Mindfulness Meditation
With Tracy Cochran
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
1:00 PM–1:45 PM
A meditation session led by Tracy Cochran
Himalayan practitioners have, for centuries, used meditation to quiet the mind, open the heart, calm the nervous system, and increase one’s ability to focus. Now, western scientists, business leaders, and the secular world have embraced meditation as a vital tool for brain health.
Whether you’re a brand-new beginner, a dabbler, or a skilled meditator seeking the company of others, join expert teachers in a 45-minute weekly program designed to fit into your lunch break. Each session will be inspired by a different work of art from the Rubin Museum’s collection, and will include an opening talk, a 20-minute sitting session, and a closing discussion. Chairs will be provided.
Presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg and the New York Insight Meditation Center.
Related Artwork
Theme: Intention
Standing with his right hand in front of his heart, this 18th century depiction of Bodhisattva Suryabaskara holds a lotus flower that extends and blooms over his right shoulder. Within the flower rests an orange Sun referencing this bodhisattva’s name which translates to “the Sun’s rays.” The defining feature of a bodhisattva is the intention to become enlightened so that he or she can help all other beings become enlightened. Therefore practice is not complete unless the practitioner keeps this intention in mind and realizes that ultimately the benefits are for others and not for oneself.
About the Teacher
Tracy Cochran is editorial director of Parabola, a quarterly magazine that for forty years has drawn on the world’s cultural and wisdom traditions to explore the questions that all humans share. She has been a student of meditation and spiritual practices for decades and teaches mindfulness meditation and mindful writing at New York Insight Meditation Center and throughout the greater New York area. In addition to Parabola, her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Psychology Today, O Magazine, New York Magazine, the Boston Review, and many other publications and anthologies. For more information please visit tracycochran.org.