Top Links
-
Recent News and Articles
- Exploring the Bodhisattva Gaze: Insights from a Day-Long Retreat with Padmadharini 9/27/2025
- Half-Day Meditation Retreat to Calm the Body • Steady the Mind – Saturday, August 2, 2025
- Self-Compassion and Chan Buddhism – David Slaymaker July 14th,2025
- Dr. Rebecca Li May 2025 Meditation and Dharma talk
- One Day Retreat on February 8th with Padmadharini
- December 2nd – Meditation and Dharma Talk with Rebecca Li
Blog Archives
Top Links
-
Recent Articles
- Exploring the Bodhisattva Gaze: Insights from a Day-Long Retreat with Padmadharini 9/27/2025
- Half-Day Meditation Retreat to Calm the Body • Steady the Mind – Saturday, August 2, 2025
- Self-Compassion and Chan Buddhism – David Slaymaker July 14th,2025
- Dr. Rebecca Li May 2025 Meditation and Dharma talk
- One Day Retreat on February 8th with Padmadharini
Archives
Donate via PayPal
You may send a check to 65 North Main Street in Yardley, PA 19067 (Att:BSBC) or if you prefer, you may donate online via PayPal by clicking on the Donate button
Author Archives: Buddhist Sangha
Returning to the Heart by Beverly Sanford
We are happy that Beverly Sanford of the Princeton Buddhist Meditation Group was able to join us again on Monday, April 20th and offer us the dharma teachings on the topic “Returning to the Heart.” This was a two-hour visit, with … Continue reading
Upcoming meditation retreats
Saturday, May 9th (half or full day) (This Retreat was canceled) BSBC Daylong Retreat – Beverly Sanford Makefield Friends Meeting at Dolington Rd in Newtown, PA (5 min drive from sangha) Cost: suggested donation $35 for full day and $20 for … Continue reading
Matthew Daniell Lecture 06/2012
We found an old lecture when Matthew Daniell visited our sangha on June 2012 Enjoy Your browser does not support HTML5 audio. We recommend Chrome Click for more audio
Establishing a Daily Meditation Practice
I have been familiar with meditation and the benefits of practice for about 14 years now and only in the last 5 years have I’ve seriously attempted to establish a regular meditation practice, with “daily practice” being the goal. During these first years I’ve … Continue reading
Lama Gursam Dharma Talk on Compassion
Lama Gursam visited us on March 27th and gave a Dharma talk Developing Compassion on and off the Meditation Cushion You can listen to it here if you missed it by clicking on the link below. Click to listen to our other … Continue reading
What are the Three Marks of Existence?
Original Article by Dana Nourie | April 17, 2013 The Three Marks of Existence is important in Buddhism, because it means we start to see things, situations as they really are. Everything is impermanent, suffering is a part of existence … Continue reading
Loving-Kindness (Metta) Meditation
by Phil Brown There are many ways to invoke loving-kindness in the spirit of traditional Buddhist practice. Here are a few variations for internal chanting from different sources. In each case, the sequence may (and should) eventually be repeated by … Continue reading
If your thoughts create the world, you are your thoughts
If your thoughts create the world, you are your thoughts Watch how water is affected with just thoughts It is impossible to control every thought that enters our minds. However, we can make the effort to patrol our mental environment. … Continue reading
The practice of Buddhist meditation is the practice of true love
This is an Excerpt from a Dharma Talk By Thich Nhat Hanh Taking care of the present moment, you recognize the presence of the sunset, the morning star, the magnolia blossoms, and the person in front of you. When you practice … Continue reading
The greatest gift we can make to others is out true presence
This is an Excerpt from a Dharma Talk By Thich Nhat Hanh When you love someone, you have to be truly present for him or for her. A ten-year-old boy I know was asked by his father what he wanted for … Continue reading
