non-composite.
In learning to distinguish clearly between unhappy states of mind, such as anger, depression, and low self-esteem, and the upbeat states of mind, such as love, compassion, and confidence, that are actually at the core of our being, we are able to recognize and re-discover our profound innate potential.
A year-end Green Tara practice helps dissolve fear, clear old negativities and open the heart. Guided by Venerable Amy Miller, participants can begin the new year grounded, inspired and ready to meet life with wisdom and courage.
What is Buddha nature, and what are the afflictions that obscure its manifestation? This sounds like a simple question, but there are a set of common obstacles that prevent us from fully understanding and accepting this important idea.
Samsara, or the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, is inherently challenging due to the constant dissatisfaction we experience. Geshe Tenzin Zopa will focus on a very concise set of instructions that are well suited to integrating mind training into the our every-day life.
