You might not consider visiting New York for a nice meditative, relaxing time, but believe it or not, you can if you attend the New York Insight urban center . The NYI programs include talks, weekly sittings and courses as well as daylong, weekend retreats and workshops that integrated meditation teachings into every day life. They strive to be a center that reflects the vivid diversity of the city. The center is a place where anyone, of different ages, nationalities, cultures, sexual orientation, languages, ethnicities and spiritual and religious backgrounds – is welcome to begin or to deepen their meditation practice based on the teachings of the Buddha.
Insight meditation as taught and practiced at the New York Insight center is a way to develop wisdom and compassion, to cultivate mindfulness of the body from moment to moment, without judgments, distortions or projections, to see things as they are, to watch nativities weaken as you begin to cultivate a peacefulness in the mind and an openness of heart. The foundations of the practice include sitting meditation, in which you’ll learn to acquire steadiness of the mind and the ability to see deeply into the truth of your experience; walking meditation, in which you develop a greater awareness of your body in the present moment; and mindfulness in daily life, the art of conscious living. NYI offers a full schedule of talks, courses, sittings, retreats and workshops aimed at developing the art of mindful living. A majority of the programs are designed especially for beginners.
You’ll leave the comforts of your luxury New York City hotel and enter a light-filled loft space located near Herald Square , has become the physical and spiritual home of the community since it opened in 2004; with a main meditation room and a classroom, the center provides a safe space for spiritual inquiry. New York Insight Meditation Center is located on 28 West 27th Street on the 10th Floor.
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