New York Insight Blog
Community Profile: Solomon James, Finance and Operations Steward
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 Job Opening – Programming Coordinator/Registrar
New York Insight is seeking a highly motivated and strongly organized person for the position of Program Coordinator/Registrar.
Special News from our Recent Community Town Hall!
Wow! It was quite a love fest at our recent Town Hall. With our themes of Community & Gratitude, we acknowledged, appreciated and celebrated our sangha. We had nearly 100 people in person and online bring their warmth and fellowship. And there were some delicious treats to share as well. We centered around [...]
Choosing What We Stand For: The Parami of Resolve by Leslie Booker
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 Perfection of Speech and Perception by Leslie Booker
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 [...]
Truthfulness
Truthfulness (sacca in Pali) helps us to free the mind from distortion, tunnel vision, and detrimental social constructs and paradigms. As LGBTQIA+ people and allies we might internalize these false beliefs that limit our capacity to really be our full selves. In this short video, meditation teachers Wildecy de Fátima Jury and Gayah (Imani) [...]