All Courses, Retreats & Events
Feeling the Love: An Immersion Into Loving Kindness Practice (Online Course)
Loving kindness is an incredibly transformative practice. We learn that we have the power to love ourselves and others, that the resources to heal and forgive are right here.
Over this seven-week meditation course, you’ll learn how to engage with the practice with ease and absorption.
The Inconceivable Emancipation — Themes from the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa | Order/Mitra Day Retreats
Join participants at Aryaloka in NH in the new year for four day retreats exploring the Vimalakirti Nirdesa! The day retreats will include meditation, discussion groups, dramatic readings of the text, and creative ritual. A vegetarian lunch will be provided.
NYC In-Person Practice Day: Mindful Presence
Our next NYC In-Person Practice Day will be held at the Lucid Body House on April 28, 2024. The theme of the practice day will be Mindful Presence.
Eight Step Recovery: Exploring Addiction and Recovery Through the Lens of Buddhism
Exploring addiction and recovery through the lens of Buddhism.
NJ In-Person Practice Day: Boundless Heart
The theme of this New Jersey in-person practice day is Boundless Heart, where the focus will be the cultivation of contentment by inquiry into the ‘bonds’ that cause suffering and meditations that encourage us to cultivate and rest in a simple contentment.
Sangha Night: Town Hall (Online)
Join us on Monday, June 10th from 6:30 pm to 8:15 pm for an evening as a community, reflection on our practice, and how our community is (or is not) helping to support your practice.
The Heart of Compassion: A Residential Retreat
On this Triratna NY-NJ retreat, led by Viveka, we will practice and play with living with the pressures of our times and explore how to respond with mindfulness, metta (loving kindness), and compassion.
A Beautiful Mind: An Uncontrived Approach to Mindfulness (Online Course)
The Buddha emphasized that happiness is found through understanding the mind rather than getting caught up in sense experience. This simple yet radical shift is key to a relaxed and uncontrived way of practicing.
This course on mindfulness will be a deep dive into the practice of exploring our experience as it happens in this relaxed, natural and uncontrived way.
NYC In-Person Practice Day: Dharma Day
Join us on Saturday, July 6th, 2024, for one of our NYC In-Person Practice Days, followed by lunch and a cultural excursion. We’ll be celebrating Dharma Day — all are welcome, no experience necessary.
The Human Buddha: A Residential Retreat
During this weekend, we’ll explore how our experience as fellow human travelers can meet the huge challenges we’re presented with — personal, cultural, and political — and how the Buddha’s message of practical hope, radical responsibility, and deep kindness can help us make a difference in society and build a better America for those to come.
Led by Candradasa and Ananta, this 3-day residential retreat is offered in the context of meditation, reflection, and community as key aspects of practice to support transcendence, freedom, and awakening.
Life with Full Attention: Body, Feelings, Mind | Day Retreat
This day retreat from Triratna NY-NJ complements the 8-week, Monday evening course, and is accompanied by another day retreat in April. It can be attended in conjunction with the course, or as a stand-alone event.
NYC In-Person Practice Day: Parinirvana Day
This in-person practice day in NYC is brought to you by Triratna NY-NJ. We’ll be celebrating Parinirvana Day at Lucid Body House in Manhattan — we hope you can join!
Life with Full Attention: A Practical Course in Mindfulness (Online) | Run with London, Berlin, and Barcelona
In this Triratna NY-NJ course you’ll learn, in a step-by-step way, how to practice the Buddha’s four fundamental dimensions of mindfulness, as well as how to apply them to the life you’re actually living.
Exploring a Deeper Harmony of Body and Mind | A Retreat with Padmadharini
This retreat is for experienced practitioners wishing to go deeper in their practice of meditation and insight. Participants should have at least a year’s regular practice of Buddhist meditation and be familiar with Triratna’s approach to meditation.
