Welcome to the Burlington Area Buddhist Fellowship in Vermont. We are a peer-led practice group primarily rooted in the Vipassana (Insight) Tradition. While many of us have practiced at IMS in Barre, MA we welcome all who are on the path to liberation through meditation and integration of the Buddha’s teachings into daily life, regardless of cultural and religious background, race, ethnicity, socio-economic class, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, educational background, or ability. If you are a beginner, we offer donation based classes so you might become familiar with Buddhist practice. We are dedicated to supporting each other’s practice and to creating a culture of inclusion, kindness and generosity.
Our primary meeting time is Sunday morning from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Join us for meditation, dharma talk, discussion, and tea. You can find material from our past meetings in the Archive. Also, you can check out our calendar as we are starting to offer more ways to gather for meditation and study. Please read below for ways to connect with us.
The Burlington Area Buddhist Fellowship is primarily a group of long-term dharma practitioners living in northern Vermont (and a few New Yorkers) who meet to study, discuss, and practice together. We do not have a dedicated teacher, but instead take turns offering and leading the Sunday meeting. Anyone is welcome to join us in person for our meetings on Sunday.
Whether you are a long term practitioner or are just getting started and are simply curious about what Buddhist practice is all about, we offer several ways to engage with our community.
- Join us Sunday morning for our weekly meeting
- Read about the classes we offer and sign up for our class e-mail list
- Check out some resources on meditation
- Browse our archive to see the kinds topics we cover
If you have any questions, please feel free to email us, but also know it may take some time to respond as we are a small, volunteer based organization and don’t regularly check this email address.
Everything we do is offered freely, but if you would like to support us, you can do so here.
The nature of a Sangha is to be inclusive and, we believe, to actively work toward equality. To that end, we have collected some resources which you may find useful regarding anti-racism on a dedicated page.
Recent talks (see more in our archive)
Wholesome Attention in an Attention Economy
While it’s nice to take time each day or perhaps each week to give our minds space to rest in silence, the reality is that for most of us, much of our days are spent immersed in the digital world. Clicking on notifications, scrolling for updates, reading articles, and chatting with friends or coworkers online…
A Foray into Zen
Zen is sometimes called a non-dual practice of Buddhism. What does it mean to practice non-dualistically? Not an easy question to answer. Eric presented his understanding by first discussing our perfectly normal, reasonable and rational dualistic way of relating to the world and then explored how different Buddhist traditions approach the shift from dualistic to…
Finding Beauty and Peace with Nothing to Hold Onto
Among the teachings that the Buddha considered most important to learn, to internalize, and to detect in all situations is Annica – Change as a characteristic of all experience. Usually this is articulated somewhat negatively – whatever we have and love will be taken from us. But that is only one dimension of Annica. Life flourishes…
