• Weekly Compassion Practice Group (Tonglen)

    Tonglen (Compassion Meditation) Group
    Zoom Event

    Weekly Compassion Practice: The practice of sending and taking through the medium of the breath (tonglen) provides an opportunity to cultivate compassion by transforming our own and the world’s suffering into openness, care and healing for others. We begin the session with a brief meta practice (cultivating loving-kindness) and soon transition into the tonglen practice […]

  • BCD Engaged Buddhist Book Club

    BCD Engaged Buddhist Book Club
    Zoom Event

    This weekly book club is hosted by Kat Symington Muendell.  Each week, members will discuss a book or article related to engaged Buddhism. Email Kat at bcdbookclub@gmail.com for the weekly reading assignment and Zoom link and to get on the Book Club mailing list.  

  • BCD Live Interview: New Horizons in Engaged Buddhism: Host Julia Sagbien interviews Tara Brach

    Zoom Event

    In this seventh live interview in the New Horizons in Engaged Buddhism series, host Julia Sagbien will interview renowned Insight Meditaiton teacher Tara Brach. Tara is a spiritual teacher, psychologist and author of the internationally bestselling books Radical Acceptance, Radical Compassion and Trusting the Gold. She blends Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindful attention […]

  • Weekly Compassion Practice Group (Tonglen)

    Tonglen (Compassion Meditation) Group
    Zoom Event

    Weekly Compassion Practice: The practice of sending and taking through the medium of the breath (tonglen) provides an opportunity to cultivate compassion by transforming our own and the world’s suffering into openness, care and healing for others. We begin the session with a brief meta practice (cultivating loving-kindness) and soon transition into the tonglen practice […]

  • BCD Engaged Buddhist Book Club

    BCD Engaged Buddhist Book Club
    Zoom Event

    This weekly book club is hosted by Kat Symington Muendell.  Each week, members will discuss a book or article related to engaged Buddhism. Email Kat at bcdbookclub@gmail.com for the weekly reading assignment and Zoom link and to get on the Book Club mailing list.  

  • BCD Poetry as Witness: A Contemplative Circle of Nature and Word (Recurring Monthly Group)

    Zoom Event

    Poetry as Witness is a monthly online contemplative circle of Nature & Word designed as a space for literary expression, mindful witnessing, and relational reflection. The circle is facilitated by Lorena Saavedra-Smith, BCD member, poet, pacha philosopher, and ecopsychologist. Originally from Perú, Lorena is a lifelong storyteller and keeper of Andean ancestral wisdom. This circle […]

  • Weekly Compassion Practice Group (Tonglen)

    Tonglen (Compassion Meditation) Group
    Zoom Event

    Weekly Compassion Practice: The practice of sending and taking through the medium of the breath (tonglen) provides an opportunity to cultivate compassion by transforming our own and the world’s suffering into openness, care and healing for others. We begin the session with a brief meta practice (cultivating loving-kindness) and soon transition into the tonglen practice […]

  • BCD Engaged Buddhist Book Club

    BCD Engaged Buddhist Book Club
    Zoom Event

    This weekly book club is hosted by Kat Symington Muendell.  Each week, members will discuss a book or article related to engaged Buddhism. Email Kat at bcdbookclub@gmail.com for the weekly reading assignment and Zoom link and to get on the Book Club mailing list.  

  • BCD Women in Solidarity Group

    BCD Women in Solidarity Group
    Zoom Event

    This is a group for women to express and discuss their own lived experience within the safety of a women's-only space. The group's focus is on matters relevant to engaged Buddhism. Topics may include patriarchy within Buddhist groups, activist groups, and society at large. Depending on the interests of the members, the group may discuss […]

  • Weekly Compassion Practice Group (Tonglen)

    Tonglen (Compassion Meditation) Group
    Zoom Event

    Weekly Compassion Practice: The practice of sending and taking through the medium of the breath (tonglen) provides an opportunity to cultivate compassion by transforming our own and the world’s suffering into openness, care and healing for others. We begin the session with a brief meta practice (cultivating loving-kindness) and soon transition into the tonglen practice […]