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Online: Unlocking The Trap of Pain – Exploring Gentle Practices to Live with Ease

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Online: Embodying Love – The Four Divine Abodes and Forgiveness

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Well-Being is a Skill: An Online Benefit for New York Insight

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Online: Life and Death – Going Forward

Online: Unlocking The Trap of Pain – Exploring Gentle Practices to Live with Ease

with Joan Griffiths Vega

Sunday, April 25th, Wednesday, April 28th, Sunday May 2nd, 2021 from 10:30am - 12:30pm ET each day

Acute or chronic pain needs a multifaceted approach to minimize its domination. In our time together we will explore the ways to turn towards the pain with kindness and curiosity to reduce the pain. When acceptance of pain is present, the exhausting war stops. New choices arise.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer

Tuesday, April 27th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.

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Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, April 9th - April 30th from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.

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Karma-Dāna Sangha 

Recurring

Last Friday of the Month from 6:00 - 7:30 PM ET

The Karma-Dāna Sangha is a spiritual-friends group organized to foster connection and relationship among teachers, volunteers, staff, and all those who contribute their time and energy to New York Insight Meditation Center.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Angela Dews

Tuesday, May 4th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.

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Online: Continuity of Awareness and the Art of Living Meaningfully

with Alexis Santos & Susa Talan

Saturday, May 8th, 2021 from 10:00am - 5:00pm ET

Inspired by the teachings of Theravādin Buddhist monk, Sayadaw U Tejaniya, during this daylong retreat we will explore the practice of meditation as a foundation for developing the heart and mind. Together we’ll practice cultivating moment by moment awareness, in a relaxed and natural way--leading us to an embodied sense of clarity, resilience and connection.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller

Tuesday, May 11th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.

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Monthly Community Potluck

Friday, May 15th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm

All are welcome! In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.

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Online: Transcending Gender

with Ayyā Somā

Sunday, May 16th, 2021 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET

Buddhist monk Ayyā Somā will lead us in an exploration of how the Buddha's teachings encourage us to investigate gender—and all identities—and how to ultimately transcend it.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer

Tuesday, May 18th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.

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Well-Being is a Skill: An Online Benefit for New York Insight

with Richard Davidson

Thursday, May 20th 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Join renowned author and neuroscientist Richard Davidson for an online evening benefit event for New York Insight. Together we will discuss the interaction between dharma and scientific evidence that suggests we can change our brains by transforming our minds and cultivate habits of mind that will improve our well-being and the world.

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Online: Dukkha and the End of Dukkha – Transforming Suffering and Reactivity

with Donald Rothberg

Saturday, May 22nd, 2021 from 10:00am - 5:00pm ET

In this daylong retreat, we will explore the Buddha’s teachings on suffering, the Four Noble Truths, Dependent Origination, and the Two Arrows. We will learn ways to study and implement these teachings both in formal meditation and in everyday life, including in the context of the pandemic and contemporary “social dukkha.”

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Online: ¡Únicamente Latinx! Medio dia de retiro en meditación

with Nakawe Cuebas Berrios and Isabel Adon

Sunday, May 23rd, 2021 from 10:00am - 2:00pm ET

Únase a nosotros en un retiro de medio día para reflexionar en lo que significa crear una sangha con otros meditadores latinos / Latinx y profundizar en nuestras prácticas espirituales, las cuales pueden fortalecernos para compartir con nuestras familias, unirnos a movimientos sociales y otras comunidades.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker

Tuesday, May 25th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Elaine Retholtz

Tuesday, June 1st, 2021 on 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.

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Online: The Four Seals of Dharma

with Scott Tusa

Wednesdays, June 2nd-23rd, 2021 from 7:30pm - 9:00pm ET

In this four-week online course led by Buddhist teacher Scott Tusa, we will explore the Buddha's four seals together through periods of teaching, meditation, and discussion.

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Online: Skillful Pleasure

with Peter Doobinin

Thursdays, June 3rd-24th from 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET

As the Buddha came to discover, we have to learn to establish a skillful relationship to pleasure if dharma practice is going to thrive and if we’re going to know happiness in life. In this three-hour class, we’ll learn about skillful pleasure, what it is, how we cultivate it, and why there’s such great benefit in doing so.

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Online: Life and Death – Going Forward

Recurring
with Jon Aaron, Rosemary Blake, Nancy Glimm and Amy Selzer

Sunday, February 7th, Saturday, June 5th, Sunday, September 12th, Saturday, December 4th, 2021 from 10:00am – 4:00pm ET

These four quarterly, daylong retreats will include meditation, understanding and preparing for death through the Buddha’s teachings, small and large group reflections, and deepening our connection to one another through sangha, moving us toward living life more fully.

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Location & Contact

  • New York Insight Meditation Center
    28 West 27th Street, 10th Floor
    New York, NY 10001
    Between Broadway & 6th Avenue
    If front door of building is locked, ring button #27.

  • The best way to reach us is by email.
    General Questions: info@nyimc.org
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