The Interdependence Project | Secular Buddhist Meditation and Living with Mindfulness

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Change Your Mind to Change the World: The Practice of Ethics, Concentration, and Wisdom

May 24 & 25 Friday 7-9 pm and Saturday 10-5 pm “Ethics means living with intentions that reflect our love and compassion for ourselves as well as others.” Sharon Salzberg In Buddhism, the Three Trainings, also called the Three Pillars, are described as ethics, concentration, and wisdom....

Back to Basics: The Eightfold Path of Awakening

Join Shastri Ethan Nichtern and IDP Lineage Mentor Sharon Salzberg in this exciting online summer series. This course is only offered as part of IDP's unique Home Study program, and will provide you with everything you need to deepen and support your studies. Along with eight insightful...

Online Course -- Buddhist Studies: A Tantric Approach To Meditation, Ethics and Emotions with Shastri Ethan Nichtern

Audio Lectures are available two days following the class session. They come in mp3 format and and may be streamed from this website, or downloaded and listened at your convenience. Interested in attending class live in NYC? Click here. Join Shastri Ethan ...

Weekend Retreat - Understanding Karma

June 14, 15, 16 Friday 7-9 pm, Saturday 10-6 pm, Sunday 10-1:30 pm“Karma is popularly used to describe a sort of “divine plan" that includes its own system of punishment and reward. But the Sanskrit word karma simply means activity. Karma is the natural, impersonal law of cause and effect."...

Secular Buddhist Studies Program at IDP

The Secular Buddhist Studies Program at the Interdependence Project offers a strong and accessible foundation in Buddhist meditation, psychology, philosophy, and ethics that includes multiple traditions and bodies of teaching. Composed of a diverse series of weekly courses and four...

Sundays - Beginner's Mind - Weekly Guided Meditation

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” ― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Join us every Sunday from 3pm - 5pm for meditation instruction and sitting practice led by IDP teachers David and Heather. Appropriate for beginners as well...

Study at Home -- Wednesday Nights - The Heat is On: Making Friends with Anger

Study at Home -- Buddhism & Psychology - Bringing Practice to Life

Study at Home -- Buddhist Studies: The Dharma of Difference

Home Study for this series is free for Monthly Members. Please email caitlin@theidproject.org to register. If you're not a Member, please consider becoming one today! Audio Lectures are available two days following the class session. They come in mp3 format and and may be streamed from...

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Featured Events

Monday Nights - Buddhism & Psychology - Bringing Practice to Life

Mon, 6/10/2013, 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Eight Week Series Monday Nights 6/10 - 7/29 Interested in Home Study? Click here.

Weekend Retreat - Understanding Karma

Fri, 6/14/2013, 7:00pm - Sun, 6/16/2013, 1:30pm

June 14, 15, 16 Friday 7-9 pm, Saturday 10-6 pm, Sunday 10-1:30 pm“Karma is popularly used to describe a sort of “divine plan" that includes its own...

Back to Basics: The Eightfold Path of Awakening

Thu, 7/11/2013, 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Join Shastri Ethan Nichtern and IDP Lineage Mentor Sharon Salzberg in this exciting online summer series. This course is only offered as part of...

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Blog

The Shambhala Principle Reviewed May 19

by Ethan Nichtern

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche has just published his fourth major book, The Shambhala Principle, and I’ve been lucky enough to spend a...

Advice to Graduates May 18

by Nancy Thompson

“Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all." --...

Ecosystemic Liberation: David Loy's New Take on the Bodhisattva May 17

by Caroline Contillo

In the opening paragraphs of his new blog post at HuffPo, Zen teacher and author David Loy very accurately spells out the activist burnout many...

Podcasts & Videos

What is Meditation? With Kimberly Brown and Kate Johnson Part 2 May 15

Why do we meditate? Why don't we meditate? How does it aid mental health and well-...

What is Meditation? With Kimberly Brown and Kate Johnson Part 1 May 1

Why do we meditate? Why don't we meditate? How does it aid mental health and well-being?...

Is Guilt Necessary? Part 2 of 2 April 15

Recorded live at IDP in NYC in February 2013, Ethan Nichtern discusses...