Join CT Tamura, John Baker and others for weekly meditation instruction, talks and discussions held every Monday evening from 7pm-9pm at:
New York Buddha Dharma
at Nalandabodhi
64 Fulton St, Suite 400
New York, NY 10038
For more info or to sign up for the mailing list, email: carytamura (at) gmail.com. CT likes to show how meditation can be integrated into our day-to-day lives and presents meditation practice and teaching in real-world context. The group known as Awake New York (formerly Dharmajunkies) has teamed up with New York Buddha Dharma (NYBD) www.newyorkbuddhadharma.org to meet on Monday nights.
Teachings vary from week to week depending on the teacher and range from a secular exploration and teaching of meditation to modern psychology to classical Buddhist talks depending on the teacher. It is recommended that you sign up for both the Awake New York and NYBD mailing lists.
The practice of meditation is an amazing, powerful, and transformational tool. Developing a meditation practice is developing the ability to be present, and a dedicated practice can affect great change at personal, institutional and societal levels by making us more aware and more awake.
Meditation develops awareness both of what is happening internally in our hearts and minds as well as externally in our interactions with the people and world around us. As our awareness and understanding (call it clarity or wisdom) develops, so does the recognition that thoughts and actions have a very direct effect on our lives and that we are much more interconnected than we thought.
With this growing clarity comes the ability to be proactive with our lives rather than reactive. Meditation enables us to recognize, examine and eliminate our ingrained, habitual responses.
The goal of these weekly talks are to introduce and discuss meditation training in a culturally familiar, contemporary manner. Beginners and advanced practitioners alike are welcome.
About CT:
C.T. Tamura has been studying and practicing meditation for about 15 years and has been a part of the Shambhala community for much of that time. A proponent of meditation in public, he regularly leads meditations in Times Square. C.T. founded the meditation-based website, The Sitting Project as a way to both introduce and demystify mindfulness meditation. As a writer, he is published on Elephantjournal.com as well as his site, www.thesittingproject.org. He occasionally can be found leading the dharma-based meditation and discussion group www.newyorkbuddhadharma.org in NYC and was recently featured in a Korean Buddhist Television Network documentary on meditation in the west along with notable teachers such as Jack Kornfield. CT counts among his teachers, John Baker who was in turn, a student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpche, and editor of the books Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism and The Myth Of Freedom and who is a founder of New York Buddha Dharma, The Westchester Buddhist Center www.westchesterbuddhistcenter.org
New York Buddha Dharma talks are generally recorded on the NYBD Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWwKlqkDt7EDcPF2fPDj03g
And select podcasts from Awake New York and Dharmajunkies can be found here: https://awakenewyork.podbean.com/