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: New York Insight’s Annual New Year’s Eve Gathering and Celebration
with New York Insight Teachers
Thursday, December 31st, 2020 from 8:45pm - 12:15am ET
This evening will include meditation, chanting, time to connect, time to set intentions for the new year, a special remembrance, ceremony, and our wonderful "surprise" ending in which all are invited to participate.
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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: Together Under the Bodhi Tree – A Short Course on the Buddha’s Teachings
with Bart van Melik
Mondays January 11th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET
Over the course of four evenings we will contemplate the Buddha’s teachings on Awareness, Nature, and Community.
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Online Sacred Earth Sangha: The Promise and Power of Faith-Led Environmental Movements
with Dekila Chungyalpa
Monday, January 11th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Join us for a rare evening to learn from activist Dekila Chungyalpa's breadth and depth of knowledge from the frontline of climate crisis, and the wisdom of how we embody compassion as we engage in this work.
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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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, January 15th, 2021 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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Online: The Dharma of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Reflections on Healing from the Amputated S/self
with Pamela Ayo Yetunde & Lama Dawa Tarchin Phillips
Saturday, January 16th, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:30pm ET
In this MLK Day-inspired retreat, Lama Dawa Tarchin Phillips and Community Dharma Leader Pamela Ayo Yetunde will offer dharma reflections on MLK's concept of the Beloved Community, the role of sangha in healing from the Amputated S/self, and Lovingkindness Meditation.
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Online: Together Under the Bodhi Tree – A Short Course on the Buddha’s Teachings
with Bart van Melik
Monday January 18th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET
Over the course of four evenings we will contemplate the Buddha’s teachings on Awareness, Nature, and Community.
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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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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, January 22nd, 2021 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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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: Together Under the Bodhi Tree – A Short Course on the Buddha’s Teachings
with Bart van Melik
Mondays January 25th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET
Over the course of four evenings we will contemplate the Buddha’s teachings on Awareness, Nature, and Community.
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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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, January 29th, 2021 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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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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, February 5th - February 26th, 2021 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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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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Radical Honesty in the Face of Crisis: An Online Evening with Brother Man
Monday, February 8th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Join Sacred Earth Sangha guest teacher Brother Man for an evening workshop on fostering embodied communities of resilience to evolve consciousness and shift culture.
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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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Online: Anukampa – The Buddha’s Motivating Force for Care and Compassion-in-Action
with Gil Fronsdal
Wednesday, February 10th, 2021 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET
This evening talk and meditation will consider the difference between the Buddha's teachings on karuna ("compassion") and anukampa ("care"), including why “care” might be a more fundamental emotion and motivation than compassion for a life devoted to the welfare and benefit of the world.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, February 12th, 2021 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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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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, February 19th, 2021 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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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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, February 26th, 2021 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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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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, March 5th - March 26th, 2021 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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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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, March 12th, 2021 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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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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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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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, March 19th, 2021 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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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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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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Insight Meditation 101 – A Six-Week Beginners Course
with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, March 29th - May 10th, 2021 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET
This course will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis is placed on the formal practices of sitting and walking meditation and on developing mindfulness in daily life.
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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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday April 2nd, 2021 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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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: 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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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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Postponed: Cultivating Climate Resilience – Transforming Difficult Emotions into Compassion and Wisdom
with Lin Wang Gordon
Saturday, April 10th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
Due to unforeseen circumstances this program is postponed and will be rescheduled for a future date.
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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: Embodying Love – The Four Divine Abodes and Forgiveness
with Jon Aaron
Thursdays, April 29th, 2021 - June 3rd, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET
Mindful cultivation through formal practice of the boundless qualities of lovingkindness, compassion, resonant joy and equanimity can open the lens of wisdom and break through the barriers which have accumulated over lifetimes.
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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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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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, May 7th - May 28th, 2021 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.
