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Tracy Cochran

Mindfulness Meditation

Wednesday, May 10, 2017
1:00 PM–1:45 PM
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A meditation session led by Tracy Cochran. If you missed this program, check out the podcast, now live in the Rubin Media Center.

 

For centuries Himalayan practitioners have used meditation to quiet the mind, open the heart, calm the nervous system, and increase focus. Mindfulness meditation offers both a refuge from the world around us, and an opportunity to engage with it more consciously.

Whether you’re a beginner, a dabbler, or a skilled meditator seeking the company of others, join expert teachers in a forty-five-minute weekly program. Each session is inspired by a different work of art from the Rubin Museum’s collection. Designed to fit into your lunch break, the program includes an opening talk, a twenty-minute sitting session, and a closing discussion. Chairs will be provided.

Presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg and the New York Insight Meditation Center. This program is supported in part by the Hemera Foundation.

RELATED ARTWORK
Mount Meru; Himalayan Region; 19th century; Wood with pigments; Rubin Museum of Art; C2006.43.3 (HAR 65679)
Mount Meru; Himalayan Region; 19th century; Wood with pigments; Rubin Museum of Art; C2006.43.3 (HAR 65679)
 


Theme: Focus

Mount Meru, depicted in this small Tibetan Buddhist model, is the center of our universe in the Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmologies. Though the symbolism of Meru varies from tradition to tradition, it is always a mountain of mythical proportions that connects the heavenly and earthly realms, serving also as the anchor around which all heavenly bodies orbit and as the focus of the world.

 

About the Speaker

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.

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Note: Late comers may not be admitted past 1:10 p.m., so as to not disrupt the session.

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