All Courses, Retreats & Events
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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: 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.
(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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
(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.
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.
A Deeper Harmony (Online Course)
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.
Reflections: A Writing and Meditation Day Retreat With Yashobodhi (Online International Triratna Event)
Join Yashobodhi and others for a day of exploration and practice through meditation and reflective writing, brought to you by The Buddhist Center. We’ll be using images and metaphors in meditation and follow writing prompts to gently delve deeper into our experience. There will also be a chance to interact with other writers in small breakout groups.
Tales of Freedom: Stories of Courageous Love from the Buddhist Tradition (Online Course)
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.
Buddha Day Celebration
Triratna NY NJ’s Buddha Day Celebration will be on May 2nd, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. EDT. Join us for an evening celebrating the Buddha’s enlightenment!
Forces for Good: Challenging Emotions as Portals to Liberation | A Home Retreat with Balajit, Singhashri, & Viveka (Online International Triratna Event)
What if all emotions, including those we sometimes find challenging, had something important to tell us about ourselves, others, and the world?
🧘♀️ 🧘♂️ Seven days of meditation, soulful exploration, and strong, supportive friendship: a gently held space to go deeper into experience and practice.
Meditation retreat led by Balajit, Singhashri, and Viveka.
Mindful Emotion: Kindness Behavior Training (Online Course)
Mindful Emotion is a follow-up online course for those who have completed a course in mindfulness (such as MBCT or MBSR) or would like to explore kindness practice. It’s a great way to take further and expand on what has been learned in a mindfulness course. It is for anyone who values kindness and wishes to bring more kindness into their life.
The Individual & the Spiritual Community (Online Course)
In Triratna NY-NJ’s online course “The Individual & the Spiritual Community,” Ananta & friends will discuss how to free yourself from group thinking and become independent, in the context of Buddhism.
The Dharma of Dreams: Cultivating Dream Awareness in the Buddhist Tradition (Online International Triratna Event)
Join Arthabandhu and other dreamers for a three-week course exploring the many realms of dream and sleep, and their significance in the Dharma life.
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