Wednesday, October 11th, 2023, from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight is excited to offer a brand new series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
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Thursday, October 12th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
In this workshop, we’ll explore different approaches to socially engaged Buddhism based on a variety of perspectives, including feminism, theories of human flourishing, and radical critiques of our social, economic, and political systems.
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Friday, October 13th, 2023, from 5:30pm – 7:00pm ET
New York Insight is happy and excited to invite you as we gather again to celebrate summer in the great outdoors. Our Community Picnic will once again be in Madison Square Park.
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Saturday, October 14th, 2023 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
Through mindfulness and (self) compassion practice and teachings, we can begin to transform our pain and suffering into an integrated journey of both self healing and awakening. Join Paul Epstein for this half-day online retreat to explore this healing power of mindfulness.
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Sunday, October 15th, 2023 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
The process of walking--outer pilgrimage—often gives rise to insights, healing, and a deep sense of letting go—inner pilgrimage. Join visiting Insight meditation teacher nico hase for a day of outer and inner pilgrimage, and a deepening into the sacred in the everyday of city life.
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Mondays, October 16th - November 13th, 2023 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET
Join New York Insight Teacher Elaine Retholtz for a five week online course on the Three Marks of Existence (impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and non-self), essential Buddhist teachings regarding the nature of experience.
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2023, from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight is excited to offer a brand new series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
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Thursday, October 19th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
In this workshop, we will discuss how the climate crisis is rooted in a broader systemic crisis and identify a variety of dharmic responses to the climate crisis, including forms of non-violent, direct action, community action, and the creation of broad, popular movements.
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Thursday, October 19th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
In this evening of practice, we are invited to return home to our body and mind to discover the wisdom and clarity that can emerge from profound rest. With so many aspects of our lives impacted and disrupted by systems that insist that we be ‘on’ all the time, during this event, we'll create a refuge to nurture and support our nervous systems, and practice ways to deeply rest together and in our daily lives.
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Wednesday, October 25th, 2023, from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight is excited to offer a brand new series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
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Thursday, October 26th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
In this workshop, we’ll explore how Buddhists – both white people and people of color – can respond to the structural roots of racism and the ways in which racism is internalized.
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Postponed
In these times of great change and uncertainty, knowing that refuge is possible and that direct access to it can be found through connection with our own body, heart, and mind is reassuring. In this four-week course, we will explore the powerful and transformative teachings of The Three Jewels and how we can make them accessible and applicable in our daily lives.
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Friday, October 27th, 2023, from 4:30pm – 6:00pm
New York Insight relies on volunteers to create a welcoming and organized atmosphere for all our events. The community needs you to help prepare the online space for our events and support participants and teachers.
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Saturday, October 28th, 2023 from 10:00am - 1:30pm ET
You’re not alone if you struggle with hurt, anger, or resentment as a result of the behavior of others, but you don’t have to wait until a reconciliation or an apology from someone else before making peace with yourself. During this workshop, we’ll explore the nature of difficult relationships, learn to meet our internal experiences without shame, blame, or judgement, and recognize any underlying fears or beliefs that hinder us from finding ease and openness.
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Wednesday, November 1st, 2023, from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight is excited to offer a brand new series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2023, from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight is excited to offer a brand new series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
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Thursday, November 9th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Many people feel that letting go means giving up, resigning, or detaching. But authentic letting go —knowing what you can and can’t control—is wise, compassionate, and sensible. Letting go of what you can’t control alleviates stress, struggle, and tension, and enables you to meet all circumstances with clarity and good sense.
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Saturday, November 11th, 2023 from 11:00am - 4:00pm ET
Our minds tendency is to notice what is missing from our lives leaving us feeling unfulfilled and stuck in a cycle of constant craving. The practice of gratitude counters this tendency helping us to arrive in our lives more completely and connect with the gifts and beauty of life that is always there.
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Sunday, November 12th, 2023 from 10:00am - 5:00pm ET
Having experienced some of the initial benefits of mindfulness, is it now possible to awaken to the deep sense of well-being, creativity, and unconditional love that is our true nature? In this daylong retreat, you will learn contemporary versions of effortless mindfulness that help you live from your heart-mind. This program will be immediately followed by light in-person reception to celebrate the release of Loch's new app, Mindful Glimpses.
