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Accessible Buddhist meditation in NYC + online. Weekly sits, dharma talks & retreats. A diverse, welcoming sangha for wisdom, connection & healing.

The Community Meditation Center is located on Manhattan’s upper west side in New York City. With a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere the CMC offers classes, Insight Meditation (Vipassana) instruction and practice, daylong retreats, workshops, and social events. Some of the world’s most renowned teachers join with guiding teacher Allan Lokos as we endeavor to develop greater compassion, lovingkindness, wisdom, generosity, and equanimity. The CMC exists for all who would seek a more joyful and meaningful life.

03/08/2026

“All beings are subject to aging. I am not exempt.” – Buddha

This Sunday at CMC we begin a new theme: Five Contemplations for Everyone.

Our first reflection is on aging—not as something to resist, but as an invitation to live more fully.

Daylight Saving Time begins this weekend in the U.S., so clocks move forward one hour.

If you’re in the New York area, we warmly invite you to practice together in the room. You can also join online via Zoom from anywhere.

Sunday, March 8
10:30am–12:00pm ET
15:30–17:00 CET

Click here to register: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/march-8-sacred-sunday-pause-in-personhybrid-at-nyimc

By donation. All teachings at Community Meditation Center New York are freely offered.

Learn more: www.CMC-NY.org/event-calendar

02/28/2026

“What feeds your doubt? And what feeds your trust?”

This Sunday at Community Meditation Center, we continue Befriending Difficulty with a reflection on doubt.

How does doubt show up in your life—especially self-doubt?
What shapes it? What keeps it going?

And can we also notice moments of trust already here—perhaps in the breath, in simply knowing you’re breathing?

With mindfulness, we begin to see that doubt can come… and also go.

🗓 Sunday, March 1
⏰ 10:30am–12:00pm ET | 16:30–18:00 CET
📍 Zoom link in bio or www.CMC-NY.org/event-calendar

✨ By donation — all are welcome

02/14/2026

What can you learn from laziness and sleepiness?

We’re delighted that guest teacher Nolitha Tsengiwe will be joining us this Sunday to explore exactly that!

This session will look at how dullness and sleepiness quietly drain our energy and cloud our clarity. What feeds them? What nourishes wakefulness and vitality?

Together, we’ll explore how to befriend laziness wisely: resting with care, without letting it take over.

This teaching is part of our ongoing theme ‘Befriending Difficulty’

🗓 Sunday, Feb 15 Community Meditation Center
⏰ 10:30am–12:00pm ET | 16:30–18:00 CET
📍 Zoom | link in bio

✨ By donation — all are welcome

11/22/2025

Join us for “Rejoicing in Generosity,” a special hybrid evening celebrating our Community Meditation Center New York and the many ways generosity shapes our lives.

Together, we’ll explore a simple but powerful question: What is the impact of generosity for you?

We’ll hear from our panel about how giving and receiving have touched their lives — and we’ll also take time in small groups to reflect on this same question as a community.

This evening is also a fundraiser supporting CMC, helping sustain our programs and our commitment to making these teachings accessible to all.

🗓 Saturday, December 6, 6:30–8:30pm ET

📍 Join in person at NY Insight Meditation Center or online via Zoom

We’d love to have you with us — to celebrate, to reflect, and to rejoice in the goodness we create together.

With Oneika Mays, Vera Ruangtragool, Pilar Jennings & Jessica Mingus

10/25/2025

“What would wisdom do, right now?”

This Sunday, we conclude our Back to Basics series with an exploration of mindfulness of dhammas — the fourth foundation of mindfulness.

If mindfulness helps us name the weather of the mind — stormy, foggy, bright, or still — mindfulness of dhammas helps us understand why the weather forms as it does, and what allows it to pass. By bringing the lens of the Buddha’s teachings into our practice, we learn to meet each moment with kindness and to gently guide the mind toward freedom.

🗓 Sunday, Oct 26, 2025
⏰ 10:30 am–12:00 pm ET | 16:30–18:00 CET
📍 Zoom (link in bio or www.CMC-NY.org/event-calendar)
✨ By donation – all are welcome at Community Meditation Center

09/27/2025

Whose voices help you return to balance when life feels out of rhythm?

This Sunday we’ll turn toward equanimity - a heart quality that expands our view. It allows us to be less disturbed by pain, blame, or loss, and less intoxicated by pleasure, praise, or gain. A steady heart that keeps kindness, compassion, and joy grounded.

A question we’ll explore together: What do I trust when there is equanimity?

🧘 Join us online with Community Meditation Center to explore equanimity through practice and reflection.

🗓 Sunday, Sept 28, 2025
⏰ 10:30am–12pm ET | 16:30–18:00 CET
📍 Zoom (link in bio or www.CMC-NY.org/event-calendar)
✨ By donation – all are welcome.

