Support Triratna NY-NJ in 2025!
Dear Friends,
In honor of Giving Tuesday and the holidays, we’d like to encourage you to engage in the practice of generosity and show appreciation for causes that work for the benefit of others. We hope to be able to continue running all our events and offerings in 2025, so we’re sharing with you our end-of-year appeal to raise $5,000 for our sangha!!
During 2024, among other things, we have been able to:
bring Viveka and Candradasa to New York to run retreats
host six Monday-night courses covering key themes of meditation and Dharma
run three weekly study groups
hold monthly practice days in New York City and New Jersey
support six people with scholarships to attend our sangha retreats
help smooth out organization and communication of all activities through paid positions
Much of this would not have been possible without your generosity, and none without the extreme goodwill and volunteer support of many people:
Our Council: Ananta (Chair), Ange (Treasurer), Silasiddhi, Srisara, and Tamojyoti
Our teachers: Padmadharini, Samayasri, Tamojyoti, Ananta, Silasiddhi, Srisara, Karunamala, Suryapala, Moira, and Joy
Our safeguarding team: Silasiddhi, Srisara, and Ananta
Many others we're forgetting!
We want to keep doing this and more in 2025!! More scholarships for retreats, young people's activities, a month of practice in May. To do this, we need more support. Our request is:
If you make a regular contribution, consider increasing it by 20%. This would offset cumulative inflation over the last 3 years of around 18%. A $25 monthly increase gets us 6% towards our target!
If you don't make a regular contribution, consider making one! By joining the “Dana economy,” you will have open access to all online and in-person classes. See last notice below.
If neither of these are possible, consider making a one-off donation.
As well as the activities outlined, in 2025 we hope to offer more scholarships, launch young people’s activities in NYC, and run a month of practice in May.
Thank you so much. Through our continued engagement with one another and the world, we can foster love, compassion, and wisdom, benefitting beings far and wide.
With metta,
Ananta, Ange, Silasiddhi, Srisara, and Tamojyoti - The Triratna NY-NJ Council