Find out moreOnline: 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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Sacred Earth Sangha in Central Park
Saturday, May 8th, 2021 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET
For this month's Sacred Earth Sangha meeting, we will have a special gathering in Central Park to explore Honoring Native Land.
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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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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, May 14th, 2021 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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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: Obstacles to Practice – Exploring the Five Hindrances
with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, May 17th - June 21st from 9:30am - 11:30am ET
This course will offer an opportunity to explore how to practice with and understand the energies of the Five Hindrances in our formal meditation practice as well as in our daily lives so that they can be skillfully abandoned.
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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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, May 21st, 2021 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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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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, May 28th, 2021 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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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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, June 4th - June 25th, 2021 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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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.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, June 11th, 2021 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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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: Somatically Sensing – Knowing Thoughts and Emotions through Sensations
with Jill Satterfield
Saturday, June 12th, 2021 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm ET
Join Jill Satterfield for an online program exploring the physical embodiment of thoughts and feelings and how we can respond without getting caught up in a story or discursive thinking.
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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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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, June 18th, 2021 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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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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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, June 25th, 2021 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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The Unreliability of Identity, and the Undeniability of its Impact: A NYI Pride Event
with Leslie Booker and René Rivera
Monday, June 28th, 2021 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight and East Bay Meditation Center come together for a pride month online dharma dialog exploring the paradox of identity through a queer eye on the Buddha's teachings on the five aggregates. All friends and allies are invited to join this Insight OUT Refuge event.
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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.
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, July 2nd - July 30th, 2021 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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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: Abundant, Exalted, Immeasurable – An Evening for Cultivating Metta
with Devon Hase
Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm ET
The liberative potential of kindness and care is available in every moment. Join us for an evening of metta practice and discussion, cultivating this unconditional and boundless quality of the heart.
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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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, July 9th, 2021 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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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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Real Life: A Discussion with Sharon Salzberg
Wednesday, July 14th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
In this special members only event, meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg will join us for an online dialogue on the topic of her upcoming book, "Real Life".
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, July 16th, 2021 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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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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Online: The Heart of Devotion
with Oren Jay Sofer
Saturday, July 24th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:30pm ET
What role does devotion play on the Buddhist path? How can we understand and cultivate this quality in a direct and meaningful way in our lives? This half-day program will explore these and other questions related to devotion and its role in contemplative practice.
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Community Picnic
Sunday, July 25th, 2021 from 4:00pm - 6:00pm ET
New York Insight is happy and excited to invite you to celebrate summer in the great outdoors for a community picnic in Madison Square Park.
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Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Nakawe Cuebas Berrios
Tuesday, July 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, July 30th, 2021 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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Postponed: Do Dharma and Abolition Go Together? Maybe…?
with karen g. williams, Peace Twesigye, and Kiki Williams
Friday, July 30th, 2021 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
Saturday, July 31st, 2021 from 11:00am - 5:00pm ET
Sunday, August 1st, 2021 from 11:00am - 1:00pm ET (optional)
Do to unforeseen circumstances, this program will be postponed to a later date. We will be in touch with all program registrants to give a refund or credit. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Amy Selzer
Tuesday, August 3rd, 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: Meditation – Tools for Our Times
with Lani Miller
Wednesdays, August 4th-25th, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:00pm 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: Healing America’s Racial Fractures – An Asian American Buddhist View
with Rev. Duncan Ryuken Williams
Wednesday, August 4th 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Rev. Duncan Ryuken Williams draws on Buddhist teachings to offer a perspective that can heal the karmic legacy of racial violence, division, and trauma of the United States. He will offer insight from the history and lived experiences of Asian American Buddhist ancestors who built the foundations of the American sangha.
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Sangha Latinx!
con Nakawe Cuebas Berrios y Isabel Adon
Second Sunday of the Month, August 8th, 2021 from 11:30am - 12:30pm ET
Únete a nosotr@s una vez al mes por medio de Zoom para meditar en español con la Sangha Latinx!
