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October 2020
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart Van Melik
Friday, October 23rd, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application. Find out more
Resilience Club: Emotional Resilience for Politically Charged Times – An Online Urban Retreat
with Ralph De La Rosa
Saturday, October 24th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pmThe emotional impact of the election season lands on us when we already feel threadbare. It's never been so tough to maintain wellbeing, clarity, compassion, and non-reactivity -- and yet it's never been more important. Join us for a day of truly integrated practice and community connection informed by our complex needs during these times. Find out more
Online: Mind Knowing Mind – Embracing Radical Acceptance Through the Practice of Insight
with Lama Justin von Bujdoss
Sunday, October 25th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ETIn this special online program, Lama Justin von Bujdoss will give a concise, contemporary teaching on a set of six meditation instructions at the core of Vajrayana insight practices known as Mahamudra, or the Great Seal, aimed at directly experiencing mind as it arises. Find out more
Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Gary Singer
Tuesday, October 27th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ETThese teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion. Find out more
November 2020
Online: Awakening Together – The Great Potential of Change
Bart van Melik
Sunday, November 1st, 2020 from 9:00am - 3:00pm ETFor the sake of our well-being the Buddha asks us to understand and radically accept the universal truth of change. Supported by kind awareness, wisdom and community during this daylong program for experienced Insight Dialogue practitioners, we’ll explore the potential and difficulty of changes in our lives. Find out more
Stability in the Storm: IMS invites you to a pre-election Day Meditation Sit
with Sharon Salzberg
Monday, November 2nd, 2020 from 7:00pm – 8:00pmOn November 2, the day before election Tuesday, renowned meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg will offer a free, hour long online program sharing words of wisdom and encouragement as we navigate this difficult time. She will also lead several guided meditations to cultivate calm and stability and help restore our connection to ourselves and to one another. Find out more
Online: Living a Principled Life
with Bhante Pamutto
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ETHow do we stay on the path through the ups and downs of life? Bhante Pamutto will discuss the Eightfold Path not just as a blueprint for liberation, but a description of the stable core to a life that is beautiful from beginning to end. Find out more
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, November 6th - November 27th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application. Find out more
Online: A Question of Identity
with Martine Batchelor
Saturday, November 7th, 2020 from 9:00am - 12:00pm ETDuring this special morning online exploration with Buddhist teacher Martine Batchelor, we will discover with mindful awareness what our identity is based on and how we relate to it that in a way that is confident, bright, creative and open to others and the world -- without being defined by them. Find out more
Online: Metta-Vipassana – Integrating the Four Foundations of Mindfulness with Heart Practices
with Dave Smith
Sunday, November 8th, 2020 from 10:00am - 12:00pmVipassana meditation (insight or mindfulness practice) unites the stillness of concentration with the immediacy of moment to moment experience. As we learn to calm the body and mind, intuitive wisdom arises. This allows us to open to the truth of each moment’s experience within and around us. In this way, we increase our ability to meet life’s ups and downs with ease and presence. During this event, students will be guided on how to deepen their liberation practice in an atmosphere of kind awareness. Find out more
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, November 13th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application. Find out more
Online: Metaphors of Mindfulness
with Andrew Olendzki
Saturday, November 14th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ETIn this program we will look closely at some of the images, similes, and other literary devices used in the Pali Canon, and in some later literature, to define and describe the practice of mindfulness. We will pause from time to time to examine some of these images experientially as an aid to our own meditation practice. Find out more
Online: Practice in Challenging Times
with Mark Coleman
Sunday, November 15th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ETHow can Dharma wisdom teachings and practices of mindfulness and compassion support us during these times? Mark Coleman will explore key Dharma teachings and practices that help us find clarity, heartfulness and balance in the midst of life. Find out more
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, November 20th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application. Find out more
Online: Cultivating Thanksgiving
with Bonnie Duran, Jeff Haozous and Ramona Peters
Saturday, November 21st, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ETGiving thanks is a tradition in both Buddhism and Native American cultures. Thanksgiving ceremony is a medicine that we can use to begin to heal to ourselves, our relationships, and our world. In this half day program, the teachers will offer meditation practices to develop gratitude which are grounded in Buddhist teachings and informed by their perspectives as Native Americans. Find out more
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, November 27th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application. Find out more
December 2020
Four Beautiful Qualities of Heart: An Urban Retreat at NYI
with Narayan Liebenson
Saturday, December 12th, 2020 from 10:00am - 6:00pmSunday, December 13th, 2020 from 10:00am - 4:00pm
In this weekend retreat we will turn our attention to the Buddha's Brahmaviharas or the Four Beautiful Qualities of Heart; loving-kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity. There are specific instructions and practices for cultivating each of the four Brahmaviharas, and over the course of the weekend we will practice with each one. Find out more