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Online: Listen Deeply and Speak the Truth – An Insight Dialogue Course on Wise Speech

with Bart van Melik

Course: Mondays, October 5th - October 26th, 2020 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET
Daylong: Sunday, November 1st, 2020 from 9:00am - 3:00pm ET

As a community, we'll investigate the Buddha's timeless instructions on Wise Speech with the support of Insight Dialogue, an interpersonal meditation practice that brings together mindfulness and concentration, the wisdom teachings of the Buddha and the power of relationship to support insight into the causes and release of human suffering.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Angela Dews

Tuesday, October 6th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Postponed: Watering the Plants, Weeding the Garden – Maintaining Your Meditation Practice

with Jon Aaron

Wednesdays, October 7th - November 4th, 2020 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

Has your meditation practice been flagging? Are you finding yourself falling into unskillful habits? Give your mindfulness practice a boost with this course for anyone who has recently (or not so recently) completed the 8-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction class and feels “stuck” in their practice.

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik

Friday, October 9th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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.

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Sacred Earth Sangha: Central Park Meet Up

Sunday, October 11th, 2020 from 10:00am-1:00pm

Please join NYI teachers, Sebene Selassie, Lin Gordon, and Jon Aaron for an Sunday morning of teaching, meditation, and discussion as we create a community around deep practice and conscious engagement of the challenges of the climate crisis.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron

Tuesday, October 13th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik

Fridays, October 16th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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.

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Online Community Potluck

Friday, October 16th, 2020 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm

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

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Online: Interpersonal Challenges in a Time of Tumult – A Buddhist & Psychotherapeutic Perspective

with Dr. Pilar Jennings

Saturday, October 17th, 2020 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET

In this workshop, psychoanalyst and Dharma teacher Pilar Jennings will explore the early developmental roots of interpersonal challenges, and bring these insights into conversation with Buddhist wisdom teachings. Together we will explore the key dynamics in our wish to nurture and sustain interpersonal relationships that can withstand the difficulties posed during this unique moment in time.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker

Tuesday, October 20th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Online: Meditation – Tools for Our Times

with Lani Miller

Wednesdays, October 21st - November 11th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

During these challenging times it's good to know that there are tools we can turn to that offer us support and upliftment. In this course we will explore ways our spiritual and meditation practice can be a refuge and offer us the inner nourishment we long for.

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik

Friday, October 23rd, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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.

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Resilience Club: Emotional Resilience for Politically Charged Times – An Online Urban Retreat

with Ralph De La Rosa

Saturday, October 24th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

The 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.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer

Tuesday, October 27th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Online: Awakening Together – The Great Potential of Change

Bart van Melik

Sunday, November 1st, 2020 from 9:00am - 3:00pm ET

For 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.

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Stability in the Storm: IMS invites you to a pre-election Day Meditation Sit

with Sharon Salzberg

Monday, November 2nd, 2020 from 7:00pm – 8:00pm

On 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.

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Online: Living a Principled Life

with Bhante Pamutto

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

How 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.

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, November 6th - November 27th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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.

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Online: A Question of Identity

with Martine Batchelor

Saturday, November 7th, 2020 from 9:00am - 12:00pm ET

During 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.

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Online: Metta-Vipassana – Integrating the Four Foundations of Mindfulness with Heart Practices

with Dave Smith

Sunday, November 8th, 2020 from 10:00am - 12:00pm

Vipassana 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.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron

Tuesday, November 10th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, November 13th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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.

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Online: Metaphors of Mindfulness

with Andrew Olendzki

Saturday, November 14th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

In 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.

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Online: Practice in Challenging Times

with Mark Coleman

Sunday, November 15th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

How 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.

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Online: Thanksgiving Community Potluck

Sunday, November 15th, 2020 from 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Join the New York Insight community as we continue our tradition of our lovely yearly Thanksgiving gatherings. It will be a virtual event this year and there will not be the usual actual table filled with the Thanksgiving treats but we will share in other lovely ways this year and "feast on" each other's company.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker

Tuesday, November 17th, 2020 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Friday, November 20th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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.

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Online: Cultivating Thanksgiving

with Bonnie Duran, Ramona Peters and Jeff Haozous

Saturday, November 21st, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

Giving 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.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer

Tuesday, November 24th, 2020 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Friday, November 27th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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.

