In-Person and Online: Liberation through Relationship – The Four Wise Efforts
with Leslie Booker and Kate Johnson
Thursdays, May 2nd – 23rd, 2024
In the Four Wise Efforts, the Buddha offers us a path of skillful action that leads to a liberated mind. Join us in this four week course, as dharma teachers and longtime friends Leslie Booker and Kate Johnson apply the Four Wise Efforts to the practice of wise relationships. Together, we will develop an embodied, relational understanding of this time-honored Buddhist teaching, and learn how to better protect our energy, let go of what does not serve, cultivate the good, and sustain our liberated relationships over the long term.
Online: The Wheel of Climate Emotions
with Anya Kamenetz and Jay Michaelson
Tuesday, May 7th, 2024
In this special celebration of Earth Day, we invite you to join award-winning author and advocate Anya Kamenetz, one of the country’s leading experts on climate change and mental health, and New York Insight core team member and longtime climate journalist Jay Michaelson, to explore the wheel of climate emotions (based on the pioneering work of Panu Pihkala) and how we as Buddhists, meditators, and engaged citizens can work with it skillfully.
In-Person: Celebrating and Embodying Mahajapati
with Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Friday, May 10th, 2024, 6:30pm – 9:00pm ET
Saturday, May 11th, 2024, 1:00pm – 5:30pm ET
Mahapajapati, the Buddha’s aunt who raised him, is as a symbol of wisdom, care, nurturing, and leadership—an embodiment of caregivers, mothers, heroes, and leaders alike. Despite her significant role as a great Bodhisattva, her story remains untold and underappreciated in many discussions even today. During this two-day program, we will delve deeper into the life of Mahapajapati, drawing connections to our modern-day experiences.