Mindfulness Meditation · Community
This week’s meditation session is led by Tracy Cochran and the theme is Community. The guided meditation begins at 14:20.
Lama Performing a Long-Life Ritual; Kham Province, Eastern Tibet; 19th century; Pigments on cloth; 29 3/8 x 19 3/4 in. (estimated); Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, Gift of Shelley and Donald Rubin; C2006.66.421
This thangka painting is a 19th-century work from Tibet. It depicts a lama performing a ritual intended to bring long life, a common practice throughout the Himalayas. He sits holding a vajra scepter and a long-life vase with a table of offerings in front of him. As holders of the Buddhist tradition, lamas are traditionally at the center of their communities, with their work often extending beyond religion into all matters of community life.
Tracy Cochran has been a student and teacher of meditation and spiritual practice for decades. She is the founder of the Hudson River Sangha. In addition to offering meditation online, Tracy has taught mindfulness meditation and mindful writing at the Rubin Museum and the New York Insight Meditation Center, as well as in schools, corporations, and other venues worldwide. She is also a writer and the editorial director of Parabola, an acclaimed quarterly magazine that seeks to bring timeless spiritual wisdom to the burning questions of the day.
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