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Online: Developing (Not Destroying) the Spiritual Faculties

with Venerable Santi

Tuesday, December 1st, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Join us for an evening dharma talk with Buddhist Insights and Buddhist monastic Venerable Santi exploring the spiritual faculties that can propel us to deep and lasting awakening, and how these qualities can be carefully seeded, watered, and cultivated for the benefit of ourselves and all living beings.

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Online: MWe and the Integration of Identity

with Dan Siegel

Thursday, December 3rd, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Who you are is both an internal (Me) and an interconnected (We) self that shapes your identity and sense of belonging. But how can you be both within the body and between the body and in relationship to people and the planet? In this talk we will explore how you can combine an inner “Me” and an inter “We” to become a whole integrated self – a MWe!

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, December 4th - December 18th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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.

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Online: The Profound and the Profane – Bringing the Whole of Life into the Alchemy of our Practice

with Martin Aylward

Saturday, December 5th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

Join Martin Aylward to give some close and caring attention together to life, love and letting go. We’ll invoke the radical freeness to which our practice invites us; explore how to meet and metabolise the habit patterns that get in our way, and feel our way into meeting the uncertainties and complexities of our lives more fluidly, fearlessly and freely.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Booker Leslie

Tuesday, December 8th, 2020 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Friday, December 11th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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.

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Online Community Potluck

Friday, December 11th, 2020 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”.

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How to Practice at a Time Like This: An Online Urban Retreat

with Narayan Liebenson

Saturday, December 12th, 2020 from 9:00am - 6:00pm ET
Sunday, December 13th, 2020 from 9:00am - 3:00pm ET

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.

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Online Sacred Earth Sangha: Being a Sacred Warrior – Lessons from Standing Rock

with Thanissara

Monday, December 14th, 2020 from 7:00pm-8:30pm ET

The NYI Sacred Earth Sangha is a community formed around deep practice and conscious engagement of the challenges of the climate crisis. For this session of the SES we are delighted to host Thanissara, who’s deeply engaged in activism informed by decades of Buddhist practice and teaching, her time at Standing Rock, and with Baba Mandaza Kandemwa of Zimbabwe.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer

Tuesday, December 15th, 2020 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Friday, December 18th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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.

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Online: Beginner’s Meditation Workshop

with Bart van Melik

Saturday, December 19th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm

This comprehensive three-hour workshop will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis is placed on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Elaine Retholtz

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020 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 Angela Dews

Tuesday, December 29th, 2020 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: Principles of Causality

with Bhante Suddhāso

Tuesday, January 5th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

The core aspect of the Buddha's awakening was the realization that all phenomena are governed by causality. Join Bhante Suddhāso for an online talk exploring the basic principles of causality in the Buddhist framework and how to apply them to our practice.

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From ME to WE: An Online Course on the Six Paramitas

with Susan Piver & David Nichtern

Tuesdays, January 5th-February 9th, 2021 from 7:00-9:00pm ET

Join Buddhist teacher and Emmy-award winning musician, David Nichtern and New York Times best-selling author and founder of the Open Heart Project, Susan Piver for a special online course series on cultivating the transcendent qualities known as the Six Paramitas: Generosity, Discipline, Patience, Exertion, Meditation, & Wisdom.

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Monthly Online Community Potluck

Friday, January 8th, 2021 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm

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: Reclaiming the Sacred

with Scott Tusa

Saturday, January 9th, 2021 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm ET

When there's truth, when there's something profound, we can sense the sacred. Though we can feel it, sacredness can sometimes be this thing that we put outside of ourselves, which is impressive and worthy of our time and attention. In this halfway workshop, we will explore bringing the sacred more into our lives via dharma talks, meditation, and discussion.

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Online: A Journey Inward and Finding Refuge

with Tuere Sala

Sunday, January 10th, 2021 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET

The journey inward towards awakening asks more of us than force of will. It is a gradual unfolding of understanding and equanimity. This evening will be both an introduction and an exploration into what is possible when we find a genuine refuge.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller

Tuesday, January 12th, 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 Jon Aaron

Tuesday, January 19th, 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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Getting Over Your Self: A Buddhist Therapist’s Path to Freedom

A Conversation with Mark Epstein and Amy Gross

Saturday, January 23rd, 2021 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm ET

Join Mark Epstein and Amy Gross as they sit down together again for an online conversation about Mark’s evolving understanding of how therapy and Buddhism combine to untangle the tangle of self and suffering. What can therapy offer that Buddhism needs?

