EVENTS
Opportunities to Sit Together
BHC Weekly Meditation
Insight Meditation with Vinny & Friends
The Big Heart City sangha meets in person every first Friday of the month and on Zoom all other Fridays.
To know that you’re a prisoner of your own mind and that you live in an imaginary world of your own creation is the dawn of wisdom.
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
Daylongs & Classes
March 11, 2023
Gladdening the Mind - Daylong
Big Heart City | Online
The perpetual sense of becoming is exhausting and it keeps us postponing arrival. We’ll practice locating ourselves outside that paradigm of evaluation and judgment, and for one day, just as an experiment, let in the possibility that we can’t do it wrong… and then explore how it really feels to unconditionally accept this moment just as it is.
Residential Retreats
April 13-16, 2023
Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos Los Altos, CA
Welcome to Someday In-person Retreat
Many of us resonate with the Buddha’s teachings of liberation, and hope that someday we’ll finally get around to it. Welcome my friends, to someday. This silent retreat will offer us a break from the world of words and give us some nourishing time to rest in being.
Young Adult Insight Meditation Retreat
Come practice silent mindfulness and Insight Meditation for a week in a group of your peers. Give yourself a break from constant overstimulation and external demands as we create a supportive space for cultivating greater inner calm, spaciousness, and presence.
July 31-August 5, 2023
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Woodacre, CA
A Love Supreme Retreat
Our time will be spent exploring the Buddha’s heart teachings aka “the sure heart’s release.” We’ll look at cultivating different expressions of love and working with what gets in the way. Together we’ll practice taking refuge in the natural radiance of the unobscured heart.
September 1-6, 2023
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center
Taos, NM
Big Heart City Retreat
Stay tuned for more information!
September 14-17, 2023
Bay Area, CA
Metta Retreat
Stay tuned for more information!
December 4-10, 2023
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Woodacre, CA
Courses
2023
Year to Live
Spirit Rock | Online SOLD OUT
In our largely death-denying modern culture, few are encouraged to actively contemplate the inevitability of our death, or that it could happen at any time. The Buddha recommended that we do just that, not to frighten us, but to use death as an object of contemplation to help us awaken to the fragile, fleeting, and precious nature of our lives.
