Coming up at The Buddhist Center 

Monday, November 17, 2025

6:30 pm (MT)

In Person and Online

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Weekly Zoom Link

On Monday evening, we'll explore the profoundly transformative power of appreciation. Simply appreciating this world of ours lifts us up and invites us to celebrate all that we have and all those who make this life possible. Please join in.

All are welcome to come at 6:15 for tea and conversation

Here is the recording of last week's teaching.

Guiding Lineage Teachers: Please join us in supporting the sons of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche in their vital work caring for monks, nuns, and communities throughout the Himalayas. Every contribution, regardless of amount, makes a meaningful difference. The campaign will wrap up December 1st. Your generous support would be deeply appreciated.

The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.

Carl Sagan

Contemplation of the Week - Appreciative Living

This week, as soon as you wake up in the morning, take just a minute or two to bring to mind what you appreciate about your life. Bring to mind a few of the many wonderful things in your life that support you, enrich you, and delight you. It could be as simple as appreciating that you have another day. You could appreciate your soft bed, your cozy home, your family, friends, and teachers. Appreciation lights up our lives and is a constant reminder of how extraordinarily fortunate we are to have been born.