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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.

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

07/30/2025

Join us this Sunday for a special gathering with Joseph Goldstein, presented in a question and response format. All are welcome.

This and all our weekly sessions is offered by donation. Visit our website for more information: www.CMC-NY.org/event-calendar

06/25/2025

“Lovingkindness is the ability to take risks with our awareness — to look at ourselves and others with kindness instead of reflexive criticism.” — Sharon Salzberg

This Sunday, as part of Community Meditation Center’s series on the Ten Pāramīs, we welcome Sharon for a special reflection on metta — the power of the heart to stay open, even in hard times. 💛

🗓 Sunday, June 29, 2025
⏰ 10:30am–12pm ET | 16:30–18:00 CET
📍 Online via Zoom
✨ By donation – all are welcome
🔗 Link in bio or: www.CMC-NY.org/event-calendar

06/07/2025

🧘🏽‍♀️ New Yorkers! Join us in person tomorrow, June 8, from 10:30am–12:30pm at Community Meditation Center for a special morning of practice on patience and impatience—how we meet life when it doesn’t go our way.

✨Not in NYC? Join us on Zoom!
And mark your calendars for more Sunday teachings this month:
🗓️
June 15 – Carol Wilson
June 22 – Bart van Melik
June 29 – Sharon Salzberg

📍Every Sunday | 10:30am ET

🔗 www.CMC-NY.org/event-calendar

05/31/2025

“The path of liberation starts here in this moment, in this body right now.”
— nakawe cuebas berrios

Join us online this Sunday at Community Meditation Center.
We’re honored to welcome our dear friend and guest teacher, nakawe cuebas, who will guide us in exploring viriya—the pāramī of effort, energy, and perseverance.

In meditation, effort isn’t about striving or pushing. It’s the steady, compassionate energy that helps us stay present. Nakawe invites us to discover this living balance in our practice.
This session is part of our ongoing series on the 10 Pāramīs—qualities that support awakening and wise, compassionate living.

🗓 Sunday, June 1
⏰ 10:30am–12pm ET
📍 Online via Zoom
💛 By donation – all are welcome

Come renew your energy and deepen your practice in community.
🔗 www.CMC-NY.org/event-calendar

05/25/2025

“Wisdom grows when we see clearly and respond with care.”
—Oren Jay Sofer

We’re so glad to welcome our dear friend and guest teacher Oren Jay Sofer back to Community Meditation Center today for a special Sacred Sunday Pause on the theme of Wisdom.

This online talk is part of our series on the 10 Perfections (Pāramī)—an exploration of how we can train in these timeless human qualities and live them in daily life.

Sunday, May 25
10:30am-12pm ET
https://www.cmc-ny.org/event-calendar

Our Sunday sessions are freely offered. CMC is sustained by the generosity of our community of practitioners.

Join us!

05/19/2025

Don't miss guest teacher Oren Jay Sofer this Sunday at the CMC! Join us online: www.CMC-NY.org/event-calendar

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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.