In-Person and Online: The Joy of the Dhamma – A Special Event with Bhante Buddharakkhita Buddharakkhita

New York Insight, in collaboration with Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, is honored to welcome Bhante Buddharakkhita for a special daylong program exploring The Joy of the Dhamma.

Join us for a rare opportunity to practice with a senior monastic teacher whose life and teaching embody the dharma in both formal meditation and community life, integrating inner practice with ethical action, service, and collective care.

The day will begin with a morning of guided practice and teaching from Bhante, focused on joy as an essential and cultivated quality of the path. Participants will explore how joy functions within Buddhist practice as a source of energy, clarity, and continuity, and how it can be intentionally cultivated to support wisdom, compassion, and resilience in daily life. Drawing on meditative experience and classical dharma teachings, Bhante will examine how joy arises through mindful engagement with the heart-mind and the world, and how it helps sustain practice over time.

In the afternoon, Bhante will reflect on nearly twenty years of the Uganda Buddhist Centre, which he founded and serves as abbot, offering insight into what the dharma looks like when expressed through long-term commitment, community building, and service in the world. He will then be joined in conversation by Leslie Booker, Guiding Teacher at New York Insight and the Centre’s first international guest, for a dialogue on practice, joy, and the role of community in sustaining our spiritual path.

Participants will explore joy as a cultivated and supportive aspect of Buddhist practice, gain insight into how the dharma is lived beyond formal meditation, and reflect on what it means to sustain practice through service, community, and long-term commitment.

We hope you can join us for this day of practice, reflection, and conversation. All are welcome!