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Wildency de Fátima Jury

Tuesday, January 26th, 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: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz

Orientation: Friday, January 22nd, 2021 from 9:30am - 12:00pm ET
Course: Fridays, January 29th - March 19th, 2021 from 9:30am - 12:00pm ET
Daylong: Saturday, March 6th, 2021 from 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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Online: New York Insight Event Volunteer Training

Friday, January 29th, 2021 from 6:00pm – 7:30pm

New York Insight relies on volunteers to create a welcome and organized atmosphere for all our events. The center needs you to help prepare the online space for our events and support participants and teachers.

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Online: Persistence in the Face of Adversity

with Ayyā Somā

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

The Buddha encourages practitioners to contemplate the source of our discomfort, no matter its form. Once we truly understand the nature of pain, loss, oppression, and despair, we can make the appropriate response and be free from the suffering they cause.

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Online: The Joy of Meditation – Vipassana and the Whole Nine Yards

with Jon Aaron

Thursdays, February 4th - March 25th, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

The variety of meditation practices found in Buddhism can lead to confusion and doubt, or to staying on the surface level in our practice as a result of switching around so much. This course will spend time investigating our own experience with each of these practices and sharing the fruit of wisdom and compassion that comes of this.

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Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron

Orientation: Thursday, January 21st, 2021 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET
Course: Thursdays, February 4th - March 25th, 2021 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET
Daylong: Sunday, March 14th, 2021 from 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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Online: Using Inquiry and Reflection in Meditation Practice

with Oren Jay Sofer

Saturday, February 6th, 2021 from 1:00pm - 4:30pm ET

The Buddhist tradition includes a wide range of practices beyond formal meditation training exercises. In this half-day session, we’ll explore core practices for inquiry and reflection, using the thought and recollection skillfully to enhance understanding and apply Dharma principles to life.

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Online: Life and Death – Going Forward

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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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer

Tuesday, February 9th, 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 Online Community Potluck

Friday, February 12th, 2021 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm

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 Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller

Tuesday, February 16th, 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: Cultivating Peace Within You in a Chaotic World

with Bhante Buddharakkhita

Saturday, February 20th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

The world is on fire. Many countries are experiencing injustice, political unrest and a COVID-19 pandemic. How can you find balance and cultivate peace within you? The online retreat will include guided mindfulness and equanimity meditation, Dhamma talk, and a question and answer session.

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Online: Planting the Seeds of Peace and Happiness – A Beginner’s Meditation Workshop

with Lani Miller

Sunday, February 21st, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

Have you been wanting to learn how to meditate? Or perhaps looking for a way to refresh or renew your existing practice? This three hour comprehensive workshop includes instructions for experiential meditation practice with guidance from a New York Insight teacher, useful information for developing and continuing a meditation practice with plenty of time for sharing and Q & A.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker

Tuesday, February 23rd, 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 Urban Retreat: Sweeping Our Temple – Remembering Kind Awareness

with Leslie Booker & Bart van Melik

Saturday February 27th, 2021 | 9:00 am - 5:00pm ET
Sunday, February 28th, 2021 | 9:00am - 3:00pm ET

Through the Buddha's teachings on the 5 Spiritual Powers, (Faith, Energy, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom), we will train our ability to bear witness to personal and social pains and immerse ourselves in heart qualities inviting us to dance, and vacuum, in our temple we call home.

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Online: The Radiant Mind

with Bhante Suddhāso

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Buddhist practice offers us the tools to free the mind from the constraints of discontent, irritation, and confusion—and when the mind is well liberated from these unwholesome states of mind, even temporarily, the path to true happiness becomes clear.

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Online: MBSR Alumni Daylong

with Elaine Retholtz

Saturday, March 6th, 2021 from 9:30am - 5:00pm ET

Have you taken an MBSR course? Would you like to spend time practicing in community with support of a teacher to help you refine your skills of mindfulness? This MBSR Daylong is for you! Practicing with other MBSR alumni and those currently taking the course, you will have a day to focus on mindfulness, explore how it is manifesting in your life now, and build some momentum to continue these practices for time to come.

