All Courses, Retreats & Events
Eight Step Recovery: Exploring Addiction and Recovery Through the Lens of Buddhism
Exploring addiction and recovery through the lens of Buddhism.
New Year's Eve Meditation With Triratna Community
Join us on Tuesday December 31st 2024 from 6:30pm to 8:00pm ET for an evening of connecting as a community, thoughtful reflection on the year past and sharing of hope and aspirations for the year ahead. Let’s support one another in our intention to be mindful and compassionate towards one another.
Meditating with Mindfulness: An Essential 4-Week Guide for Everyone
Mindfulness meditation can help us learn how to face uncertain times with less anxiety and stress, developing resilience and energy.
In this course, you’ll learn in-depth and proven techniques in mindfulness and how to apply them to everyday life. These include mindfulness meditation, movement, and self-reflection. You will have the support of others on this journey.
The Drama of Cosmic Enlightenment: Parables, Myths and Symbols from the White Lotus Sutra — Order/Mitra Day Retreats
Celebrating Aryaloka’s 40th year and following the success of this past year’s exploration of the Vimalakirti Nirdesa, we are happy to announce four new Order/Mitra day retreats! Come together with other Order Members and Mitras for a deep dive into one of the most profound and inspiring Sutras of the Buddhist Canon: The White Lotus Sutra.
The day retreats will include meditation, discussion groups, dramatic readings of the text, and creative ritual. A vegetarian lunch will be provided. Zoom participation is also possible.
NYC In-Person Practice Day: The Blue Buddha — Akshobya
Throughout 2025,our sangha will have a focus on Akshobhya, the Blue Buddha of the East.
Ananta will lead a practice morning introducing the figure and his significance in the context of our everyday practice. Who is Akshobhya? Why is he blue? What is that thing he holds in his hand? How is he relevant to my life?
Join us at the New York Zendo for meditation, discussion, ritual, and connecting with community, followed by lunch.
Meditating with Kindness: An Essential 4-Week Guide for Everyone
In this course, we will look at what kindness actually is, how we put kindness into practice in our daily lives, and a range of meditation techniques for cultivating kindness.
Through this course, you will develop a greater capacity to respond to difficult experiences with kindly awareness — leading to resilience, confidence, and calm.
The Doors of Liberation — A Meditation Intensive with Padmadharini
This three-day meditation retreat for experienced meditators within the Triratna tradition is designed for practitioners seeking to deepen their understanding of insight-oriented approaches to meditation — practices that illuminate the nature of experience and reality. This retreat will be oriented to experiential learning rather than study.
Meditating with Insight: An Essential 4-Week Guide for Everyone
Everyone has insight. We all have had a “vision of how things are” to some degree at some point in our life. Insight meditation can help us take this vision further and understand some of the deeper forces at play in our lives and in the world.
During this course, you’ll learn in-depth and proven techniques to reflect on insight in your meditation and in everyday life. You will have the support of others on this journey.
COMING SOON: Triratna Fall 2025 Retreat
All details and registration info coming soon!
Led By: Samayasri, Suryapala, and Karunamala
Friday, November 21st to Monday, November 24th, 2025
In Person at Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing
191 Cragsmoor Road, Cragsmoor, NY 12420
Event Description:
Save the date for our 2025 Fall Retreat at the beautiful Dharmakaya Center for Wellness!
Event Highlights:
Instruction and support from highly experienced teachers
A thoughtful balance of meditation, yoga, contemplation, ritual, and rest periods
A supportive and friendly community of practitioners
Access to individual meditation support if needed
Q&A with teachers
Delicious all-vegetarian meals with locally-sourced ingredients
Option to extend stay on Personal Retreat
Extensive library of dharma books
Expansive wooded grounds with beautiful walking paths, flora, and fauna
Single rooms for all (option for couples to share)
Experience: OPEN TO ALL!
Meditation: This retreat will be most suitable for people with meditation experience. Beginner instruction will not be offered during the retreat, but individual support will be available as needed.
Mindful Movement: No experience needed, very accessible.
Timing:
The retreat will commence with dinner at 6pm on Friday, November 21st and will conclude after lunch on Monday, November 24th, 2025.
Accommodations:
The Dharmakaya Center for Wellbeing is located in scenic Pine Bush, NY in the Catskill Mountains and offers private rooms with healthy and delicious vegan and vegetarian meals. The grounds are beautifully curated and feature walking paths, along with an outdoor pavilion.