09/20/2025

“Being happy for others is way easier without comparing yourself to them.”

At the Community Meditation Center, we are exploring the Four Heart Qualities. This week we turn to being happy for the successes and the happiness of others.

✨ Join us as we reflect together:
🌿 For whom can we be happy?
🌿 How does joy feel?
🌿 What helps us when joy for others is difficult to find?

Through Dharma reflections, meditation, and shared presence, we’ll explore how joy steadies the heart, nourishes community, and helps us meet the world with ease.

🗓 Sunday, September 21
🕥 10:30am–12pm ET | 16:30–18:00 CET
💻 Online via Zoom
💞 By donation – all are welcome
🔗 www.CMC-NY.org/event-calendar

09/16/2025

✨New In-Person Offering: Waking Up Together ✨

Starting Sept 25, join CMC’s new monthly Thursday gatherings (6:30–8:30pm). With meditation, mindful movement, and Insight Dialogue, we’ll explore Dharma themes in community. Our first evening centers on joy for others—celebrating and holding life’s joys and sorrows together.

By donation. All are welcome.

Register for 9/25: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/september-25-in-person-interpersonal-practice-at-balanced-arts
Register for 10/16: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/october-16-sacred-sunday-pause-in-nyc-hybrid

Register for 11/13: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/november-13-interpersonal-practice-at-balanced-arts

Register for 12/4: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/december-4-interpersonal-practice-at-balance-arts

09/14/2025

“War is a monstrous lack of imagination.” — Franz Kafka

Today at the Community Meditation Center New York, we are exploring the Four Heart Qualities. This week we turn to compassion — empathy that responds to suffering with action. Compassion is not just a feeling, it is something we do.

✨ How are you doing compassion in your life these days?

Through Dharma reflections, meditation, and shared presence, we’ll explore how compassion can steady the heart and guide us in times of difficulty.

🗓 Sunday, September 14
🕥 10:30am–12pm ET | 16:30–18:00 CET
💻 Online via Zoom
💞 By donation – all are welcome
🔗 www.CMC-NY.org/event-calendar

09/05/2025

✨ Feed the Heart ✨

After a summer pause, we’re gathering again this Sunday.
Our September theme is Feed the Heart, beginning with a return to the practice of kindness.

🕥 10:30am–12:30pm ET

📍 New York Insight Meditation Center (in person) + on Zoom
115 W. 29th Street in NYC

All are welcome. Come sit, breathe, and begin the month together in practice. Click here to register: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/september-7-sacred-sunday-pause-in-person-at-nyimc

08/10/2025

Join us today for our final session of the summer!

Sometimes letting go feels like loss — yet in the space of release, peace can unfold.

“In the space of letting go, she let it all be.” — Reverend Safire Rose

This Sunday at the Community Meditation Center, we’ll close our series on perception with the healing perception of cessation — the letting go of what stands in the way of our happiness and freedom.

✨ What have you let go of that first felt like loss, but later brought a sense of freedom?

Through Dharma reflections, meditation, and shared presence, we’ll explore how the perception of cessation can soften the heart and free the mind.

🗓 Sunday, August 10
🕥 10:30am–12pm ET | 16:30–18:00 CET
💻 Online via Zoom
💞 By donation – all are welcome
🔗 www.CMC-NY.org/event-calendar

08/03/2025

Today! A Special Gathering with Joseph Goldstein

Join us for a unique opportunity to be in dialogue with Joseph Goldstein, in a Question & Response format.

All are welcome.

Like all our weekly sessions, this offering is donation-based.
More info at: www.CMC-NY.org/event-calendar

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Sunday	10am - 12pm

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The Community Meditation Center is located on Manhattan’s vibrant Upper West Side. With a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere, in the company of a welcoming community, CMC offers instruction and practice in Vipassana (Insight) meditation and in-depth explorations into the teachings of the Buddha. Some of the world’s most renowned teachers comprise the CMC faculty and inspire the development of greater compassion, lovingkindness, wisdom, generosity, and equanimity. CMC exists for all who seek a more meaningful and joyful life.

Sangha gatherings are twice a week and all are welcome:

Sundays from 10:30 AM - 12 PM on Manhattan's Upper West Side at 593 Columbus Avenue on the NE corner of 88th Street. [PLEASE NOTE Due to renovations, Sunday sessions from February16th – March 29th will be held at the Bernie Wohl Center, 647 Columbus Ave (NE corner 91st St. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF March 15th, which will be held at 15 West 86th Street (The SAJ Building))

Wednesdays from 6:30 - 7:30 PM at 15 West 86th Street (the SAJ building), between Central Park West and Columbus.