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Residential: April 2-7, 2024
Dispelling Delusion: Exploring the Vipallāsas Through Early Buddhist Poetry
Join Ayya Santussika in exploring poems of the early Buddhist mendicants as a method of dispelling the four vipallāsas, distortions that cause most of our misapprehensions of reality, as a path toward awakening.
Online: April 4, 2024 (6:00-7:30 pm ET)
“Meditation Sickness”: Classical & Modern Approaches to Adverse Effects
10% of practitioners encounter “meditation sickness.” Join Pierce Salguero in exploring how to identify and classify these ailments, avoid them, and treat them if they arise. This is a freely offered, "pay what you can" program.
Becoming A New Saint
Lama Rod and BCBS Director of Studies William Edelglass share a conversation exploring his personal story, spiritual teachings, and instructions for contemplative and somatic practices that reinforce the truth of our interdependency—allowing us to be of service to the collective well-being, and to call on the support and strength of the countless beings who share our struggles and hope.
Insight Journal
Deep respect and an appreciation of the profundity and transformative significance of the Buddhist tradition, critical examination, and comparative perspective each find expression in the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies’ Insight Journal, published since 1994. Explore and experience key insights of Buddhist inquiry in this freely offered, online resource. Browse all articles by author or volume.