About the Leaders:
Samayasri is a Senior Order Member in Triratna who has served as Chair of the NY-NJ Sangha for many years. She also serves as President of the San Francisco and Vancouver, BC Sanghas. Samayasri is a dedicated practitioner, teacher, and leader. She has taught meditation for over 20 years and has a deep commitment to her ethics and confession practice. Her practice directly informs her career in global humanitarian & development organizations, within which she has learned to face deeply into suffering.
Suryapala is an Ordained Buddhist in the Triratna Buddhist Community and has been practicing meditation regularly for six years. He began his Buddhist journey in the United Kingdom and for the last several years has been an active member of the New York/New Jersey Sangha.
Karunamala is an Ordained Buddhist in the Triratna Buddhist Community. She has practiced with Triratna since 2008. In 2015, she asked to be ordained within the international movement, deepening her commitment by Going for Refuge to the Three Jewels (the Buddha, Dharma, Sangha). Karunamala describes her journey as "profoundly beautiful and life changing." She continues to go on retreats enriched with meditation, dharma study, and an ever-deepening connection with her beloved Buddhist community (Sangha).
Registration and payment info coming soon! Save the date!
NYC In-Person Practice Day — Just Being: The Joy and Beauty of Being Totally Present in Our Lives
Join the Triratna NY NJ community for our December In-Person Practice Day at NY Zendo Shobo-ji. We’ll be practicing in community and celebrating the joy and beauty of being totally present in our lives. Join us for lunch after!
Coming Together in Compassionate Community
In light of the recent USA presidential election and the ongoing conflicts and tragedies in Gaza, the West Bank, Israel, Lebanon, Ukraine, Russia, and Sudan, many of us are feeling a profound sense of distress and concern. Viveka and Vimalasara warmly invite you to come together with us for a gathering that will provide a space for us to share our heartbreak and to explore what skillful actions might look like as we nurture our sangha.
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.
Post-Election Evening
A chance for us to come together and be in beloved community the evening following election day.
Finding Peace in a Mad World (Online Course)
This eight-week online course will be guided by an experienced Order Member and Leader in the Triratna Community. She will guide the learning experience on how to work with overwhelm and find peace that leads to compassionate responses. Based on Buddhist wisdom, mindfulness and compassion-based approaches, you will learn how to work more effectively with these challenges, and live more from a place of more choice and wholehearted engagement.
Each class will include periods of practice, dialogue, Dharma teaching, and discussion.
NYC In-Person Practice Day: The Healing Power of Lovingkindness
Come join Triratna NY NJ for our October 2024 In-Person Practice Day in NYC! We’ll be meeting at Lucid Body House from 12:30 to 5:30 pm to gather in community and discuss the healing power of loving kindness.
The Three Bodies Of Belonging: A Home Retreat
🧘♀️ 🧘♂️ Seven days of meditation, soulful exploration, and strong, supportive friendship: a gently held space to go deeper into experience and practice.
Dharmachakra Pravartan Day
Join New England Ambedkarites and Aryaloka for Dharmachakra Pravartan Day, which is the celebration of the mass conversions of Dalit people's from Hinduism to Buddhism led by Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar on Oct 14, 1956.
Ordination Celebration (Online)
Celebrating the ordination of two of our beloved sangha members, formerly Laura and Todd.
NYC In-Person Practice Day: Padmasambhava Day
Join Triratna NY | NJ for an in-person practice day: a celebration of Padmasambhava, an important figure in the Buddhist tradition and in the Triratna Buddhist Community.
The Heart of Imagination with Vishvapani and Amitajyoti
An online retreat connecting to creativity and the imagination through art, mindfulness and nature.
Mind in Harmony: Skills for Resolving Inner and Outer Conflict (Online Course)
This eight-week online course will focus on cultivating and refining somatic awareness as a means to skillfully acknowledge, work with, and resolve conflict within ourselves and in our lives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Buddhist Council of New York's Vesak Celebration
Join the Buddhist Council of New York for their cherished annual Vesak celebration under the theme “Peace in Action: Living the Teachings of the Buddha.” Vesak is a revered Buddhist holiday that commemorates the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and pari-nirvana. This significant gathering is set for May 18th, from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM, at the esteemed Rubin Museum, which, in a bittersweet note, will be closing its doors this fall.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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