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Online Sacred Earth Sangha: Climate Crisis, Trauma Healing and Collective Action

with Sensei Kritee Kanko, PhD

Monday, March 8th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

In this gathering, Kritee will dispel what, in her view, are myths around climate science that are common in the activist as well as Buddhist communities. We will then take a deep hard look at the scale of trauma we already face individually and collectively. Last but not the least, Kritee will share her understanding of how we can take meaningful and strategic collective actions for racial healing and putting down the fires of climate crisis.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron

Tuesday, March 9th, 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: Truth, Honesty and Dharma 

with Matthew Brensilver

Friday, March 12th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Dharma practice is a form of rigorous honesty, an attempt to resist self-deception, and a commitment to perceive experience in novel ways. In this evening together, we will explore the ways that the pursuit of truth animates Buddhist practice.

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Mindfulness & Ethical Evolution: A Daylong Online Retreat

with Matthew Brensilver

Saturday, March 13th, 2021 from 9:30am - 4:00pm ET

In this daylong, we’ll examine the process – in our direct experience – of maturing our ethical commitments. The process is facilitated by the perception of non-separation, an intimacy with the experience of suffering, a willingness to grieve, a spirit of renunciation and the courage to relinquish familiar understandings of ourselves.

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Buddha Statue

Online: Together Under the Bodhi Tree

with Bart van Melik

Mondays, March 8th - March 29th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET

If you've never read a Buddhist text before or you're looking to refine your understanding of the teachings, this four week course with Bart van Melik is a wonderful way to deepen your connection with this timeless wisdom.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Angela Dews

Tuesday, March 16th, 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 Online Community Potluck

Friday, March 19th, 2021 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm

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: Skillful Pleasure

with Peter Doobinin

Saturday, March 20th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm 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: Facing Aging and Fear with Love and Wisdom

with Amy Selzer, Nancy Glimm, Rosemary Blake

Sunday, March 21st, 2021 | 10:00am - 4:00pm ET

In our Aging As A Spiritual Practice daylong, yogis will explore their fears around aging through the teachings of the Buddha on Impermanence, holding what arises with the Brahma Viharas, and recognizing the wisdom that arises through the cultivation of these practices. This daylong will include meditation, exercises and reflections, dharma talks, as well as small and large group discussions.

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Buddha Statue

Online: Together Under the Bodhi Tree

with Bart van Melik

Mondays, March 8th - March 29th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET

If you've never read a Buddhist text before or you're looking to refine your understanding of the teachings, this four week course with Bart van Melik is a wonderful way to deepen your connection with this timeless wisdom.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer

Tuesday, March 23rd, 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: Town Hall and Community Gathering

Wednesday, March 24th, 2021 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Join us for a special town hall and community gathering as we reunite as a community, introduce the Center's new Executive Director, and review the struggles and victories experienced by our community over the past year.

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Online: Wisdom and Compassion on the Path of Recovery

with Kevin Griffin and Patricia Johnson

Saturday, March 27th, 2021 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

On this half-day retreat we will explore how Buddhist insight teachings and heart practices can support people in recovery. There will be meditation instruction, dharma talks, and opportunities for questions and discussion.

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Buddha Statue

Online: Together Under the Bodhi Tree

with Bart van Melik

Mondays, March 8th - March 29th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET

If you've never read a Buddhist text before or you're looking to refine your understanding of the teachings, this four week course with Bart van Melik is a wonderful way to deepen your connection with this timeless wisdom.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker

Tuesday, March 30th, 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: The Potential of Human Relatedness on a Whole-Life Path

with Gregory Kramer and Peace Twesigye

Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 from 11:00am - 5:00pm ET

Join us in a day of relational meditation through Insight Dialogue practice to contemplate how we might meet each moment as embodied beings in relationship to a whole. Turning toward our shared human experience, what is our responsibility to each other and the world as we engage a wholesome path of practice?

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Online: Liberation of the Heart

with Bhante Sumano

Tuesday April 6th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Join Buddhist monk Bhante Sumano for a discussion of five common obstacles to meditation practice and the antidotes we can skillfully apply in response.

