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.

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.

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.

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.

🧘‍♀️ 🧘‍♂️ Seven days of meditation, soulful exploration, and strong, supportive friendship: a gently held space to go deeper into experience and practice.

An online retreat connecting to creativity and the imagination through art, mindfulness and nature.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Join us for a deep dive into the nature of the mind and emptiness through a meditation intensive with Tejananda and Upeksanandi.

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.

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.

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.

Focusing on the shamatha elements in Anapanasati.

In this Triratna NY NJ online course, you will be guided through somatic and energy-based meditations and inquiry that draw on your deepest capacity to be open and receptive. The course will be highly experiential.

Triratna NY-NJ’s online 4-week course, Tales of Freedom: Stories of Courageous Love from the Buddhist Tradition, will explore one story each week, through discussion and reflection, of how ordinary people liberate themselves from anger and grief, and great teachers remain free even in the face of death.