“A Path of Compassion for Everyday Life”
Mondays
February 2nd - May 11th
7:00-8:30p ET
With Lama Tsering Ngodup & Noel Coakley
In Person at JP Centre Yoga or Live Via ZOOM
RECORDINGS AVAILABLE FOR ALL SESSIONS
to those who can't participate live and for review
$750 for the full 12-session course
Payment plans and tiered pricing options available below.
SCHEDULE: 12 Sessions
2/2, 2/9, 2/16, 2/23,
3/2, 3/9, 3/16, 3/23, 3/30
4/6, (no 4/13 or 4/20), 4/27,
5/4, 5/11 optional Refuge and Bodhisattva Vow Ceremony
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This 12 session course is a practical exploration of what it means to live a compassionate, awake, and grounded life in the modern world. Together, we will study The 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva, a beloved Tibetan Buddhist text that offers clear, usable roadmap for meeting life’s challenges with wisdom and an open heart.
We’ll explore this teachings in a relatable, down-to-earth way. Together, Lama Tsering and Noel will weave the traditional meaning of each verse as well as modern psychological and contemplative perspectives in order to work with them in life - relationships, family, work, and the internal landscapes we all carry.
This course is not just a study - it’s a living practice. Each session will include practicing meditations that help soften reactivity, open the heart, and clarify intention. We’ll practice and engage in discussions together as a mutually supportive community.
This course is appropriate for new and experienced practitioners alike - anyone wishing to deepen their understanding of the bodhisattva path (the path of the awakened heart warrior).
As with our previous program, this course will offer an optional opportunity to take (or re-affirm) refuge and bodhisattva vows - a personal commitment to cultivating awareness and compassionate action. (This is approached not as a commitment to any particular teacher or lineage, but to one’s own practice.)
As a guiding support, this course will lean into Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche’s text “The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva.” This text is considered to be a profound, comprehensive guide to the Buddhist path. Dilgo Khyentse (1910-1991) was a meditation master, scholar, and poet who was known for his playfulness and incredibly warm, loving presence. The text is a commentary (explanation) on Gyalse Ngulchu Thogme’s 14th century poem that was written as a distillation of Shantideva’s ‘Way of the Bodhisattva.’
OUR TIERED PRICING
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Reflects the lower end of the average Boston market rate. It is intended for those who are able to support our studio at the true cost of our offering.
Priced at Market value this tier is suited for people with a stable income and access to food, housing and healthcare, the ability to build savings and afford leisure activities
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Provides a 15% discount as a more comfortable option for anyone who cannot afford the standard rate.
USE PROMO CODE: Supported
This tier is suited for people with unstable/reduced/low income that creates some stress about meeting basic needs.
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Provides a 25% discount for those in need of greater financial assistance.
USE PROMO CODE: SupportedPlus
This tier is suited for people with unstable or inadequate income that sometimes prevents access to food, housing and healthcare.
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Provides a 50% to practitioners who identify as Black, Indigenous and People of Color.
USE THE PROMO CODE: WellnessEquity
We don’t assume that all who identify as BIPOC require or want financial support to access courses. For those who do, we see this as a step we can take towards offering reparations within a healthcare system that has predominantly failed communities of color.
We ask that this code is not used by white allies.
Course Facilitator:
Noel Coakley
BCCP Founder, Psychotherapist, Meditation Teacher
Noel (he/him) is a mental health counselor and former school teacher (special ed.). He has been practicing meditation since 1996, initially with Indo-Tibetan traditions and then Yundrung Bön. Noel has been fortunate to learn from over 100 teachers, including HH the Dalai Lama and HH the 34th Menri Trizin.
Beyond his professional life, Noel is a loving father, husband, brother, musician, and friend to his dog, Clementine.
Lama Tsering Ngodup
BCCP Founder, Psychotherapist, Meditation Teacher
Lama Tsering Ngodup Yodsampa is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, an interfaith chaplain at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and spiritual caregiver and meditation teacher at Veterans Affairs in Bedford, Massachusetts.
Lama Tsering was born in Tibet and, at an early age, experienced the tragedies and struggles of refugees in Nepal and India after escaping the communist Chinese occupation of Tibet. He received school and college education in India provided for Tibetan children under the direction of HH Dalai Lama. In the 1970s, he opened and ran a restaurant called The Lost Horizon for travelers, adventurers, and spiritual seekers in Kathmandu, Nepal. He then taught Tibetan language and culture and religion in School For International Training, in Nepal. He also served as interpreter for the Tibetan Buddhist meditation master and scholars at the Kamalashila Institute for Buddhist Studies and Practice in Germany.
In 2000, under the spiritual direction of Late 14th Kunsig Shamarpa Rinpoche of Karma Kagyu tradition, Tsering came to the US to translate and teach Buddhist philosophy and meditation. Shamarpa is one of the highest lineage holders of the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
Today, Tsering is founder and spiritual director of the Bodhi Tree Institute for Tibetan Buddhist Study and practice and regularly leads study groups and meditation in the Mahayana path. He has four units of CPE training and is a certified field education supervisor for chaplain interns from Harvard Divinity School.