Center for Contemplative Research

08/04/2026

B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D. on his experience living with the Tibetan refugee community in McLeod Ganj, Himachal Pridesh, India.

Watch “Mundane Unhappiness: the Suffering of Suffering” on the CCR YouTube channel (link in bio)

08/04/2026

This Saturday, August 8, the CCR will host its first co-taught Ghatika Monthly session, led by CCR resident teacher Doug Veenhof and Lopön Robin Gayle. Seeking a rigorous approach to promoting human flourishing in troubled times, Doug and Robin will explore how neuroscience might broaden the context of our meditation practice, and how the tools of contemplative science might contribute to both a more balanced physical brain and a deeper understanding of the nature of reality. Please see the link on our bio for the full talk description and ways to attend online and in-person. We hope you’ll join us this weekend! Please see below for exact start times for those in the Americas and Europe:

📆 Event details:

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2026
Americas: 🕔10:00 a.m. MDT / 9:00 a.m. PDT / 12:00 p.m. EDT
Europe: 6:00 p.m. CEST

🔗 Please find the Zoom link to attend in the event announcement, linked in our bio. This session will be both in person and online!

07/27/2026

Where does true happiness come from?

Watch “Genuine Happiness in the Teachings of the Buddha” on the CCR YouTube channel! (Link in bio)

07/24/2026

Watch this full episode of Fathom the Mind wherever you get your podcasts!

Fathom the Mind is produced by the Center for Contemplative Research, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Crestone, Colorado. Visit our site to explore our work and access our library with over 70 hours of guided meditations and resources on contemplative practice (link in bio).

07/09/2026

Most of us have experienced the gap between knowing and doing. We know meditation supports our well-being, yet we avoid practicing. We know kindness, patience, exercise, healthy relationships, and meaningful work enrich our lives, yet we often find ourselves pulled toward habits that offer immediate comfort while undermining our deeper aspirations. Why?

This Saturday, July 11th, John Bruna will explore the conditioned patterns of mind that continually draw us toward short-term gratification and away from lasting well-being. Drawing from Buddhist psychology, contemplative science, and practical experience, we will examine how our habitual conditioning shapes our choices, why awareness alone is often not enough to create lasting change, and how we can gradually retrain the mind to align with our deepest values.

Equanimity is not the end of the path—it is the foundation that allows us to become conscious participants rather than unconscious passengers in our own lives. Through understanding the nature of conditioning and learning practical methods for cultivating new habits of mind, we discover that genuine freedom is not found in controlling circumstances but in developing the capacity to choose wisely, intentionally, and compassionately, moment by moment.

We hope you’ll join us this weekend!

📆 Event details:

SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2026 | 🕔10:00 a.m. MDT

🔗 Please find the Zoom link to attend in our bio. This session will be both in person and online!

06/18/2026

Our deep gratitude to John Chophel Bruna for teaching on the nuances of equanimity (upeksha) at Ghatika Monthly this past Saturday!

In case you missed it, you can now watch this teaching on the CCR YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/5sF61Igjvhc?si=ajryyCalb3l-1s4q

We hope to see you for our next Ghatika Monthly session on Saturday, July 13!

In times of uncertainty, division, and rapid change, it is easy to ...

06/09/2026

In times of uncertainty, division, and rapid change, it is easy to become overwhelmed by fear, anger, frustration, or despair. Many people mistake equanimity for passivity, detachment, or simply accepting things as they are. In reality, equanimity is the foundation of wise and compassionate action. When we are caught in reactivity, our choices become driven by habit, bias, and emotion. Equanimity frees us from being controlled by these forces, allowing us to respond to life’s challenges with clarity, courage, and purpose.

This Saturday, June 13th, John Bruna will explore how cultivating an impartial and balanced mind expands our agency, strengthens our resilience, and enables us to meet even the most difficult circumstances with skill, dignity, and care. Through understanding and practice, we discover that equanimity is not a retreat from life. It is the inner freedom that allows us to participate in life more fully, love more deeply, and act more skillfully for the benefit of ourselves and others.

We hope you’ll join us this weekend! Please see below for exact start times for the Americas.

📆 Event details:

SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 2026 | 🕔 10:00 a.m. MDT

🔗 Please find the Zoom link to attend in our bio. This session will be both in person and online!

05/08/2026

Watch or listen to our full podcast episode with Prof. Michel Bitbol on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts! Find all the links in our bio.

05/04/2026

🌏 For all who live in East Asia, Australia, and New Zealand—we’re happy to share that you will be able to join Ghatika Monthly live this weekend!

How do we distinguish between our projections and what reality is actually presenting to us? How do we sharpen our discriminating awareness to see through illusion and falsehood?

This Saturday, May 9th (Sunday, May 10th for Asia-Pacific timezones), Martin Ström will explore cognitive intelligence in the CCR’s Sixfold Matrix of Mental Balance as the cultivation of clear, undistorted knowing free from projection, omission, or distortion. He will examine how cognitive deficits, hyperactivity, and dysfunction obscure our experience of reality, and how vipashyana offers a practical path of inquiry through mindfulness of body, feelings, mind, and phenomena.

Alongside the theoretical framework, the session will include guided practice and highlight practical applications in everyday life, showing how these teachings can deepen self-understanding, enrich our relationships, and help us respond to life with greater clarity, balance, and wisdom.

We hope you’ll join us this weekend! Please see below for exact start times for the Americas and for Asia-Pacific timezones

📆 Event details:

🌎 Americas: SATURDAY, MAY 9, 2026
🕔 5:00 p.m. MDT / 4:00 p.m. PDT / 7:00 p.m. EDT

🌏 Asia-Pacific: SUNDAY, MAY 10, 2026
🕘 9:000 a.m. AEST / 7:00 a.m. CST / 11:00 a.m. NZST

🔗 Please find the Zoom link to attend in our bio. This session will be online only!

04/17/2026

In this talk for the Center for Contemplative Research, B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D. diagnoses the nature of the “metacrisis” our world now faces, as well as a practical set of remedies, captured in the Sixfold Matrix of Mental Balance. We offer this message now to summarize the root causes of our compounding global crises (including political polarization, toxic nationalism, declining mental health, environmental pollution, and climate change), and to invite you into a clear framework for cultivating the ability to skillfully respond to the challenges we face.

The Sixfold Matrix is a framework developed by CCR founders Dr. B. Alan Wallace and Dr. Eva Natanya, and is a product of decades of scholarship and research. Through conative, ethical, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual intelligence, individuals and communities have the power to mitigate the mental afflictions of greed, hatred, and delusion, which are the root causes of the metacrisis.

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