We currently run nine courses, with more to come. You enroll starting with Course IA and complete each course before enrolling in the next one in sequence.

Courses IA & IB

Introducing the Buddha’s Teachings and the Foundation for Buddhist Practice

Courses 1A and 1B cover topics such as happiness, working with emotions, gaining an accurate view of ourselves and our lives, and how to set up a daily practice.

Course II

Renunciation

Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Course II explores the meaning of renunciation and the determination to be free, the reasons and methods for cultivating it, and how to ascertain when we have generated renunciation.

Course III

Bodhicitta

Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Bodhicitta is the altruistic intention to benefit all living beings, including oneself, and to become a Buddha in order to do so. This module explores the advantages of bodhicitta, its importance, and how to cultivate it.

Course IV

Karma

Karma means action. This module covers virtuous and non-virtuous actions and their results, how the law of cause and effect functions, and how to purify destructive actions.

Course V

The Four Truths for Noble Ones – Part 1

The Four Truths for Noble Ones (often translated as the Four Noble Truths) are the foundation of the Buddha’s teachings. Here we examine our current situation, its causes, the possibility of attaining liberation, and the path to that liberation.

Course VI

The Four Truths for Noble Ones – Part 2

In Part 2, we delve more deeply into the aspects of the Four Truths for the Noble Ones.

Course VII

Refuge

Once we have a basic understanding of cyclic existence and our human potential, we take refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and the Sangha. This course explore what that means.

Course Vlll

The Six Perfections – Part 1

The six perfections – generosity, ethical conduct, fortitude, joyous effort, meditative stability and wisdom – are practices that benefit us and those around us, now and in the future. This course examines the first three practices—generosity, ethical conduct, and fortitude—exploring what makes them “far-reaching,” and how to cultivate them.

Course IX

The Six Perfections – Part 2

This course continues study of the six perfections and looks at the second set of three practices: joyous effort, meditative stabilization, and wisdom; the advantages gained by cultivating them; and methods for cultivating them.

