Seattle Classes

Wednesdays: A Complete Overview of Dharma Practice
  • Covers the basic Buddhist teachings sequentially over the course of a year
  • Breathing meditation, contemplative meditation, Dharma talks and small group discussion
  • For those who consider themselves Buddhist and for those who do not
  • Bodhiheart's foundation program and the heart of our community
  • We recommend that, at a minimum, all students attend this one-year series at least once; better, twice!
Thursdays: Mindfulness Meditation - Instructions and in-class meditation
  • 1 hr sittings, Dharma talks, meditation instruction and guidance
  • A restorative experience for practitioners with high stress lives
  • Training in calm abiding and special insight focusing on the breath and mindfulness of the body
  • Students must commit to a daily meditation practice
  • For Buddhist practitioners who have a basic understanding of Buddhism
Tuesdays: The Nalanda Seminars - In-depth study of the great Buddhist texts
  • A multi-year program, rarely offered in the west, following the ancient monastic university curriculum
  • Study of the first text, Maitreya's "Ornament of Clear Realization" will continue through 2011
  • Not recommended as a drop in class; however, classes are on the web for students who occasionally miss
  • For students with a commitment to the Buddhist path and a good understanding of Buddhism
  • Recommended for students who enjoy study and philosophy

Intro to Buddhism and Meditation:
Meditating on the Insights of the Dharma

Thursdays 7:00-9:00 PM

On Capitol Hill - off Broadway

Being at Ease, Acting with Compassion

  • Thursdays: 7:00-8:45PM

    Tentative dates.

    • Part 1: Sept. 8, 15, 22- $45 (students: $20)

    • Part 2: Sept. 29, Oct. 6, 13- $45 (students: $20)

Taught by Ven. Dhammadinna and Tenzin Jesse, this series offers an experience of the meditations and insights of the Dharma. Classes include practice in the Burmese Vipassana tradition as well as teachings in the Tibetan tradition.

We will deepen our ability to work with painful emotions and moods, enhancing optimism, patience and even-mindedness in the face of habitual tendencies toward frustration and dissatisfaction.

Dharma practice enables us to bring all our experiences, both pleasant and unpleasant, into the path of compassion and provides a tool box of practical antidotes for dysfunctional thoughts and feelings. Meditation brings clarity and awareness to our mental states, body and feelings, enhancing control over our experiences and offering us a stable and peaceful happiness that radiates outward to benefit all those with whom we come in contact.

These series are part of a year long introduction to Dharma that covers all of the basic teachings of Buddhism. Each set of classes can be taken by itself as a general, stand alone introduction or students can continue with the next set of classes that will follow on subsequent Thursdays.

Email us to register
bodhi.community@gmail.com

Classes for Buddhist Practitioners

The Abhisamayalamkara:
Maitreya's Ornament of Clear Realization

Tuedays 7:00-8:50 PM
On Capitol Hill
Email us to register and for directions

For Continuing Dharma students: Written in India in the early centuries of the 1st millenium, the "Ornament" is a commentary on the Prajnaparamita Sutras. It builds on the wisdom perspective of texts such as the Heart Sutra by explicitely teaching the entire Mahayana path in detail - a path that is only implicit in the Heart Sutra itself. His Holiness the Dalai Lama says that the "Ornament" is the root text of the Lam Rim, the path to awakening.

"The Ornament" is one of the five great Indian texts studied in the Tibetan monasteries and is the heart of the Geshe curriculum. The text occupies the first five years of the Geshe studies. Like the monks, we will unpack the terse verses of the "Ornament" using both Indian and Tibetan commentarys.

BodhiHeart is producing and using its own fresh translation of both the root text and commentary.

The Tuesday night class is designed for students who consider themselves practicing Buddhists and who enjoy study and philosophy. BodhiHeart's year-long Wednesday lam rim/Intro to Buddhism class is recommended as a minimum prerequisite.

Mindfulness Meditation Classes

For practitioners with a previous Dharma background

Thursdays 7:00-8:50 PM

Venerable Dhammadinna, a Buddhist monastic with 25 years of meditation training in the monasteries of Burma and Thailand, will introduce the foundations of mindfulness. Venerable will give the instructions on the hindrances and their antidotes, and the factors of enlightenment. The class will offer training in calm abiding and special insight with the breath as a vehicle.

The class is designed for Buddhist practioners - particularly BodhiHeart students - with an understanding of the Four Noble Truths. Students must be able to commit to daily meditation sessions at home.