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Title
Insight Meditation, Vipassana, New York Downtown
Contact
- Peter Doobinin
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- New York NY
- US 10009
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- +1.2129790687
Description
The downtown meditation community provides an environment where individuals come together to practice insight meditation, to develop their understanding of the meditation skill and the teachings central to it. The community offers a refuge, a place to cultivate steadiness of mind, calmness, wisdom and compassion, amidst the clamor of urban life.
The meditation skill provides a means by which we learn to train the mind and heart. In doing so, we’re able to meet the moments of our lives with greater joy, clarity, equanimity. We put particular emphasis on the integration of the meditation skill into our daily lives, our work life, our family life, our relationships.
The opportunity to practice meditation with each other, to share the path, lies at the heart of the vision of the downtown meditation community. In order to maintain a mindful life it is important that we practice together. In many ways, the way life is lived in today’s world, in a place like New York City, with its complexities, commotion, stresses and myriad distractions, is counter to the meditative path, the way of peace, calmness, clear-seeing. It is therefore extremely beneficial if we do not try to follow this path alone but rather as part of a community (sangha). In community, we support each other, we learn to live in harmony with one another, to act and speak in a skillful, compassionate manner. We become able to bring this way of being into all the facets of our lives. We become able to meet the world with an open heart. And in the process, we have a genuine opportunity to contribute to the happiness of all beings.
