There is value in consistent, daily meditation.
Please join us for any of our mindfulness and meditation offerings. TBC hosts daily, weekly, and monthly opportunities to practice together in community, with experienced teachers and leaders there to guide and support you.
Whether you want to join a live session or practice on your own schedule, we have options to fit your routine:
On-Demand Practice: Can't make a live session? We now offer an expanding library of guided meditation recordings so you can practice whenever and wherever you need.
Live Gatherings: Most of our classes, retreats, and events have an online option via either Livestream, Facebook Live, or Zoom, in addition to in-person. No matter how you choose to join us, you will feel included and welcome.
Go to our Classes & Event page to get more details and find out how to connect.
Guided Meditation: Protective Energy: Sink into a soothing body scan and breathwork practice that helps you build a protective energy bubble around your sense of calm.
Guided Meditation: Lovingly Offer What is Needed: In this 6-minute guided meditation, we settle into the breath and gently ask ourselves "What is the most loving thing I can offer here?"
Guided Meditation: Here & Resting: A gentle, beginner-friendly guided meditation designed to help you slow down and arrive in the present moment.
Guided Meditation: Web of Connection: A calming, guided meditation on the truth that our pain is never ours alone.
Click above for a free SoundCloud download of flute meditation by Richelle Basgall, one of our TBC musicians.
TBC Sunday Service at 9am (livestreamed and in-person) and 10:30am (in-person)
All levels of practice are invited to join us each Wednesday afternoon for meditation and discussion around the current book we are reading. Join anytime! (on Zoom)
Practicing in the tradition of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, this group focuses on mindfulness, meditation and teachings from around the world and from some of todays most influential spiritual leaders. (on Zoom)
Insight Meditation: Thursday Evening Sangha with Robert Brumet @ 7pm (Zoom)
Retreats
Temple Buddhist Center is committed to providing meaningful meditation opportunities for everyone.
We offer daylong hybrid retreats on a quarterly basis, and one or two residential retreats per year.
Our next retreat is our 4th quarter daylong retreat on December 12th, followed by our New Year’s Residential Retreat at the end of December.
Virtual and In-Person attendance is always available.
The daylong retreat is an excellent way to deepen one's practice and is provided for the community to accommodate busy family lives. There will be sitting, walking, and movement meditations as well as conferences and a dharma talk. Participants are encouraged to bring a sack lunch, wear comfortable clothing and bring a reusable drinking cup. Whether you have been meditating for years or weeks, we hope you will join us as we take a deeper dive into the practice together.
Daylong Retreat Schedule:
9:00 am Retreat Orientation (zoom protocols, intros, expectations)
9:30 am Instruction & Sit
10:00 am walk/conference
10:30 am Sit
11:00 pm walk/conference
11:30 pm sit
12:00 pm lunch (bring sack or eat nearby)
1:15 pm Dharma talk & Q and A
2:30 pm walk/conference
3:00 pm Sit
3:30 pm Sharing Circle
4:00 Heart Practice and end
Insight Meditation is a practice that aims to free the mind from the distortions of self-centeredness, negativity, and confusion. Through the intensive practice of moment-to-moment investigation of the body-mind process the mind gradually sees more clearly into the nature of itself. Such clear seeing leads to freedom from the attachments and misconceptions that cause our suffering and allows us to open to a path of wisdom and compassion.