Upper West Side Buddhist Meditation Class

This series explores the first meditation Buddha taught in the stages of the path to enlightenment, on how precious is our human life. It is wonderfully simple. All it requires is opening our eyes to our great good fortune, the awesomeness of the life we’re already living.

Beneath the worry and busyness, a natural source of peace glows delightedly away inside of us. This is the gold we hold in our hearts. But a nugget of gold, however priceless, can’t shine when it is buried and hidden away. We need to know we have it. And we need the right conditions to dig it out and polish it up.

Amazingly, we have these conditions—these indescribably rare, impossibly lucky conditions. Everything has come together. Our sincerest dreams for real happiness are in the palm of our hand.

The only problem: we forget to notice.

In this four-part series, our last before summer break, we’ll practice noticing. And tapping into it, morning, noon, and night: our radiant inner wealth. Let’s trade the habit of judging ourselves for an unstoppable gratitude!