Our group study courses contain everything you need to share these valuable teachings with your community, including guides for both facilitators and participants, recommended reading lists, practices and contemplations to help participants make the teachings a part of their everyday lives, and unlimited access to all course materials for facilitators.
Exploring Self, Selflessness, and the Roots of Attachment
Imagine having Pema Chödrön sitting in your living room, speaking directly to you. This course, set in the intimate environment of remote Gampo Abbey, presents Pema teaching how to step outside ourselves to see how our sense of self develops and leads us to negative patterns of thinking.
The Hinayana Teachings of Chögyam Trungpa
The Hinayana path is the foundation of the Buddhist teachings. To enter the path of Buddhist practice, one must start here. Based on training in mindfulness and awareness and in cultivating a deeper understanding of one’s own mind, the Hinayana is what allows us to take delight in our everyday life just as it is.
The Mahayana Teachings of Chögyam Trungpa
Once the essential foundation of the Hinayana teachings has been laid, the next step begins with opening the focus of practice to include the world beyond oneself. This personal paradigm shift is the gate to the Mahayana teachings, beginning with shunyata, the essential emptiness of all phenomena, and with the compassion that naturally arises from that understanding.
The Tantric Teachings of Chögyam Trungpa
The tantric path requires complete engagement and fierce dedication. There is a quality of directness, abruptness, and wholeheartedness to it, and it is said to be the more rapid but more dangerous path.
The Tantric Teachings of Chögyam Trungpa
Mahamudra is a meditation tradition within tantric Buddhism that points to the nature of awareness itself, elevating our ordinary perception to the level of the sacred. In this view, all experiences arise from a mind that is naturally vast, empty, and luminous.
An Immersion in a Seven-Step Method for Deepening Meditation Practice
Learn a seven-step meditation practice, concisely and practically adapted from the meditation techniques of three major Buddhist traditions—Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana—which Tibetan Buddhism knits into a seamless whole.
Going Beyond the Mind to the Heart of His Teaching
In this online course, Episcopal priest, author, teacher, and retreat leader Cynthia Bourgeault serves as a masterful guide to Jesus’s vision and to the traditional contemplative practices you can use to experience the heart of his teaching for yourself.
Working with the Five Keys to Mindful Loving
Psychotherapist and author David Richo presents the five keys to being present with the one you love and teaches you how to strengthen your relationships by embracing these five qualities.
The Path and Practice of Meditation
Meditation expert and New York Times best-selling author Susan Piver has taught thousands of people how to meditate. In this course, Susan distills all of her best advice and tried-and-true techniques into a self-paced program that could change your life.
Exploring Wisdom Beyond Wisdom
For Zen Buddhists—and many others—the heart sutra expresses the nature of reality in ways both profound and paradoxical. In this online course, Kazuaki Tanahashi and Roshi Joan Halifax collaboratively explore the depths of the sutra’s teaching through talks, chanting, readings, and group discussions.
The Jewish Tradition of Mussar
At the heart of Judaism, no less fundamental than the observation of ritual and the wisdom of Jewish law, revelation, and text, is the teaching of the transformation of the heart and soul of the individual. Dr. Alan Morinis, founder of The Mussar Institute, introduces the extraordinary thousand-year-old tradition of Mussar to help practitioners acquire Torah and internalize the wisdom of the tradition.