Young Adults Sangha
This is a new initiative led by young Triratna Buddhists! We offer classes by young people for young people. Beginners are welcome!
If you're in your 20s or early 30s, this is a great way to discover meditation and find out more about the teaching of the Buddha in a way that's relevant to your life, right here and now.
(white) Awareness is Revolutionary Course
When as Dharma practitioners we work together to explore our racial conditioning, it can deepen our practice and open new ways of connecting with ourselves and with others. With greater awareness and understanding, we can co-create sanghas that have higher levels of racial fluency, cultural competency, and the ability to name and heal from harm caused by the racial construct.
This particular program, “(white) Awareness is Revolutionary” is designed for people who present as white, and who seek to explore the work of undoing racism within a Buddhist framework. Does that word “white” make you cringe? We get it! We will unpack that together, along with how it might connect with other ways we have been conditioned, such as class, gender, sexuality and more. Let’s move from horrified anxiety to compassion, and from fear to wise action. We are in it together.
Ananta and Padmadharini plan to facilitate a NY/NJ (w)AIR group in 2024, meeting once a month on-line, likely starting early February. The schedule will be determined based on finding a regular time that works for everyone who signs up -- so please do signal your interest by applying and we will get in touch with you.
Below you can listen to three testimonials from former participants who are now part of the team. Upayadhi has also offered a video overview of the course.
NYC In-Person Practice Day: Winter Stillness
This Triratna NY-NJ In-Person Practice Day is a Community Practice Morning with meditation, check-ins, and group practice.
The Balance of the Dharma Life: Tuning in with The Five Spiritual Faculties | Regional Retreat 2024
This retreat is open to all sangha members from Aryaloka, Boston, Lubec, Portland, Portsmouth, New York and New Jersey. Born from a desire to bring our east coast sanghas together, the Regional Retreat has been running for 15 years! This is a wonderful opportunity to meet Buddhists from across the region and make new friends.
There is a Zoom option for some sessions of the retreat if you would prefer to attend from home.
New Jersey In-Person Practice Days
Triratna New York and New Jersey will come together on the second Saturday of every month to practice in New Jersey. Beginners are welcome. Join us for meditation, ritual, and group discussion every month.
Not About Being Good: A Practical Course on How to Live and What to Do! (Online)
In this six-week course from Triratna NY-NJ, we'll explore how to act in ways that flourish our lives and contribute to the lives of those around us.
New Year's Eve Meditation (Online)
Join members of the Triratna Buddhist Community as we gather on Zoom for meditation and sharing about what the New Year means to us and what we hope for!
Winter Solstice Meditation: Meditation for Peace (Online)
Please join our community on this winter solstice as we come together to meditate for peace in our world. Our powerful intentions for suffering to end are needed. This will be an online meditation.
NJ In-Person Practice Day: Practicing With the Bramaviharas
At this in-person practice day in Trenton, New Jersey, the Triratna community will discuss what it means to practice with the Brama-viharas, the sublime attitudes, the four faces of love. We will discuss the experience of cultivating metta (loving kindness), karuna (compassion), mudita (sympathetic joy), and upekkha (equanimity).
NYC In-Person Practice Day: Sangha Day
This Triratna NY-NJ in-person practice day will be held at Manhattan’s Lucid Body House on December 3. Join us for meditation, group discussion, and ritual, followed by a lunch and cultural excursion nearby.
Finding Love in a Hopeless Place: A Short Course in Compassion (Online)
This 4-week online course from Triratna NY-NJ will explore what compassion is, how we express it, how we can transform suffering, and more.
Emptiness and the Nature of Mind: Meditation Intensive Led by Tejananda with Upekshanandi
Join us for a deep dive into the nature of the mind and emptiness through a meditation intensive with Tejananda and Upeksanandi.
The Road to Freedom: A Residential Retreat
Join us for a long weekend exploring the road or roads to freedom. What does freedom look like? How is it different for different people? What steps can I take to become free?