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Join us for a captivating evening with Dan Harris, author of the best-selling book "10% Happier," and New York Insight's Guiding Teacher, Leslie Booker. This event is also a benefit celebrating an exciting new chapter for New York Insight.
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2023, from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight is excited to offer a brand new series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
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Saturday, November 18th, 2023 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET
By practicing the art of letting go, you’ll create space for self-acceptance, forgiveness, and emotional healing. Join us for this daylong online program, and explore ways to gently release self-judgment, past regrets, and unhelpful patterns that hinder your self-compassion and belief in yourself, so you can lighten up, enjoy, and appreciate your life.
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Sunday, November 19th, 2023, from 6:00pm - 8:30pm ET
In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s Annual Friendsgiving Celebration.
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023, from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight is excited to offer a brand new series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
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Saturday, December 2nd, 2023 from 10:00am - 5:00pm ET
Holding the uncertainties in our individual lives can be challenging enough, but when we add the uncertainties of society -- war and violence, the climate crisis, political divisions, and many more -- it can be overwhelming. This day of practice will integrate meditation, movement and group discussion to explore the nature of uncertainty and discover how uncertainty itself can become a refuge.
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Monday, December 4th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:15pm ET
In a conversation with Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson, Sharon Salzberg will reflect on the essential dharma teachings in her new book, Finding Your Way, and on how they distill and reflect her many decades as a beloved meditation teacher. There will also be time for Q&A and a short guided meditation as well.
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Tuesday, December 5th, 2023 from 6:30pm - 8:00pm ET
In this online evening talk, and through periods of meditation, experiential learning, and discussion, we will explore how to meet life’s challenges with more awareness, compassion, and ease.
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Revised Dates: Tuesdays, December 5th - 19th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Through talks, reflection, and meditation, we’ll explore how to recognize the skillful even when we find that hard. During this course, we’ll see how we can overcome the cynical approach of always finding the flaws in others. We’ll look at how we can support and encourage the arising of skillful qualities in ourselves and others. And we’ll see how admiration leads to emulation. Perhaps most importantly, we’ll experience the benefits of appreciating skillful qualities in ourselves and others, and how it is the single most important way for us to bring joy and peace into our own lives and into the world.
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2023 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
Are you stressed by your eating and/or other habits of consuming?
Have you noticed that you sometimes manage stress with food and/or other feeds (streaming, gaming, shopping, social media)? Join Mindful Habit Change facilitators Laurence Magro and Nancy Logue for an introduction to a model of sustainable habit change and learn accessible skills for self-care through seasonal stressors and beyond.
Saturday, December 9th, 2023 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET
On this retreat, we will explore what it means to guard oneself with care during great uncertainty and tumult. We will find ways to nourish and sustain ourselves through moment-to-moment awareness, all while letting go of the context and structure of time while experimenting with the retreat form.
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Sunday, December 10th, 2023 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET
Please join us for a memorial celebration to honor longtime community member and New York Insight Co-Founder Sandra Weinberg’s life and legacy.
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Monday, December 11th, 2023, from 7:00pm - 8:45pm ET
This community meets on 2nd Monday evening to meditate, discuss Buddhist teachings, and provide mutual support in applying these practices to the specific challenges of early adulthood.
Thursday, December 14th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
When we get caught up in various forms of craving, desire, and attachment, we are often blocked from deeper connection with ourselves and others in our lives. It can be as if we are living with blinders on. What is the solution? Join Insight meditation teacher Walt Opie for an evening exploring how we get caught by craving, how it blocks us from meaningful connection, and how we can effectively move through it.
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Friday, December 15th, 2023 from 6:30 - 9:00pm ET
Saturday, December 16th, 2023 from 1:00 - 5:30pm ET
There are many ceremonial rituals practiced in Buddhism which can help deepen wisdom, connection and bring individual and collective healing. In this program, we will explore some of the sacred rituals of Buddhism with the intention of noticing those to which we feel connected and would like to cultivate.
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Saturday, December 16th, 2023 from 10:00am to 12:00pm ET
Please join us for a special morning of guided winter walking meditation in the beautiful environs of Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Together we will explore urban nature and our minds.
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Sunday, December 31st, 2023 from 9:00pm - 12:15am ET
New York Insight Meditation Center teachers and staff warmly invite you to our annual New Years Eve gathering and celebration. Join us for a special online evening which will include meditation, chanting, time for silence and for connection, setting intentions for the new year, and our wonderful unique ending in which all are invited to participate.
