Online: You Are the Path – Living a Good Life in Bad Times
with Tracy Cochran
Saturday, June 14th, 2025 | 10:00am – 1:00pm ET
Online via Zoom
Life is always hard, but these times feel especially uncertain and the stakes feel very high.
How can we live a truly good life now? What should we do and how should we do it? Fortunately, the Buddha offers us a guide rope. The Eightfold path of the Buddha braids together practices for body, heart, and mind.
Confused about how to live? The Buddha offers us a way into our own deepest wisdom. Lost in thought or full of difficult feelings? Focus on what you are doing. Following this guide rope, our own lives become a way of awakening.
Over the course of this half-day retreat, we’ll explore the whole of the path with a special emphasis on finding our own deepest insights and experiences. Together we’ll combine meditation with mindful writing exercises designed to help us find our own way. Special emphasis will be given to “beginning the path,” and our own moments of clarity and experiments in living.
With time for meditation and discussion, we’ll learn how to take root in our own wisdom and make our actual lives our path.
Registration:
Please register below. If you are able, registering at the “Supporter” level enables others to attend at the “Subsidized” level. Thank you for your generosity! (Please note that the registration price includes a base level of teacher support, and you will have the opportunity to donate more after the program.)
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Volunteering
All of our programs rely on volunteers to support our teachers and staff with various tasks and responsibilities. Volunteering allows you to participate in our programs at no cost. To inquire about volunteering opportunities, please fill out our inquiry form, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Teacher(s)
Tracy Cochran
Tracy Cochran has taught meditation and spiritual practice for many years. She is a speaker and author whose most recent book is Presence: The Art of Being At Home in Yourself (Shambhala, 2024). Tracy is the founder and guiding teacher of the Hudson River Sangha and has taught mindfulness and mindful writing at New York Insight, the Rubin Museum, and many other venues. Tracy has served as the editorial director of the acclaimed spiritual quarterly Parabola, and her writings have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Psychology Today, The Best Spiritual Writing series, Parabola, many other publications and anthologies. For more about Tracy, please visit tracycochran.org and parabola.org.