Led by Samayasri and Ananta, this 3-day residential retreat at Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing is offered in the context of meditation, reflection and community as key aspects of practice to support freedom and awakening.
NJ In-Person Practice Day: Finding Balance & Peace in Challenging Times
At this in-person retreat in Central New Jersey, the Triratna NY-NJ community will explore how we can cultivate more balance, equanimity, and peace in our lives. We will examine the assumptions and perspectives that underlie our views and experience of the world through meditation and teaching.
NYC In-Person Practice Day: Buddhism and the Arts
During this November in-person practice day in NYC, we will explore how the creative arts can help inspire and support our practice as Buddhists. This event is put on by Triratna NY-NJ at Lucid Body House in Manhattan and will be followed by lunch nearby.
Mindful Use of Tech (Online Course)
This 5-week course from Triratna NY-NJ asks: does use of tech dominate your life? Do you feel unhealthily compelled to check social media and emails? Would you like to live with more balance and boundaries in regard to your use of tech? Join us as we explore mindful ways to change our relationship with technology.
NJ In-Person Practice Day: A Deep Dive into Metta
During this practice day in collaboration with the Buddhist Sangha of Bucks County, we’ll explore together the all-inclusive heart energy of love that can be available even when we feel emotions such as sadness, grief, and loneliness.
(More) Reflections: A Writing and Meditation Day Retreat with Yashobodhi (Online International Triratna Event)
We invite you once more to take part in a day of exploration and practice through meditation and reflective writing with Yashobodhi and others. We will gently delve into our experience following writing prompts and working with images and metaphors.
NYC In-Person Practice Day: Padmasambhava Day Festival
Triratna NY-NJ’s monthly in-person practice day in NYC. September’s is a celebration of Padmasambhava, along with an optional lunch and cultural excursion to the Met.
Mindful Emotion: Kindness Behavior Training (Online Course)
Kindness Behavior Training (KBT) has been developed as a follow-up course for those who have completed a course in mindfulness (such as MBCT or MBSR). It’s a great way to take further and expand on what has been learned in a previous mindfulness course.
Entering the Mandala: Mindfulness and Imagination with Vidyamala and Vishvapani (Online International Triratna Event)
Vidyamala and Vishvapani invite you to join an exploration of mindfulness and imagination through talks, meditation, creative activities, discussion and shared ritual, particularly focused on the richly evocative symbol of the mandala.
This Home Retreat with Triratna’s Buddhist Center Online is an opportunity to live for a week with mindfulness, kindness, poetry and creativity, even in the midst of our daily lives.
Mindfulness of Breathing: The Stability of Earth, the Water of Inspiration (Online International Triratna Event)
Focusing on the shamatha elements in Anapanasati.
NYC In-Person Practice Day: Buddhism and Art
Triratna NY-NJ’s monthly practice day in July will be all about Buddhism and Art. Starting with meditation practice, we’ll focus on art or images that inspire our practice. Everyone is invited to bring one or two small images or pieces to discuss.
Dharma Day (In-Person Celebration)
Join Triratna NY-NJ as we celebrate Dharma Day! This holiday celebrates the first teaching of the Buddha after his enlightenment, which was given on the full moon day in July over 2500 years ago.
NJ In-Person Retreat: An Exploration of the Madhupindika or "Honey Ball" Sutta
Triratna NY-NJ presents this day retreat, given alongside the Buddhist Sangha of Bucks County. The theme of the retreat will be Madhupindika or “Honey Ball” Sutta - the discourse of how mental proliferation and views arise, lead to conflict, and how being present and mindful can reduce inner and outer conflict.
NYC In-Person Practice Evening: The Foundations of Ritual
Join Triratna NY-NJ for a practice evening exploring the foundations of ritual and reverence. This evening, we’ll explore what moves and inspires us and how we can make more use of this in our lives. We’ll be practicing at Manhattan’s Lucid Body House.
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