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Online: Monthly Community Potluck

Friday, April 9th, 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 Sacred Earth Sangha

with Sebene Selassie, Lin Wang Gordon, and Jon Aaron

Monday, April 12th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

The NYI Sacred Earth Sangha is a community formed around deep practice and conscious engagement of the challenges of the climate crisis.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Wildecy de Fátima Jury

Tuesday, April 13th, 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: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron

Course: Thursdays, April 15 - June 3, 2021 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Daylong: Saturday, May 22, 2021 from 9:30am - 5:00pm

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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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Tushar D. Bhagat

Course: Saturdays, April 17th - June 19th, 2021 | 9:30am - 12:00pm ET
Daylong: Saturday, May 22nd, 2021 | 9:00am - 4:30pm 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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Online: Meditating With the Elements – A Weekend Workshop 

with Bodhipaksa

Saturday, April 17th and Sunday, April 18th, 2021 from 9:30am - 1:00pm ET

On this weekend workshop Bodhipaksa offers us a rare opportunity to explore the Six Element Practice — a beautiful form of insight meditation taught by the Buddha himself. This reflective practice gently encourages us to question limited assumptions we hold about who and what we are, leading us toward a more open, expansive sense of ourselves. It helps us to connect the world within and the world outside, so we can recognize that they are in reality one non-dual reality.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron

Tuesday, April 20th, 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: What is Nirvana?

with Tuere Sala

Saturday, April 24th 2021 from 9:00am - 4:00pm ET

Have you ever wondered, "What is nirvana?" Is it something concrete or some elusive concept about the afterlife? Is nirvana, sometimes called awakening, even possible? During this daylong, we will explore this nirvana by looking deeper at the 3rd Noble Truth. We will look at why it is so important in today’s urban world to practice towards awakening.

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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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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.

Find out more

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer

Tuesday, June 8th, 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: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz

Course: Thursdays, June 10th - July 29th, 2021 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET
Daylong: Sunday, July 18th, 2021 from 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.

Find out more

Online Monthly Community Potluck

Friday, June 11th, 2021 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET

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: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Wildecy de Fátima Jury

Tuesday, June 15th, 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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From Shame to Pride: An Online LGBTQIA Pride Event

with Bhante Suddhaso

Sunday, June 20th, 2021 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET

In celebration of LGBTQ Pride Month, Buddhist monk Bhante Suddhaso will share some reflections on how to recognize and uproot shame while sowing seeds of pride and appreciation for our wholesome qualities of mind.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer

Tuesday, June 22nd, 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: Insight 101 – Six Week Beginner’s Course

with Lani Miller

Wednesdays, June 23rd - July 28th, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

If you've been wanting to learn how to meditate or refresh and renew the meditation practice you already have, we invite you to join this six-week meditation course to explore the practice of Insight (Vipassana) meditation in a warm, supportive environment.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Angela Dews

Tuesday, June 29th, 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 Brian Simmons

Tuesday, July 6th, 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: Mindful Self-Compassion

with Bodhipaksa

Thursdays, July 8th - July 29th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

Drawing on lessons from life, the Buddhist tradition, and neuroscience, Bodhipaksa offers a four-step approach to the practice of self-compassion during this special four-week online course to sustain us during times of suffering and help us to deepen the compassion we offer not just to ourselves, but to others as well.

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Online: Investigating the Three Characteristics of Existence

with Elaine Retholtz

Mondays, July 12th - August 9th, 2021 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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Online: Creating a Life of Integrity – A Year of Wholehearted Practice

with Joseph Goldstein and Gail Stark

Tuesday, July 13th, 2021 from 7:00pm-8:30pm ET 

Join Joseph Goldstein and Gail Stark for a free online evening in conclusion of their yearlong course as they discuss the 10 Paramis, talk about their view of the process a year later, and hear students ask questions and share their insights after a year of wholehearted practice.

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Online: New York Insight Event Volunteer Training

Friday, July 16th, 2021 from 6:30pm – 7:45pm, ET

New York Insight relies on volunteers to create a welcome and organized atmosphere for all our events. The center needs you to help prepare the online space for our events and support participants and teachers.

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Online: The Gradual Teaching

with Bhante Suddhaso

Sunday, July 18th, 2021 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET

Join Buddhist monk Bhante Suddhaso for a discussion of the step-by-step path the Buddha laid for spiritual growth, a path that leads onwards to the highest goal.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Wildecy de Fatima Jury

Tuesday, July 20th, 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: A Path of Devotion

with Oren Jay Sofer

Friday, July 23rd, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

A core part of the Noble Eightfold Path is cultivating a heart that is enriched by qualities like faith, confidence, and devotion. How can we understand these qualities and their relevance on the path in modern life today? What resources do we have to access a meaningful connection with them in our lives? Join author and meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer for this evening of practice and exploration.

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  • New York Insight Meditation Center
    28 West 27th Street, 10th Floor
    New York, NY 10001
    Between Broadway & 6th Avenue
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