Open Way Sanghas Montana Practice Talks

Practice talk by Sara Odenthal on the second Mindfulness Training: True Happiness, given at Be Here Now Sangha on Monday February 3rd, 2020 in Missoula, Montana.

In this Tuesday evening practice talk, senior practice leader Linda Lee shares her experience and insight practicing with the 4th Order of Interbeing Mindfulness Training: The Awareness of Suffering, and how it helped her reconnect to Sangha Community. January 7th, 2020.

OI aspirant Linds Sanders gives a practice talk on the First Mindfulness Training: Reverence for Life, focusing especially on her journey with vegetarianism and veganism. Given at the Be Here Now Sangha on Monday January 6th, 2020.

Senior Practice Leader of Open Way Sangha Peggy Mallette offers this practice talk on the subject of Transforming Anger. Using the Sixth Mindfulness Training of the 14 Trainings of the Order of Interbeing, Peggy shares her own powerful practice experience using Deep Looking to change her relationship to her life-long protective self-defenses. Dec 10th, 2019.

Dharma Teacher Greg Grallo shares teaching and practices for Engaged Buddhism. This talk was given at a day of mindfulness hosted by Flowing Mountains Sangha in Helena, Montana, on October 26, 2019.

This Open Way Sangha Missoula practice talk was given by Steve Allison-Bunnell on Tuesday, October 8, 2019. It suggests how we can practice Skillful Speech with eyes of Interbeing to include both expressing our own views and speaking compassionately to our audience.

Dharma talk by visiting Dharma teacher Terry Cortes-Vega, given during the Montana Open Way Sanghas fall retreat, September 2019. Talk 3 of 3. Music and songs by Brian Kimmel.

Dharma talk by visiting Dharma teacher Terry Cortes-Vega, given during the Montana Open Way Sanghas fall retreat, September 2019. Talk 2 of 3. Music and songs by Brian Kimmel.

Dharma talk by visiting Dharma teacher Terry Cortes-Vega, given during the Montana Open Way Sanghas fall retreat, September 2019. Talk 1 of 3. Music and songs by Brian Kimmel.

The "Art of Suffering Well" as taught by Thich Nhat Hanh is the practice of "being with" rather than avoiding our suffering when it inevitably arises. Given at the Open Way Sangha on Sept. 3rd, 2019

This practice talk was given by Steve Allison-Bunnell at Open Way Sangha on Tuesday, August 6. 2019. This talk is not political and does not advocate a particular view. It is an invitation to examine one's own views with the Eyes of Interbeing. Deep Looking is a practice to understand the conditions that cause a particular moment to arise. The talk offers the practice of Deep Looking as a way to e...

Dharma teacher Greg Grallo gives a talk on the Vimalakirti Sutra. Offered on July 2nd, 2019 at the Open Way Sangha in Missoula, MT.

OI member Nicole Dunn gives a talk on the practice of Cultivating Joy. Offered at the Be Here Now Sangha in Missoula, MT on Monday July 8th, 2019.

In this Tuesday Open Way Sangha, Missoula Practice Talk, Casey Farrell shares his experience following the Eightfold Path. This talk explores the Discourse on the Wheel of the Dharma. Given June 11, 2019.

In this special Tuesday night Dharma Talk at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, Soto Zen teacher Ben Connelly brings together the strands of Mindfulness as focused examination of the work and Intimacy as an awareness of the interconnection of all things. Ben offers insights and practices that explore how mindfulness and intimacy can together enrich our empathetic engagement with ourselves and the wo...

The Flower Garland Discourse: The Ten Great Aspirations of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva is one of the great poetic sutras of the Mahayana tradition. Dharma Teacher Greg Grallo shares how we can see this sutra as a Love Letter to the practice of Mindfulness.

(Starts at time stamp: 1.35)Practice talk on the Fifth Mindfulness Training: Nourishment and Healing, in the Plum Village Tradition, given on Monday May 13th, 2019 at the Be Here Now Sangha in Missoula, MT by Miriam Bayer.

Three Touchings of the Earth practice, offered during the Montana Open Way Sanghas spring family retreat on Friday May 3rd, 2019, by Dharma teacher Michael Ciborski.

Dharma talk given by Dharma teachers Michael Ciborski & Fern Dorresteyn on Sunday May 5th, 2019 during the Montana Open Way Sanghas spring family retreat.

Short Dharma talk followed by Q&A with visiting Dharma teacher Michael Ciborski, offered at Be Here Now Sangha in Missoula, MT on Monday May 6th, 2019.

Instructions for developing the proper posture and Right Spirit for sitting meditation, offered by OI member Nicole Dunn at the Be Here Now Sangha on Monday April 22, 2019.

Evening chant in the Plum Village tradition, offered by Nicole Dunn.

Practice talk given by Steve Allison-Bunnell on Tuesday, April 2. 2019. The talk begins the April Sutra Study on the Discourse on the Lotus of the Wonderful Dharma: Universal Door Chapter.

Talk on the Fourth Mindfulness Training: Deep Listening and Loving Speech, in the Plum Village Tradition, given by Suzanne Hendrich at the Be Here Now Sangha on Monday April 1st, 2019.

Practice talk on the Third Mindfulness Training: True Love, given by Amy Friedman at the Be Here Now Sangha on Monday March 4th, 2019 in Missoula, MT.