Mindfulness Meditation · Appreciation
This week’s meditation session is led by Elaine Retholtz and the theme is Appreciation. The guided meditation begins at 11:54.
Offerings (2014); Palden Weinreb; 2014; Mix media
Making offerings is an integral part of Buddhist practices such as religious rituals and ceremonies. The act can be understood as sharing something and giving it away to a religious community or sacred space. Offerings can take many forms, from words and sounds to fluids, food, incense, and flowers, as well as symbolic and abstract representations.
In the Rubin’s Shrine Room adjacent to this 2023 installation, seven stemmed bowls with auspicious symbols function as receptacles to receive offerings. Offerings bowls in a shrine room are usually arranged in a straight line. In the installation Offerings, artist Palden Weinreb invites us to experience the receptacles in a circular arrangement.
Elaine Retholtz has been studying and practicing the Dharma since 1988. In addition to teaching dharma at New York Insight, she is a certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher and a certified MBSR teacher trainer. She is deeply interested in helping students integrate mindfulness into daily life. Elaine is committed to deepening her own understanding of issues of diversity and the way racial conditioning in the United States affects all of us—both as individuals and in relation to the institutions we are a part of, including New York Insight.
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