Events for May 2019

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Loving Kindness Meditation

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

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CLIMATE CRISIS: What can we do together? An NYI Community Meeting

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SOS – Sitting on Sunday

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Race, Unconscious Bias & Mindfulness

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CANCELLED: A Celebration of Mother Earth

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

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Monthly Community Potluck

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Day of Insight: A Daylong Meditation Retreat

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

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Finding Ourselves and Losing Ourselves

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Spiritual Bypassing: When We Do Not Want to Look Honestly

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Loving Kindness Meditation

with Gary Singer

Sunday, April 28th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

Join us for this daylong retreat where we will cultivate our natural capacity for an open and loving heart towards ourselves and all other beings.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Booker Leslie and Janusz Welin

Tuesday, April 30th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.

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CLIMATE CRISIS: What can we do together? An NYI Community Meeting

Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Please join NYI president Tom Carling, teacher Sebene Selassie, and Extinction Rebellion leader Bill Beckler, for an evening of meditation, presentations, and discussion as we explore your ideas and consider how NYI can best support our individual and collective practices in the midst of this new reality.

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SOS – Sitting on Sunday

with Angela Dews

Sunday, May 5, 2019 from 10:00am-12:00pm

These regularly scheduled mornings begin with a guided meditation, followed by standing or walking meditation. There is a Dharma talk and a question and answer period where attendees can inquire about practice.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller and Brian Simmons

Tuesday, May 7th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz

Fridays, May 10th - June 28th, 2019 from 9:30am-12pm

MBSR has helped thousands of people decrease the effects of stress in their lives, allowing them to reduce the symptoms of both physical and psychological problems, and to live their lives with more ease, vitality, and enjoyment.

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Race, Unconscious Bias & Mindfulness

with Sebene Selassie

Friday, May 10th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm

During this evening we will explore how mindfulness and the teachings of Buddhism can help us bring awareness and clarity to the constructs & biases around race that exist in society and within each of us (either as external racism or as internalized oppression), so that we can live with more love, wisdom and compassion.

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Alumni Daylong

with Jon Aaron

Saturday, May 11th, 2019 from 9:30am – 5:00pm

Join us for a daylong program to practice with other MBSR alumni and those currently taking the course. You will have a day to focus on mindfulness, what it looks in your life now, and build some momentum to continue these practices for time to come.

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CANCELLED: A Celebration of Mother Earth

with Elizabeth J. Coleman

Sunday, May 12th, 2019 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Join Elizabeth J. Coleman, a poet, public interest attorney, environmental activist, and teacher of mindfulness for a day of celebration reading poems from her new book, HERE: Poems for the Planet, an international contemporary poetry anthology for our planet. Readings will be interspersed with guided meditations and discussion of mindful activism.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Brian Simmons and Gary Singer

Tuesday, May 14th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.

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Monthly Community Potluck

Friday, May 17th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm

All are welcome! In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s Monthly Sangha Potluck. Please bring a vegetarian or vegan offering to add to our shared meal.

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Awakening to the Climate Emergency: A Wesak Observance

Saturday, May 18th, 2019 from 11:30am-5:00pm

In connection with the Call to Declare Climate Emergency and timed with Wesak, the annual observance of the Buddha’s Awakening, we invite you to come together as a sangha for a live-stream webinar featuring teachers such as Kittisaro and Thanissara followed by a community potluck.

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Day of Insight: A Daylong Meditation Retreat

with Rosemary Blake and Nancy Glimm

Sunday, May 19th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

The retreat day will be one of noble silence for those who want to deepen their practice. It will include sitting, walking, and select inspirational readings for contemplation. One-on-one meetings with the teacher will also be available.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Angela Dews and Jon Aaron

Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.

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Finding Ourselves and Losing Ourselves

with Dr. Stephen Fulder

Friday, May 24th, 2019 from 6:30pm to 9:00pm

As we move out of automatic living and start to question and explore who or what we are, we open a Pandora's Box and our life can get dramatically more deep and interesting, and sometimes more disturbing. We find ourselves in a world of paradox, mystery, and yet unimagined freedom.

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Equanimity: Dancing with the Unpredictability of Life

with Dr. Stephen Fulder

Saturday, May 25th, 2019 | 10:00am to 4:30pm

In this daylong program, we will examine equanimity, how to recognize and appreciate it, and how it can be developed. We will also explore how we can avoid getting upset and overwhelmed by circumstances, such as conflict, injustice, and suffering.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Elaine Retholtz and Janusz Welin

Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.

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Spiritual Bypassing: When We Do Not Want to Look Honestly

with Bhante Sukhacitto

Friday, May 31st, 2019 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Join Theravadan monk Bhante Sukhacitto for an evening exploring how can we use meditation practice to integrate meditation and insight more fully into our lives, instead of using it as a way to escape our problems and challenges in order to experience quiet and peace.

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