{"id":4112,"date":"2014-12-11T21:26:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T02:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/?p=4112"},"modified":"2025-09-10T20:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:56:07","slug":"buddhism-101-course-learn-to-meditate-and-practice-the-buddhas-teachings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/blog\/2014\/12\/11\/buddhism-101-course-learn-to-meditate-and-practice-the-buddhas-teachings\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhism 101 Course: Learn to Meditate and Practice the Buddha&#8217;s Teachings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about\u00a0the Buddhist path from the ground up. Who was the Buddha and his disciples, and\u00a0the Eightfold Path? What is meditation? How\u00a0do\u00a0can you\u00a0meditate?\u00a0 What are the Buddha\u2019s teachings for ordinary working people.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">Winter- Spring Semester<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">Registration\u00a0is open<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Classes begin on Sunday, January 25, 2015<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>limited to\u00a020 students<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>for the class<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>but<em> unlimited<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u00a0as a\u00a0correspondence course outside the\u00a0Connecticut\u00a0area.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Our Buddhism Course 101 is offered to all those interested in surveying the Buddha\u2019s life and teachings, and how they are applied to 21st century American life. Since 2004,\u00a0this course\u00a0has been the New England Institute of Buddhist Studies\u2019 most popular\u00a0and comprehensive course, and considered the number one Buddhist course in Connecticut.\u00a0\u00a0It is open to beginners to intermediate levels. <em>The classes meet only 6 times over a 6 month period of time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Buddhism 101 course, visit http:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/dharmaquest\/id18\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about\u00a0the Buddhist path from the ground up. Who was the Buddha and his disciples, and\u00a0the Eightfold Path? What is meditation? How\u00a0do\u00a0can you\u00a0meditate?\u00a0 What are the Buddha\u2019s teachings for ordinary working people. Winter- Spring Semester Registration\u00a0is open Classes begin on Sunday, January 25, 2015 limited to\u00a020 students\u00a0for the class but unlimited\u00a0as a\u00a0correspondence course outside the\u00a0Connecticut\u00a0area.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","ctfw-no-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13838,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions\/13838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}