BUDDHISM IN EVERYDAY LIFE
A Yearlong Journey into Living a Meaningful Life
Guided by Lodro Rinzler and special guests from the Basic Goodness Collective
Join a yearlong online community dedicated to waking up—together:
✦ Live meditations every Monday and Wednesday morning
✦ Monthly themes mapping Buddhism onto everyday life
✦ New video courses every Thursday
✦ Monthly online community meetups for accountability and support
*recording available after every live event
This isn’t just another course. It’s a yearlong path for anyone who’s ready to stop running on autopilot and live with intention.
Over twelve months, you’ll cultivate the three principles of mindfulness, compassion, and wisdom—one step at a time. You’ll learn Buddhist teachings that translate directly to your real life, supported by a global community of practitioners who care as deeply as you do.
Whether you join for the full year or drop into individual courses that call to you, each month offers a step deeper into clarity, compassion, and embodied wisdom.
Learn more about Lodro Rinzler here and his books here.
Want to sign up for the first week for free?
What You’ll Gain
Consistent Practice & Accountability
We begin with the Month of Mindfulness (January 1 – 31)—a daily meditation commitment that sets the tone for your entire year. The first week is free to join, and from there you’ll build momentum, consistency, and real-world mindfulness that lasts.
New Meditation Techniques Not Found Anywhere Else
Each week there is a live guided meditation online and over the course of the year you’ll learn everything from shamatha to R.A.I.N. to tonglen to non-meditation.
Access to two dozen of the best meditation teachers alive today
The twice weekly guided meditations are led by a rotating faculty devoted to making sure your practice is the strongest it can be. Featured here are Adreanna Limbach, Sara Shah, Kirat Randhawa, Neil D’Astolfo and Susan Piver.
“I’m experiencing a level of freedom and contentment in life that 5+ years ago seemed otherworldly.” - Tania, current community member
Transformative Curriculum
Across the year, you’ll move through a carefully crafted progression of teachings with each month bringing up a new way to integrate Buddhism into the nitty-gritty aspects of daily life. New 20-30 minute classes come out every Thursday to be watched at your own pace.
Click Here for the Full List of Talks Offered Each Week
January -The Month of Mindfulness
Each week you are taught a new guided meditation. Each day you get a short mindful prompt with words of wisdom to integrate mindfulness into your everyday life.
What you’ll walk away with: a fully established meditation practice
February - How to Be Happy in a World of Suffering
We dive into the earliest teachings of the Buddha known as the Four Noble Truths as well as contemporary teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh who was adamant that frankly, suffering is not enough. We also have to experience joy in everyday life.
March - Confronting Our Demons: The Three Poisons and Their Antidotes
We spend the spring looking at the three root poisons as taught by the Buddha, learning how to unhook ourselves from negative habitual patterns. There’s a special focus on anger, craving, ignorance and turning poison into medicine (i.e. working with everything that comes up in the day).
April - The Buddhist Way of Belonging: Family, Strangers and Difficult People
In today’s world, many of us suffer from loneliness and lack of belonging. In our supportive community we discuss finding connection with the people we love, don’t know and can’t stand as a means to heal our relationships with ourselves and society.
May - How to Live an Intentional Life
The Buddha instructed us to look at our lives and determine what is meaningful. If we take the time to intentionally look, we determine what a meaningful life looks like for us. We discuss karma and how our choices create our lives, the power of intention and how to build a life that reflects your values.
June - How to Love: Buddhism and Relationships
Whether you are single, dating, married or something else entirely, we all struggle with how to remain open-hearted in today’s world. Topics include loneliness, dating without losing yourself, how to stay in love and when love leads to heartbreak and grief.
July - Right Speech: How Conversations Can Change the World
The traditional Buddhist framework of body, speech and mind shows us that the way we converse with others can transform our lives into a state of deep meaning. We will dive into the art of deep listening, how to say the hard thing, working with gossip and conflict and what it means to practice Right Speech in our age of social media.
August - The Buddha Walks into the Office
Based on the teachings from Lodro’s award-winning book of the same name, we study what the Buddha taught about Right Livelihood, what makes our work meaningful, how to avoid burn out, working with difficult people and the Six Tools for Compassionate Leadership.
September - Money, Consumption and the Buddhist Life
An infrequent topic in Buddhist circles, here we discuss what it means to live in a capitalistic society and have to relate to things like money and consumerism. We apply the traditional Buddhist yanas, or vehicles, to becoming more discerning about how we make and spend wealth, bringing that activity into alignment with our values.
October - How to Live with Uncertainty
We crave certainty but Buddhism shows us that the ground is always moving under our feet. Here we look at the teachings that apply to working with anxiety about the future, what to do when life doesn’t go according to plan and how to cultivate and value hope.
November - Letting Go: A Buddhist Guide to Change, Loss and Grief
Everything changes (I’m sorry). How can we apply the Buddhist teachings to make friends with impermanence and learn to grief as a form of love? We also dive into a very specific form of impermanence: death, dying and what Buddhism says comes next.
December - The Buddhist Method for Living a Good Life
We close our year with specific practices for gratitude, forgiveness and generosity and discuss “What really matters?” as a means to bring these teachings from the year into every part of your life.
“This community and practice is life changing! $50 a month is an investment in my peace of mind.” - Cherie W, current community member
A Supportive Community
You’ll join a living, breathing circle of people — The Basic Goodness Collective — who are walking this path with you.
A vibrant online community - we have our own platform - where you can share wins, ask questions, and stay encouraged.
Twice weekly live gatherings on Zoom: real time, human presence, guided meditations + reflection.
Monthly meet-ups online: intimate gatherings with special guest teachers or peer sharing.
Accountability built in: we don’t just learn—we do. We encourage one another, check in, show up.
This is more than “mindfulness.” It’s connection—to your own heart, and to others who get it. It’s the fertile soil in which your practice grows.
“Lodro’s presents complex topics in an easy to understand manner. He is very down to earth and doesn’t make anyone feel ‘less than’ no matter where they are on their journey. He is human and relatable.” - Lauren, community member
Recognition for Your Commitment
Complete the full Buddhism in Everyday Life and you’ll receive a Certificate of Completion and gift package tailor-made by Lodro —recognizing your commitment to mindfulness and growth. Graduates become eligible for advanced trainings and receive exclusive invitations to future retreats.
Enroll for the full journey, combine it with Teacher Training, or select the classes that speak directly to your heart.
F.A.Q.
Q: What’s the time requirement each week?
A: Totally up to your level of commitment. The class every Thursday is pre-recorded and runs 20-30 minutes. The live guided meditation is 30 minutes live (and comes out as a recording later that day). So…20-60 mins/week!
Q: Do I need prior meditation experience?
A: No way friend. Come as you are.
Q: How do I combine this with Teacher Training?
A: Please visit this page for more info
Q: Is there financial aid or sliding scale?
A: Yes - please submit all inquiries to lodrorinzler at gmail dot com