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Saturday, January 6th, 2024 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
In this half-day retreat, we’ll explore the Buddhist teachings on generosity, and consider for ourselves, creatively, imaginatively, how we might expand and deepen our understanding of it. We will practice sitting meditation, gentle movement, and contemplative journaling. And we will use this time to enter the year feeling rested, clear, inspired and enlivened.
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Mondays, January 8th - 29th, 2024 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
This four-week course is designed to help you become a rock-solid daily meditator. Drawing on the latest psychological research on motivation and habit-building, along with timeless insights from Buddhist psychology, we'll explore how we can commit to sit daily, no matter what, so that we can all experience the benefits of regular meditation.
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Thursdays, January 11th - February 15th, 2024 from 6:30pm - 8:00pm ET
In this six-session course, you will learn the practices of Mindfulness-Based Habit Change, pioneered by psychiatrist, addiction expert, and longtime meditation practitioner Dr. Judson Brewer. This proven method combines combine the tools of mindfulness practice and behavioral science to fundamentally change how we relate to our eating and other consuming behaviors. It is an innovative and compassionate approach that builds a balanced relationship to these everyday activities.
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Fridays, January 12th, 19th, & 26th, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturday, January 13th, 2024 from 10:00am-1:00pm ET
We feel happier when we turn our minds towards gratitude, generosity, and goodwill, and away from entitlement, greed, and hatred. But how do we do that? In this half-day retreat, we'll explore these Buddhist trainings with the joyful, positive intention to free our hearts and minds as we enter a new year.
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Fridays, January 19th, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturday, January 20th, 2024 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET
Is genuine awakening possible? For you? For me? In these times? In this life? In this one-day online retreat, nico hase will delve into adhitthana parami, that quality of the heart that simply doesn’t give up, that keeps you coming back to the path again and again. Which, with consistent practice, leads to the cultivation of peace, joy, and lasting happiness.
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In-Person Course: Tuesdays, January 23rd - March 12th, 2024 | 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET
In-Person Daylong: Sunday, February 25th, 2024 | 9:30am - 5:00pm ET
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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Course: Mondays, January 29th - March 25th, 2024 | 9:15am - 11:45am ET
Daylong: Sunday, March 3rd, 2024 | 9:30am - 5:00pm ET
Is it possible that human relationships are one of the best ways of cultivating mindfulness? This interpersonal mindfulness course explores how to be more fully present with others and oneself. It is designed for graduates of MBSR programs but is suitable for anyone with a mindfulness practice who has experience with or is willing to experience stepping out of silent practice and applying mindfulness in human interaction.
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Fridays, February 2nd, 9th, 16th & 23rd, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Fridays, February 9th, 16th & 23rd, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturday, February 10th, 2024 from 1:00pm - 5:30pm ET
Although we celebrate Valentines Day – the day of love and friendship – in February, many also experience loneliness and social isolation during this time. So this is a great time to connect to sangha, a community of people who together strive to offer support, practice the dharma, and obtain understanding, acceptance, harmony and love.
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Fridays, February 16th & 23rd, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturday, February 17th, 2024 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
What stops us from seeing things as they really are? It's not their remoteness or obscurity — it is the fact that we have unconsciously erected mental filters that prevent us from seeing what’s right in front of our noses. In this half-day workshop we’ll learn to find ways to take off those mental filters, even if just temporarily.
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Sunday, February 18th, 2024 from 2:30pm – 4:30pm ET
Experience the warmth of community with NYI. Come join our Winter Brunch Community Potluck!
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
What can Buddhism (alongside the ancient Confucian and Aristotelian traditions) tell us about the nature of the good life today? This talk and discussion based on Seth Zuihō Segall’s new book, The House We Live In: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism (Equinox, 2023), offers a view of the Buddhist path that is naturalistic, pragmatic, and humanistic. One that is about living the best possible life we can in this, our present lifetime.
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Friday, February 23rd, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2024 from 6:00pm-7:30pm ET
We are living in a world torn by conflict, from wars around the world to hate crimes and political division here at home. During this evening with meditation teachers Sharon Salzberg and Jay Michaelson, we will discuss the difficult (and important) emotions that often arise in “real life” — that is, a life engaged with the world around us. What are the practices that help us find balance so that we are better able to be present for our loved ones and our communities? How do we make room for difficult emotions (despair, fear, powerful concern, anger) so that they inspire and do not devour us?
