This month, our Community Newsletter features another new member of our leadership team: Solomon James, our operations steward. Solomon has responsibility for the many, many processes that keep New York Insight working: finance, operations, and the myriad details of running a meditation center. He's also part of the leadership collective, helping to steer [...]
The poet audre lorde wrote, "Caring for myself is not self-indulgent, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare." This quote has been a personal north star for me, and it is one of the best ways I know to describe the strength, depth, and power of this month's focus: [...]
The Parami (perfection or attainment) of truthfulness might be one of the more complex and rich of the collection of the 10 Paramis. Speech is an incredibly powerful tool that can bring peace and harmony to a fraught experience, or can be weaponized to be a corrosive force. Speech and perception are also [...]
Dear Ones, This month, we are continuing our community-wide focus on the ten paramis: generosity, morality, renunciation, wisdom, energy, patience, truthfulness, resolve, metta, and equanimity. Together, the paramis give us an understanding of not just what the Buddha said, but what he did to attain his liberation. Practicing as a community in this way [...]
Dear Ones, The ten Paramis are the qualities of heart that paved the way for the Buddha’s awakening. In a sense, they are the prequel to the Buddha’s life. They are generosity, ethical conduct, renunciation, wisdom, energy, patience, truthfulness, determination, lovingkindness and equanimity. A few months ago the teaching body at NYI began [...]