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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Lani Miller
Tuesday, August 10th, 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: Relationship as a Liberatory Path – A Daylong for Cultivating Care
with Devon Hase & Peace Twesigye
Saturday, August 14th, 2021 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET
The whole of spiritual practice can be framed as relationship: to ourselves, each other, and the natural world around us. Through dialogue, discussion, meditation, and movement, we'll explore the territory of noble relationship and what it means for how we relate to ourselves in practice, in community, and in friendship to the world.
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Community Picnic
Saturday, August 14th, 2021 from 5:30pm - 7:00pm ET
New York Insight is happy and excited to invite you to celebrate summer in the great outdoors for a community picnic in Madison Square Park.
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Online: Purifying the Mind – An Explanation of the Sabbāsava Sutta
with Ayyā Somā
Sunday, August 15th, 2021 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET
One of the most remarkable aspects of the Buddha's teachings is their flexibility: the Buddha offered countless ways of responding appropriately to any circumstance. Join Ayyā Somā as she discusses the Sabbāsava Sutta and how to apply it's teachings to both our meditation and our daily experience.
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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Gary Singer
Tuesday, August 17th, 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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Real Life: A Discussion with Sharon Salzberg
Wednesday, August 18th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
In this special members only event, meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg will join us for an online dialogue on the topic of her upcoming book, "Real Life".
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Online: Fundamentals of Mindful Habit Change
with Laurence Magro & Nancy Logue, PhD
Saturday, August 21st, 2021 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET
This online program introduces the science of reward-based learning and how it applies to habit formation and habit change. Throughout this daylong program we will practice our new skills with short moments of mindfulness interspersed many times throughout the workshop.
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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Brian Simmons
Tuesday, August 24th, 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, August 31st, 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 Dharma of Relationship
with Devon Hase
Three Wednesdays, September 1st, 15th & 29th, 2021 from 7:00pm-8:30pm ET
Through small group practice, stories, silent meditation, and mindful speaking and listening, we’ll explore the multi-faceted world of relational mindfulness, including embodied awareness, the art of radical self-acceptance, and the possibility of finding freedom right in the middle of the tangle and dance of day-to-day relating.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, September 3rd-24th, 2021 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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Online: Trust Fall – How to Meet Vulnerability and Uncertainty with Compassion and Wisdom
with Ralph De La Rosa
Saturday, September 4th, 2021 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET
Whether it's falling in love, surviving a pandemic, claiming your identity, having a child, re-entering society, or having a difficult conversation... life throws us into vulnerable and uncertain situations over and over again. Join author and psychotherapist Ralph De La Rosa for a half day workshop exploring how to meet the challenges we face in this unique moment and excavate them for awakening.
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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Gary Singer
Tuesday, September 7th, 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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with Tara Mulay
Thursday, September 9th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
While the Pali word “viriya” is often translated simply as “energy,” this heart quality actually involves cultivation of a kind of courage and gentle perseverance that sustains us and supports resilience. We will dedicate this evening of practice together to an exploration of the liberating potential of viriya.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, September 10th, 2021 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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In-Person: Monthly Community Picnic
Saturday, August 14th, 2021 from 5:30pm - 7:00pm ET
New York Insight is happy and excited to invite you to celebrate summer in the great outdoors for a community picnic in Madison Square Park.
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Online: The True Heart’s Refuge
with Martin Aylward
Saturday, September 11th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm, ET
During this program we will explore how to wisely and lovingly respond to our own and others’ suffering, and contemplate the traditional Buddhist ’triple gem’ of refuge as a way to steady, gladden and liberate the heart, amidst the ongoing and infinite challenges of our imperfect and unperfectable world.
