Postponed: Wisdom & Compassion – Guiding Our Life
with Joseph Goldstein and Bart van Melik
Details forthcoming for postponement
We will honor all requests for refunds. However, the COVID-19 emergency has a devastating financial impact on all of us. If it is affordable for you to have a generous heart, please consider accepting credit towards a future program, or turning your registration into a donation. Thank you!
In this daylong retreat with Joseph Goldstein and Bart van Melik you’re invited to explore the simple and direct practice of of moment-to-moment mindfulness.
Through developing the skill of careful observation, we can experience for ourselves the ever-changing flow of the mind/body process. This awareness leads us to accept more fully the pleasure and pain, fear and joy, sadness and happiness that life inevitably brings. As insight deepens, we develop greater equanimity and peace in the face of change, and wisdom and compassion increasingly become the guiding principles of our lives.
This daylong retreat is open to everyone. We will honor and abide in noble silence including the periods of silent sitting and walking practice. There will be instructions and talks by the teachers and time for questions about your practice.
Please Note: this event is located off-site at the West Side Loft located at 163 Bank St, 3rd Floor Loft, New York, NY 10014.
Registration TBA
Teacher(s)
Joseph Goldstein
Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and lovingkindness meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. He is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he is one of the organization’s guiding teachers. In 1989, together with several other teachers and students of insight meditation, he helped establish the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.
He is the author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening, A Heart Full of Peace, One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism, Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom, The Experience of Insight, and co-author of Seeking the Heart of Wisdom and Insight Meditation: A Correspondence Course.
Bart van Melik
Bart van Melik is the Guiding Teacher at the Community Meditation Center. With training from Joseph Goldstein, Carol Wilson, and Gregory Kramer, he has been teaching meditation globally since 2009. Co-author of Still, in the City, he has brought mindfulness to diverse communities, including juvenile detention centers, homeless shelters, and NYC public schools. A graduate of the IMS/Spirit Rock Teacher Training, Bart is dedicated to helping people find new ways to navigate life’s stresses. Originally from Holland, he is passionate about making meditation accessible to all.