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Saturday, March 2nd, 2024 from 10:00am-4:00pm
In this day of practice, we explore how to deepen inner contentment through rest, creating space and simplifying our life. When we allow ourselves to find balance and restore, we are empowered to move into the world and bring about greater justice and peace.
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Tuesdays, March 5th-26th, 2024 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Both meditation and creativity involve opening to and allowing what is already present to emerge. Over this four-week course, we will have the opportunity to explore and share how we experience and are inspired by the already present and inherent connection between these two ways of experiencing and opening to life.
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Thursday, March 7th, 2024 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
Join us for a night of community where we’ll learn how love can support personal fulfillment, contribute to a positive and equitable society, and create strong and lasting social bonds. We’ll discover how to recognize our inherent lovingness and to develop it with traditional practices of lovingkindness and insight meditation.
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Saturday, March 9th, 2024 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm ET
If you've ever wondered how to develop the heart-centered aspects of meditation, or have yearned to be more kind-hearted towards yourself or others, this half-day retreat daylong will focus on the timeless teachings of the Brahma-Viharas. These renowned teachings are a training for the heart to reside in its original state of loving awareness and open-heartedness.
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Saturday, March 16th, 2024 from 10:00am-4:00pm ET
Greed, Aversion and Delusion, collectively known as the Three Poisons, are mind states that cloud the heart and mind; separating us from each other. But these energies contain information that can lead us to a deep healing that can mitigate the chaos of the world. Join us for a daylong program exploring and practicing with the Three Poisons.
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Thursday, March 28th, 2024 from 8:00pm ET
Dan Harris, host of the 10% Happier podcast, will be hosting a live taping of his show with guests including Joseph Goldstein, Dr. Mark Epstein and others. The event is a celebration of the 10th anniversary of Dan’s first book, The NY Times bestseller, 10% Happier. It will be an evening of mindfulness and music — all in the style of a late night show. A percentage of the proceeds will go to benefit New York Insight Meditation Center.
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Fridays, March 29th, April 5th, 19th, & 26th, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturday, March 30th, 2024 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
During this workshop, we will learn how to recognize and develop our inherent capacities for love, and notice the obstacles and limiting beliefs that prevent us from opening the heart. And we will connect those capacities of the heart to taking skillful actions for ourselves and the world.
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Mondays, April 1st - May 13th, 2024 from 9:30am-11:30am ET
Vedanā refers to the immediate feeling tone of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral that arises in every moment of contact. In this course we will investigate our personal experience of vedanā, the role it plays in fueling craving and aversion, and the deeply ethical implications it has for our views, biases, and motivations for harm.
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Thursdays, April 4th - 25th, 2024 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Truthfulness (sacca in Pali) helps us to free the mind from distortion, tunnel vision, and detrimental social constructs and paradigms. As LGBTQIA+ people and allies we might internalize these false beliefs that limit our capacity to really be our full selves. Join us for an online course exploring the power of truthfulness, and cultivating its essence proudly, yields clarity, acceptance, freedom and love.
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Friday, April 5th, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturdays, April 6th - 27th, 2024 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
What we often forget is that we have a choice to deepen our experiences of joy, and lessen our experiences of dukkha (suffering, unsatisfactoriness, or stress). In this four-week class we will look at the truth of our experiences, and practice how these truths can move us toward more skillful choices and contentment.
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2024 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
As AI systems weave intricately into our lives and with rising concerns about super-intelligent systems, it becomes imperative to ensure that they not only echo human intelligence but also human virtues. In this talk, we will explore the importance of understanding the values we are individually and collectively optimizing for, emphasizing the pivotal role personal wisdom, compassion, and ethics play in guiding this powerful tool for the greater good.
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Friday, April 19th, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Friday, April 19th, 2024 from 6:00pm -7:30pm
Join us as we celebrate the publication of the book Presence: The Art of Being at Home In Yourself by a long-time meditation teacher Tracy Cochran at the Rubin Museum of Art. We'll discuss teachings from the book and explore how the light of presence can illuminate and expand your life.
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Saturday, April 20th, 2024 from 10:00am to 12:30pm
Please join us in honoring Earth Day with a guided meditative walk along the Hudson River. While practicing walking, standing, and sitting meditation together, we will engage our five senses, notice thoughts, feelings, and reactions, and give ourselves an opportunity to open to our body, heart, and environment.
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