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 [...]
New York Insight is seeking a highly motivated and strongly organized person for the position of Program Coordinator/Registrar.
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 [...]
In a world where it's easy to be overwhelmed by global suffering, finding balance between compassion and joy is very important. In this video clip by author and meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer, he shares personal reflections on staying open-hearted amidst despair and pain, allowing our hearts to be nourished by joy is not just necessary—it's what keeps us going.
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 [...]
New York Insight lost a dear friend on September 13th, 2023, as Sandra Weinberg transitioned peacefully from this life into the next while in hospice near Fort Lauderdale.
Join Pamela Ayo Yetunde on Wednesday, February 8th, 2023 for an online evening talk and discussion on how we can utilize Buddhist philosophies and practices to contribute to a more enlightened society. Click here for more info and registration.
In this talk at the Minnesota Zen Meditation Center, Buddhist teacher and author Ben Connelly describes the difference between shame and guilt and how the act of atonement can be powerful and liberative. Join Ben Connelly on Saturday, January 21st, 2023 for an online workshop on integrating social and personal healing and liberation. Click here for more [...]
