Upper West Side Buddhist Meditation Class

You know that thing we humans do, where we know what brings us joy, yet push it away? For example, we genuinely want to meditate, but weirdly, it’s hard to press the pause button in the morning. Even just for ten minutes, to sit with our hearts. Later, we say, later. Tomorrow, we say. Tomorrow.

Well, that’s called procrastination. And the opposite of this disinclined mind, according to Buddha, is joyful effort. Or in other words, the energy of delight. Rather than a doomed-to-fizzle sprint, this mind is a nice good steady walk you can actually do every day.

Please come by and learn how to stop waiting for the perfect time. Never fear, we’re not going to teach you how to be relentlessly productive. We’re not trying to whip ourselves into a frenzy of virtue, only to collapse in the ruins of our own good intentions three days later. No thanks!

We want something much sweeter: a mind that is magnetically drawn to the thoughts and actions that make us happy. And to allow this delighted mind to grow fuller and deeper and gentler and evermore powerful, like a wide flowing river that will carry us in perfect timing to where we truly want to go.