Our meditation instructor training program mirrors our 10-week meditation program. It's for selected experienced students who learn and participate by teaching various make-up classes during the week, leading towards their instructor certification.

This study and practice series represents the foundational level of the SBT study curriculum, a Secular Buddhist study and practice series founded on the timeless wisdom of the Buddha, a program created for audiences of diverse backgrounds and beliefs. The program is free, and all are welcome to attend - beginners and the advanced.
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To take refuge in the three jewels (the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha) is to make a formal commitment to actualize the Buddha’s teachings and path; a commitment to your own awakening. Learn more...

To take Bodhisattva vows represents initiation into the Mahayana path. It's a formal commitment to actualize the Mahayana path, which is a commitment to our own awakening. Learn more...

Lay ordination in SBT offers lay practitioners the opportunity to deepen their training beyond refuge and bodhisattva vows. SBT’s lay ordination vows consist of forty-six precepts of awakened behavior. These precepts aid us in further recognizing and clarifying which aspects of ourselves and our lives are to be cultivated and which ones are to be abandoned. Prerequisites are having held refuge and bodhisattva vows (upholding bodhisattva vows for a minimum of one year).  Learn more... 

We will be offering Monastic Ordination in the near future. 

Mind-training, or more appropriately ‘heart-training’, is a Tibetan Buddhist practice aimed at cultivating and attaining bodhichitta – the altruistic mind of awakening. It’s practiced by contemplating and visualizing a set of prescribed topics leading to the development of the mind of bodhichitta. Learn more...