In the spirit of beginning again and with a renewed zeal for the promised goal of a mind liberated from suffering and a heart available for impartial compassionate response, this day is spent practicing Mindfulness and Metta Meditation.

In the spirit of beginning again and with a renewed zeal for the promised goal of a mind liberated from suffering and a heart available for impartial compassionate response, this day is spent practicing Mindfulness and Metta Meditation.

New Year's Retreat

How to contemplate on death and sickness; “Russial doll”contemplation of body; how to practice for insight; mindfulness as a refuge in busy city life

Liberation requires clearing citta of its contracted state. We can learn to care for our citta, to know what lifts and steadies it to bring it out of contraction. In meditation we try to concentrate and feel even more constricted. Opening up the body and accessing the vitality that comes from mindfulness of breathing can have a calming effect.

An essential element of mindfulness practice is to cultivate a willingness to be with our experience just as it is. Consciously cultivating qualities of deep-rooted acceptance, kindness, and interest in our experience supports freeing our minds and opening our hearts.

Desire is intrinsic to our aliveness, yet when we have unmet needs, it can possess us. This talk explores how to relax open the grip of wanting and heal the suffering of addiction. You will learn how to bring mindfulness and compassion to the roots of desire, and be carried home to open loving presence. “Recovery is also about spirit – about dealing with that ‘hole in the soul’ … so how does this hole get filled and become holy space?”

An exploration of the importance, personally and socially, of practicing with fear. We work especially with these tools: (1) mindfulness and the study of fear (What is fear? How does it manifest in the body, emotions, and thinking); (2) heart practices like metta and compassion; and (3) developing wise and skillful responses.

Discusses untangling "Karmic Knots" - 6 stages of mindfulness.

We explore what mindfulness is and how to begin to cultivating a mindfulness practice, as well as begin to understand how we bring this wakeful capacity to everything we do.

We explore what mindfulness is and how to begin to cultivating a mindfulness practice, as well as begin to understand how we bring this wakeful capacity to everything we do.

This talk by Dawn Neal is the third in a speaker series titled "Eight-Fold Path of Awakening." Mindfulness is an important component of the Eightfold Path and supports the development of the other Path factors. By practicing Right Mindfulness, we can become aware of any state of mind and soften habitual reactions such as blame and inner criticism.

This talk explores the 1st Foundation Of Mindfulness, with particular attention to the gift of being with dying

Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.

Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.

Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.

Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.

Tenzin will offer musical meditations with his transcendent vocals and exquisite lute solos. Mark will talk about meditation in nature and how the natural world is a great support for the cultivating awareness, connection and insight as well as opening the heart to wonder, awe and love. He’ll lead practices that invite us to connect with the nature in the midst of the city. Sara will share the vision of the Awake in the Wild Experience to bring the mindfulness in nature practices to every borough of the city and beyond.

This talk discusses perceptual distortions and how mindfulness can help us to see clearly

We explore the many ways mindfulness is capable of leading to insight and how to relate to practice to foster mindfulness.

The Satipatthana Sutta (usually translated as the Foundations of Mindfulness) offers a complete description of the practice of mindfulness, beginning with the direct awareness of the breath and the body, progressing through mindfulness of vedana or feeling tone, to the more subtle object of the Third Foundation, mindfulness of mind states. The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness represents the culmination of this series of practices, and can be seen as a direct pointing, again and again, to the possibility of freedom through direct awareness of where we get caught, and how to turn the mind towards liberation. This talk is an overview of the practices of the Fourth Foundation, which can be seen as both the last in the sequence of practices, and as a progression in itself. It also covers how the Fourth Foundation can be skillfully interwoven into our practice of the other foundations.