Radiate Lovingkindness This Mettā May
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Class Series | Online | Dharma Institute
April 11 - May 16, 2024 | 6 Thursdays | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
7.5 CE Credits. When the stressors and traumas of our life build up and take their toll on our psyche, it is a natural response to turn inwards to find rejuvenation and healing in the Dharma. This is the time to draw from the deep well of the brahmavihāras of lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. As we learn to nurture ourselves with lovingkindness, these life-transforming practices can heal and open our heart, soothe our anxious mind, and calm our inner critic.
Pawan Bareja
Drop-in | Online
Wednesday, May 8 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Our Wednesday Morning Meditation & Talk is led by Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg, Heidi Bourne, or other guest teachers. This group welcomes beginners and experienced practitioners to explore the Dharma.
Heidi Bourne
Drop-in | Online
Wednesday, May 8 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Open to all self-identified LGBTQIA+.
Our Rainbow Saṅgha is a weekly gathering of self-identified practitioners within marginalized gender and sexuality groups such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, two-spirit, and gender non-conforming.
Rion Pendergrass
Drop-in | Online
Thursday, May 9 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Open to all self-identified Women.
This drop-in group offers self-identified women a place to come together in community to share our wisdom and strengthen our sense of belonging in the world. Beginners and experienced meditators are welcome.
Grace Fisher
Drop-in | Online
Friday, May 10 | 7:15 PM - 9:15 PM
Open to all in recovery.
Our Dharma & Recovery group explores the intersection of recovery with Buddhist teachings and practices. We welcome all people who identify with any of the full range of addictions, from substances to behaviors, as well as habitual thought and emotional patterns. Beginners and experienced meditators are welcome.
Walt Opie
Retreat | On-Land
May 11 - May 16, 2024 | Saturday - Thursday | 5 nights
8 CE Credits. The Buddha suggested that we have underestimated the capacity of our heart. Retreat helps us to remember. In mindfulness meditation, we practice resting, looking deeply, and knowing moment by moment what it's like to be human. The more deeply we look, the more reason we have to love. Together, we'll sit in the refuge provided by a 2,600-year legacy of wisdom and kindness. In silence, we come to know the preciousness of our life and the poignancy of the human condition.
Retreat | Online
Saturday, May 11 | 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
We all want love. Throughout this retreat, we will explore together how love can be when it is expressed in conjunction with the qualities of the Four Divine States of Equanimity, Kindness, Compassion, and Inclusive Joy. This daylong retreat includes short readings from bell hooks, who puts forward fierce feminist social criticism that invites us to transform our challenges into strength in order to manifest the love and caring we want in our lives.
Rev. Liên Shutt
Drop-in | Online
Sunday, May 12 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Open to all self-identified BIPOC.
The Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Saṅgha is a weekly gathering of self-identified BIPOC practitioners that provides a safe place to meditate and explore the Dharma in light of our experiences. Beginners and experienced meditators are welcome.
Pawan Bareja
Retreat | Online
Sunday, May 12 | 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Open to all self-identified Women. Join us on Mother’s Day to celebrate the archetypal Buddhist feminine, with a focus on Prajna Paramita, Green Tara, and others. By aligning ourselves with aspects of different sacred archetypes, we'll explore how they can live in our body and offer a sense of equanimity and inspiration. This day is not only for mothers, but for all who identify as women and want to sit in the sacred space of embodying our heart’s deepest expression of the divine feminine.
Grace Fisher
Drop-in | Online | Hybrid
Monday, May 13 | 7:15 PM - 9:15 PM
For over 35 years, the Monday Night sitting group at Spirit Rock has been a welcoming refuge to gather, hear the teachings of the Buddha, and practice Insight Meditation together as a community. The program includes a 30-40 min guided meditation, a short break, and a Dharma talk.
Mark Coleman
Drop-in | On-Land | Hybrid
Monday, May 13 | 7:15 PM - 9:15 PM
For over 35 years, the Monday Night sitting group at Spirit Rock has been a welcoming refuge to gather, hear the teachings of the Buddha, and practice Insight Meditation together as a community. The program includes a 30-40 min guided meditation, a short break, and a Dharma talk.
Mark Coleman
Class Series | Online
May 15 - May 29, 2024 | 3 Wednesdays | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Join us for a conversation in three parts between Venerable Dhammanandā Bhikkhunī and Ayya Santacittā Bhikkhunī, who met for the first time in Thailand in the mid 1990s. Since then they have both been ordained as bhikkhunīs —Venerable Dhammananda in Sri Lanka in 2003 and Ayya Santacitta at Spirit Rock in 2011. Ven. Dhammanandā is the senior Bhikkhunī in Thailand, and joins us online from her monastery outside of Bangkok.
Drop-in | Online
Wednesday, May 15 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Our Wednesday Morning Meditation & Talk is led by Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg, Heidi Bourne, or other guest teachers. This group welcomes beginners and experienced practitioners to explore the Dharma.
Donald Rothberg
Drop-in | Online
Wednesday, May 15 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Open to all self-identified LGBTQIA+.
Our Rainbow Saṅgha is a weekly gathering of self-identified practitioners within marginalized gender and sexuality groups such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, two-spirit, and gender non-conforming.
Patrick Brown
Drop-in | Online
Thursday, May 16 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Open to all self-identified Women.