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In-Person: Sacred Earth Sangha in Greenwood Cemetery
with Lin Wang Gordon and Jon Aaron
Saturday, September 11th, 2021 from 2:00pm–5:00pm
For this month's Sacred Earth Sangha meeting, we will have a special gathering in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn as we cultivate relationships with our personal genealogical ancestors as well as practice reflections and meditations that touch the truth of the whole of nature as "all my relations."
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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Jon Aaron
Tuesday, September 14th, 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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Postponed: Imperfect Perfections – A Six Week Course on the Ten Paramis
with Gary Singer
Wednesdays, September 15th - October 20th, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET
The ten perfections (paramis) are ten qualities of character which support both your practice and your compassionate involvement in the world, whether you’re working with your family at home, at the office, or on the cushion. In this 6 week course, we’ll investigate the paramis with an emphasis on how we can bring them practically into our lives.
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Online: Yom Kippur – A Day of Silence and Reflection
with Jon Aaron and Elaine Retholtz
Thursday, September 16th 2021 from 10:00am – 7:00pm ET
Yom Kippur is the Jewish Day of Atonement, a day when, as a community, Jews are asked to reflect on their actions of the past year and to ask for atonement for any actions that were unskillful. In support of this day, NYI hosts an online day of silence and reflection.
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Online: The Art of Self-Forgiveness
with Bodhipaksa
Thursday, September 16th 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
There’s no way to instantly forgive ourselves. It takes time and practice. But on this evening with Bodhipaksa we’ll explore several powerful tools, drawn from Buddhist teachings, to help us let go, move on, and be more at peace with ourselves.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, September 17th, 2021 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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Online: Radical Friendship Roundtable – Sangha in a Pandemic
with Kate Johnson, Stacy McClendon, Dawn Mauricio, Jozen Tamori Gibson and JD Doyle
Friday, September 17th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
How can we give and receive true spiritual friendship in a time of isolation and uprising? Join us as we celebrate the release of dharma teacher Kate Johnson’s first book, Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World, with a round table discussion on what radical friendship means within Buddhist communities and beyond.
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Online: A Life of Inner Worth
with Peter Doobinin
Saturday, September 18th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
In this program, we’ll learn about the qualities, in the teaching of the Buddha, that comprise our inner worth. We’ll learn how we develop these qualities and about the benefits in doing so.
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Online: Touching the Ground of the Body with Kindness
with Scott Tusa
Saturday, September 18th, 2021 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET
In this online workshop, we will dive deep into transformational embodied awareness practices that engage a unified and joyful loving presence. Through periods of meditation and discussion we will explore and develop our connection to a calmer, more resilient, and interconnected state of being and learn how to move beyond the self-fragmentation that causes unnecessary suffering.
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Online: Insights on Kindfulness
with Bhante Sumitta
Sunday, September 19th, 2021 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET
What do you get when you combine kindness and mindfulness? Kindfulness! Bhante Sumitta, a senior monk from Sri Lanka, explains how to cultivate "kindfulness" and why it's a critical part of Buddhist practice.
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Online: The Power of Forgiveness – A Five Week Course
with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, September 20th - October 25th, 2021 from 9:30am - 11:30m ET
Forgiveness can allow us to come more fully into our hearts and can be a catalyst that transforms bitterness, anger, and grief into compassion and lovingkindness. Join us for an online course examining forgiveness and how to heal our relationships with others, ourselves and the past.
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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Lani Miller
Tuesday, September 21st, 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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Real Life: A Discussion with Sharon Salzberg
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021 from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm ET
In this special members only event, meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg will join us for an online dialogue on the topic of her upcoming book, "Real Life".
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Online: Mindful Habit Change for Anxiety and Related Behaviors
with Laurence Magro & Nancy Logue, PhD
Thursdays, September 23rd - October 14th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
This interactive online course, based on the work of neuroscientist & addiction psychiatrist Dr. Judson Brewer, explores the science of habit change and teaches a step by step model to understand and outgrow unwanted habits such as anxiety, procrastination, perfectionism, and unwanted behaviors.
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