In-Person and Online: Buddhist Psychology – Understanding Your Mind and The Abhidharma Teachings

In-Person and Online: Buddhist Psychology – Understanding Your Mind and The Abhidharma Teachings

with David Nichtern

Saturday, January 31st, 2026 | 10:00am – 5:00pm ET

In-Person Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor

In order to free ourselves from deeply ingrained patterns of confusion that lead to unnecessary pain and suffering, the Buddhist tradition offers a comprehensive philosophical system that examines in great detail how our mind works—including our psychological habits, mental fixations, and emotional tendencies. This in-depth study of the architecture of the mind is called Abhidharma.

These teachings provide a systematic and nuanced map of how our consciousness operates—including how thoughts, emotions, feelings, sensations, and sense perceptions all come to arise and manifest in our moment-by-moment experience, shaping how we understand and perceive our world.

Developing our understanding of Abhidharma increases awareness of our habitual and counterproductive patterns of thought, emotions, and behavior and to modulate and release them. During this program we will be emphasizing the experiential aspect of these teachings: personal and transformational, powerful and immediate.

This daylong workshop will include meditation practice and instruction, talks and discussion.

Note: This program will be recorded. The recording will be sent to all registrants after the program, so please feel free to sign up even if you cannot join in real time.

In-Person 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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Bring a Buddy: If you are a member of our Circle of Friends, you’re invited to bring a Dharma buddy to this program for no additional cost. Simply select “1” from the drop-down next to the Bring a Buddy level, and enter your special discount code (provided in your Circle of Friends welcome email) to reduce the price to that of a single, standard registration. This registration will grant attendance for you and your buddy.

Online 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.)

If you are registering via a mobile device such as a phone or tablet, you can scroll right and left and up and down within the below form if it is partially obscured or cut off.
CLICK HERE to open the registration form in a new browser window.

Bring a Buddy: If you are a member of our Circle of Friends, you’re invited to bring a Dharma buddy to this program for no additional cost. Simply select “1” from the drop-down next to the Bring a Buddy level, and enter your special discount code (provided in your Circle of Friends welcome email) to reduce the price to that of a single, standard registration. This registration will grant attendance for you and your buddy.

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.