This drop-in group offers self-identified women a place to come together in community to share our wisdom and strengthen our sense of belonging in the world. Beginners and experienced meditators are welcome.
Grace Fisher
Drop-in | Online
Sunday, May 19 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Open to all self-identified BIPOC.
The Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Saṅgha is a weekly gathering of self-identified BIPOC practitioners that provides a safe place to meditate and explore the Dharma in light of our experiences. Beginners and experienced meditators are welcome.
Kate Johnson
Retreat | Online
Sunday, May 19 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Vesak is the Buddhist holiday honoring the birth, awakening, and death of the Buddha. To honor Vesak 2024 (year 2568 in the Buddhist calendar), we will share simple chants from the Forest Saṅgha and Mahāyāna traditions, learn a meditation on the qualities of the Buddha called Buddhānussati, and and celebrate the presence of the Dharma in our lives and in the world. All are welcome.
Sean Oakes
Drop-in | Online
Monday, May 20 | 7:15 PM - 9:15 PM
For over 35 years, the Monday Night sitting group at Spirit Rock has been a welcoming refuge to gather, hear the teachings of the Buddha, and practice Insight Meditation together as a community. The program includes a 30-40 min guided meditation, a short break, and a Dharma talk.
Drop-in | Online
Wednesday, May 22 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Our Wednesday Morning Meditation & Talk is led by Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg, Heidi Bourne, or other guest teachers. This group welcomes beginners and experienced practitioners to explore the Dharma.
Donald Rothberg
Drop-in | Online
Wednesday, May 22 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Open to all self-identified LGBTQIA+.
Our Rainbow Saṅgha is a weekly gathering of self-identified practitioners within marginalized gender and sexuality groups such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, two-spirit, and gender non-conforming.
JD Doyle
Drop-in | Online
Thursday, May 23 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Open to all self-identified Women.
This drop-in group offers self-identified women a place to come together in community to share our wisdom and strengthen our sense of belonging in the world. Beginners and experienced meditators are welcome.
Grace Fisher
Retreat | Online
Saturday, May 25 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
The three poisons—greed, aversion, and delusion—are mind states that cloud the heart and mind. However, by clearly recognizing the three poisons, we can meet them with their antidotes of generosity, mettā, and wisdom. Generosity expands our ability to feel connected and reminds us that we belong to each other. Mettā opens the heart, protecting us from both inner and outer harm, while wisdom allows us to see things right sized as we move through the world.
Leslie Booker
Retreat | On-Land
May 26 - May 30, 2024 | Sunday - Thursday | 4 nights
Our body can be a vehicle for liberation in this life, containing all we need to wake up. Yet we may not know how to relate to the body in the ways that can support this kind of freedom. Throughout this retreat, we will practice connecting to our body with loving awareness while recognizing ourselves as an essential part of nature. Together, we will engage in noble silence as we are nurtured and supported by the land at Spirit Rock.
Drop-in | Online
Sunday, May 26 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Open to all self-identified BIPOC.
The Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Saṅgha is a weekly gathering of self-identified BIPOC practitioners that provides a safe place to meditate and explore the Dharma in light of our experiences. Beginners and experienced meditators are welcome.
Kaira Jewel Lingo
Retreat | On-Land | Hybrid
Sunday, May 26 | 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Come join us as we take a deep dive into the timeless and beautiful teachings of the Bodhisattva, the one who meets suffering with intention, strength, determination, courage, and love. Together, we'll explore ways to skillfully navigate our everyday lives with a steady, receptive mind and a courageous, wise heart. The day includes periods of sitting and walking meditation, as well as Dharma reflections and plenty of time to talk with each other. All are warmly welcome!
Retreat | Online | Hybrid
Sunday, May 26 | 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Come join us as we take a deep dive into the timeless and beautiful teachings of the Bodhisattva, the one who meets suffering with intention, strength, determination, courage, and love. Together, we'll explore ways to skillfully navigate our everyday lives with a steady, receptive mind and a courageous, wise heart. The day includes periods of sitting and walking meditation, as well as Dharma reflections and plenty of time to talk with each other. All are warmly welcome!
Drop-in | Online
Monday, May 27 | 7:15 PM - 9:15 PM
For over 35 years, the Monday Night sitting group at Spirit Rock has been a welcoming refuge to gather, hear the teachings of the Buddha, and practice Insight Meditation together as a community. The program includes a 30-40 min guided meditation, a short break, and a Dharma talk.
Eugene Cash
Drop-in | Online
Wednesday, May 29 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Our Wednesday Morning Meditation & Talk is led by Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg, Heidi Bourne, or other guest teachers. This group welcomes beginners and experienced practitioners to explore the Dharma.
Sylvia Boorstein
Drop-in | Online
Wednesday, May 29 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Open to all self-identified LGBTQIA+.
Our Rainbow Saṅgha is a weekly gathering of self-identified practitioners within marginalized gender and sexuality groups such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, two-spirit, and gender non-conforming.
bruni dávila
Drop-in | Online
Thursday, May 30 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Open to all self-identified Women.
This drop-in group offers self-identified women a place to come together in community to share our wisdom and strengthen our sense of belonging in the world. Beginners and experienced meditators are welcome.
Grace Fisher