Events for April 2024

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Online: What’s Vedanā Got to Do With It?

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Online: Truthfulness – A course for the LGBTQIA+ and Allied Community

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Online: Introduction to the Four Noble Truths

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Online: AI, Ethics, Compassion, and the Path Ahead

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In-Person: Presence – The Art of Being At Home in Yourself

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In-Person: Awake in Urban Nature Meditation

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In-Person or Online: Community Town Hall Gathering

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In-Person and Online: Liberation through Relationship – The Four Wise Efforts

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Online: What’s Vedanā Got to Do With It?

with Elaine Retholtz

Mondays, April 1st - May 13th, 2024 from 9:30am-11:30am ET

Vedanā refers to the immediate feeling tone of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral that arises in every moment of contact. In this course we will investigate our personal experience of vedanā, the role it plays in fueling craving and aversion, and the deeply ethical implications it has for our views, biases, and motivations for harm.

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Online: People of Color Sangha

First and third Mondays of the month from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

This sitting group provides instruction in insight meditation and fosters mutual support and understanding among the growing community of people of color who find nourishment and inspiration in the practice of meditation.

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In-Person and Online: Community Meditation Gathering

with Elaine Retholtz

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET

New York Insight is excited to offer a series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.

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Online: Truthfulness – A course for the LGBTQIA+ and Allied Community

with Wildecy de Fátima Jury and Gayah (Imani) Gillson

Thursdays, April 4th - 25th, 2024 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Truthfulness (sacca in Pali) helps us to free the mind from distortion, tunnel vision, and detrimental social constructs and paradigms. As LGBTQIA+ people and allies we might internalize these false beliefs that limit our capacity to really be our full selves. Join us for an online course exploring the power of truthfulness, and cultivating its essence proudly, yields clarity, acceptance, freedom and love.

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Online: Introduction to the Four Noble Truths

with Amy Selzer and Nancy Glimm

Saturdays, April 6th - 27th, 2024 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

What we often forget is that we have a choice to deepen our experiences of joy, and lessen our experiences of dukkha (suffering, unsatisfactoriness, or stress). In this four-week class we will look at the truth of our experiences, and practice how these truths can move us toward more skillful choices and contentment.

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Online: AI, Ethics, Compassion, and the Path Ahead

with Nikki Mirghafori

Tuesday, April 9th, 2024 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

As AI systems weave intricately into our lives and with rising concerns about super-intelligent systems, it becomes imperative to ensure that they not only echo human intelligence but also human virtues. In this talk, we will explore the importance of understanding the values we are individually and collectively optimizing for, emphasizing the pivotal role personal wisdom, compassion, and ethics play in guiding this powerful tool for the greater good.

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In-Person and Online: Community Meditation Gathering

with Gary Singer

Wednesday, April 10th, 2024 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET

New York Insight is excited to offer a series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.

Find out more

Online: People of Color Sangha

First and third Mondays of the month from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

This sitting group provides instruction in insight meditation and fosters mutual support and understanding among the growing community of people of color who find nourishment and inspiration in the practice of meditation.

Find out more

In-Person and Online: Community Meditation Gathering

with Jon Aaron

Wednesday, April 17th, 2024 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET

New York Insight is excited to offer a series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.

Find out more

In-Person: Presence – The Art of Being At Home in Yourself

with Tracy Cochran

Friday, April 19th, 2024 from 6:00pm -7:30pm

Join us as we celebrate the publication of the book Presence: The Art of Being at Home In Yourself by a long-time meditation teacher Tracy Cochran at the Rubin Museum of Art. We'll discuss teachings from the book and explore how the light of presence can illuminate and expand your life.

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In-Person: Awake in Urban Nature Meditation

with Maho Kawachi

Saturday, April 20th, 2024 from 10:00am to 12:30pm

Please join us in honoring Earth Day with a guided meditative walk along the Hudson River. While practicing walking, standing, and sitting meditation together, we will engage our five senses, notice thoughts, feelings, and reactions, and give ourselves an opportunity to open to our body, heart, and environment.

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In-Person and Online: Community Meditation Gathering

with Leslie Booker

Wednesday, April 24th, 2024 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET

New York Insight is excited to offer a series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.

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In-Person or Online: Community Town Hall Gathering

Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 from 7:30pm – 9:30pm ET

New York Insight’s Leadership Collective would like to invite you to our Community Town Hall Gathering. Together, we will have an opportunity to connect with each other, introduce you to some new people (staff & board), provide updates on many wonderful things-including our search for a new home, share preliminary results from our Community Survey and hear your thoughts on how NYI can continue to support your practice and serve as your spiritual home.

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In-Person and Online: Community Meditation Gathering

with Lani Miller

Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET

New York Insight is excited to offer a series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.

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In-Person and Online: Liberation through Relationship – The Four Wise Efforts

with Leslie Booker and Kate Johnson

Thursdays, May 2nd - 23rd, 2024 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

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.

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