In-Person and Online: Transforming Confusion Into Wisdom – Buddhist Tantra & The 5 Wisdom Energies
with David Nichtern
Sunday, June 1st, 2025 | 10:00am – 5:00pm ET
In-Person Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor
Join renowned, multiple Emmy-winning and Grammy-nominated musician, meditation teacher, and author David Nichtern for a transformative daylong workshop on Buddhist Tantra.
These powerful teachings are designed to transmute confusion and mental afflictions into wisdom. Through the lens of tantra, we learn to engage directly with the raw energies of our emotions—anger, desire, fear—and transform them into sources of insight, compassion, and clarity.
At the heart of tantric practice are the teachings known as the Five Wisdom Energies, which embody the enlightened qualities that arise when we skillfully navigate and integrate our emotional experiences.
These teachings describe how our emotional and psychological patterns—when met with awareness—can reveal deep, awakened qualities of the mind. Each energy has both positive and counter-productive qualities, and seeing and understanding them helps us recognize that our messy, emotional lives are not obstacles to awakening—they’re actually part of the path.
Whether you’re new to meditation or a longtime practitioner, everyone is welcome to join us.
The day will feature meditation instruction and practice, lectures, and plenty of time for discussion.
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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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.)
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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)
David Nichtern
David Nichtern is a senior Buddhist teacher who has been practicing and teaching meditation for over 50 years. He was one of the initial American students of renowned meditation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and studied closely with him soon after his arrival in the United States in 1970.
David is the Founder and CEO of Dharma Moon and also a business consultant for companies creating a variety of offerings integrating meditation in a larger health and well-being context; including Goldman Sachs, Journey Meditation, Creative Live, True Nature Meditation (Tokyo), Balanced Athlete, The Center for Health & Healing, Om Births, and Kobre & Kim law firm among others.
He has been featured in The New York Times, FOX News, Netflix’s The Midnight Gospel, Huffington Post, The Buddhist Geeks podcast, Duncan Trussell Family Hour Podcast, You Made it Weird Podcast with Pete Holmes, and many others. David also hosts his own Podcast based on his book Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck.
David is the author of the critically acclaimed Awakening From the Daydream: Reimagining The Buddha’s Wheel of Life and Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck. He mentors individual students both in person and online, and leads meditation teacher training programs around the world.
He is a highly regarded composer, producer and guitarist, as well as the founder of Dharma Moon Records and 5 Points Records. David has recorded and played with Stevie Wonder, Jerry Garcia, Lana Del Rey, Maria Muldaur, Paul Simon and many others. Among his many credits in records, film and TV, he wrote the classic song “Midnight at the Oasis” and composed the score for Christopher Guest’s film “The Big Picture”. In recent years he has produced multiple records for and periodically tours with Grammy nominated kirtan performer Krishna Das.