Karuna Buddhist Center will celebrate Saga Dawa Duchen (also known as Vesak) on Friday May 24th this year. It is one of the holiest days of the Buddhist calendar, commemorating the Buddha's birth, enlightenment, and death. This entire lunar month, known as Saga Dawa, is considered an auspicious time to practice the dharma and abstain from negativities, and the "Duchen" or "Great Occasion" occurs on the Full Moon day of the month. This year, Karuna will start [...]

Meditation is fundamental to any spiritual path, and calm-abiding meditation (shamatha) is elementary for all Buddhist paths. Focused on the first three of nine stages, this program teaches new meditators the fundamentals: how to focus their mind on a single object, what we mean by attention and awareness in meditation, and how to troubleshoot distraction and dullness when we meditate. Students will have access to Karuna Buddhist Center's diverse community of experienced meditators, trained Buddhist teachers, and [...]

Buddhism is concerned with the habits that drive many of our actions, and how we can improve our lives by understanding and changing them. Many of these methods have much in common with secular approaches even when framed somewhat differently, and you don't have to be a Buddhist to apply many of these "skillful means." This 7-session workshop will help participants identify habits that are troublesome, learn more about universal laws of habit change, and develop their [...]