Coming up at The Buddhist Center 

Monday, April 20, 2026

6:30 pm (MT)

The Buddhist Center Website

Weekly Zoom Link

On Monday evening, we'll continue our exploration of the transformative practice of forgiveness. Forgiveness embodies the profound qualities of wisdom and compassion while freeing us and others in our world from the pain of our own closed mindedness. This is an important and uplifting conversation. Please join in.

Feel free to join us at 6:15 for tea and conversation before the teaching. 

Here is the recording of last week's teaching.

New Member Ceremony - Interested in becoming a member of the Buddhist Center? We will be holding a New Member Ceremony on May 11. More information here. Contact Marchele with questions or if you would like to join.



Upcoming learning opportunities - Blueprints of Awakening: Effortless Liberation with Mingyur Rinpoche - May 22-24 - here

Mingyur Rinpoche will be in Portland, OR July 24 - August 1 offering Path of Liberation Levels 1 and 2 as well as Dorje Drolo and White Tara empowerments. More information about POL, other offerings, and registration, during Rinpoche's time in Portland.

United Way Day of Caring- Join members of our sangha in a day of volunteerism for Routt County. This is a wonderful way to meet other people and give back to the community. May 20th from 9 -11:30 AM. More information and sign up here.

Forgiveness is not to condone or minimize the awfulness of an atrocity or wrong. It is to recognize its ghastliness but to choose to acknowledge the essential humanity of the perpetrator and to give that perpetrator the possibility of making a new beginning. It is an act of much hope and not despair. It is to hope in the essential goodness of people and to have faith in their potential to change. It is to bet on that possibility. Forgiveness is not opposed to justice, especially if it is not punitive justice but restorative justice, justice that does not seek primarily to punish the perpetrator, to hit out, but looks to heal a breach, to restore a social equilibrium that the atrocity or misdeed has disturbed.

            Desmond Tutu on For 

Contemplation of the Week - Forgiveness and Freedom

From time to time, check what you’re saying to yourself about the people in your life. Notice to see if you’re holding a grudge against anyone. Is there someone you’re refusing to forgive? What is it costing you to not forgive? How does your refusing to forgive trap you in the past? How does it trap others in the past? Image the freedom you might experience by being willing to forgive? Imaging being open hearted and generous enough to forgive? Forgiveness may take some time and effort but, over time, it will free you and others in your world.