The Buddhist Center — Thubten Norbu Ling

A meditation practice of the female deity, Green Tara. Tara is the embodiment of the holy actions of the Buddhas. By practicing Tara meditation, you can eliminate inner and outer obstacles to the development of your mind, create much merit, and achieve quick success in attaining enlightenment.

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Buddhism can look like a collection of unrelated ideas until you see the structure underneath them. This four-week course with Charok Lama traces the internal logic of the Buddhist path — from the nature of suffering, to karma, to liberation, to what it actually means to take refuge — building toward a coherent, working understanding of how it all fits together.

Designed for people with little or no background in Buddhism, as well as anyone who's encountered these ideas in scattered ways and wants the fuller picture.

Having pain or discomfort at work? Or in doing the activities you love? Are you wanting to feel more comfortable in your own body and movement? The Feldenkrais Method is an immensely useful tool in getting you there. The Feldenkrais Method cultivates awareness of our bodily habits and teaches us how to move with greater ease and comfort. Every Thursday from 5-6pm, we gather for an Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lesson.

The structure of a lesson helps to improve a certain pattern of movement like bending down, walking, breathing, or reaching up. It is a series of gentle, attention-filled movement, and most lessons are done lying on the floor. The lesson and verbal guidance of the instructor deepens the awareness of your body and the habits you have.

We all have habits, and they are necessary in our lives. Sometimes our habits are helpful to us, and sometimes not so much. But becoming aware of our habits and creating other options enables us to feel better in our bodies and improves our movement.
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Many of us took refuge in a ceremony with little prior instruction, then encountered the topic again only in introductory courses aimed at newcomers — so refuge tends to function as a credential, something that happened, rather than a living practice with real philosophical depth.

This course treats refuge as a subject worth serious attention: what actually makes the Three Jewels valid objects of refuge, why the Dharma of realization (not scripture) is the primary refuge object, and what it means for Sangha refuge to refer specifically to Arya beings rather than the practitioner community.

Understanding what refuge is protecting against, and how, determines whether daily refuge practice is a genuine lived experience. If you come with real questions about how your practice functions, the tradition has more to say on this than you may realize.

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