Triratna Meditation Center

Welcome to Triratna NYC! We’re a Buddhist sangha, or community, in New York City, with members from Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Westchester, New Jersey, and all around the NY metro area. We’re a welcoming and diverse group of men and women, with different levels of experience meditating. We’re part of the global Triratna Buddhist Order, with sanghas and centers all over the world. If you’d like to get to know us, please explore our site, enroll in one of our introductory courses, check out our blog, or contact us with any questions you have. We’d love to see you.

Meditation is a way of developing that control. Put simply, meditation is a way of stilling the mind, so that instead of random and often harmful thoughts of sorrow, anxiety, fear, and even hatred, you can put your awareness in the driver’s seat, and tame and focus your mind to develop a sense of peace, tranquility, and creativity. Meditation is simple. If you can sit quietly and focus your mind on one object of concentration – your breath, for example – gently letting other thoughts pass as they (inevitably!) try to grab your attention, and bringing your focus back to your breath, you’re meditating. It takes practice and guidance to sustain this meditative state for longer than a few seconds, and to fully reap the benefits of meditation, but to start, all you have to do is sit, focus, and breathe.