In-Person and Online: You Are the Path – Living a Good Life in Bad Times
with Tracy Cochran
Saturday, June 14th, 2025 | 10:00am – 1:00pm ET
In-Person Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor
Life is always hard, but these times feel especially uncertain and the stakes feel very high.
How can we live a truly good life now? What should we do and how should we do it? Fortunately, the Buddha offers us a guide rope. The Eightfold path of the Buddha braids together practices for body, heart, and mind.
Confused about how to live? The Buddha offers us a way into our own deepest wisdom. Lost in thought or full of difficult feelings? Focus on what you are doing. Following this guide rope, our own lives become a way of awakening.
Over the course of this half-day retreat, we’ll explore the whole of the path with a special emphasis on finding our own deepest insights and experiences. Together we’ll combine meditation with mindful writing exercises designed to help us find our own way. Special emphasis will be given to “beginning the path,” and our own moments of clarity and experiments in living.
With time for meditation and discussion, we’ll learn how to take root in our own wisdom and make our actual lives our path.
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.)
If you are registering via a mobile device such as a phone or tablet, you can scroll right and left and up and down within the below form if it is partially obscured or cut off.
CLICK HERE to open the registration form in a new browser window.
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)
Tracy Cochran
Tracy Cochran is an editor of Parabola magazine. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Boston Review, O: The Oprah Magazine, New York Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Psychology Today, and other publications. Her stories have been included in anthologies including The Best Spiritual Writing series; Writing for Their Lives; and Sacred Voices: Essential Women’s Wisdom Through the Ages. In addition to working in publishing and in the film industry, she is certified as a Community Dharma Leader by the Spirit Rock Meditation Center, teaching mindfulness meditation and mindful writing retreats in the greater New York area.