Theme: Offering
Artwork: Tall Offering Table; Tibet; 19th century; wood, pigments; Rubin Museum of Art; gift of Sandy Song Yan; C2012.5;
[http://therubin.org/32i]
Teacher: Rebecca Li

The Rubin Museum presents a weekly online meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is a recording of the live online session and includes an opening talk and 20-minute sitting session. The guided meditation begins at 19:51.

This meditation is presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg, teachers from the NY Insight Meditation Center, the Interdependence Project, and Parabola Magazine.

To attend a Mindfulness Meditation online session in the future or learn more, please visit our website at RubinMuseum.org/meditation.

If you would like to support the Rubin Museum and this meditation series, we invite you to become a member and always attend for free.

Have a mindful day!

Mindfulness Meditation

Mindfulness Meditation with Rebecca Li 08/30/2021

Theme: Interdependence 
Artwork: Lords of the Charnel Ground, Smashana Adipati; Tibet; 18th century; painted terracotta; Rubin Museum of Art; 
[http://therubin.org/33e] 
Teacher: Tracy Cochran  

The Rubin Museum presents a weekly online meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is a recording of the live online session and includes an opening talk and 20-minute sitting session. The guided meditation begins at 13:45.  

This meditation is presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg, teachers from the NY Insight Meditation Center, the Interdependence Project, and Parabola Magazine.  To attend a Mindfulness Meditation online session in the future or learn more, please visit our website at RubinMuseum.org/meditation.  

If you would like to support the Rubin Museum and this meditation series, we invite you to become a member and always attend for free.  Have a mindful day!

Mindfulness Meditation with Tracy Cochran 01/24/2022

Theme: Care 
Artwork: White Tara with Long Life Deities; Tibet; 19th century; Pigments on cloth; Rubin Museum of Art, Gift of the Shelly & Donald Rubin Foundation; 
[http://therubin.org/33r] 
Teacher: Kaira Jewel Lingo  

The Rubin Museum presents a weekly online meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is a recording of the live online session and includes an opening talk and 20-minute sitting session. The guided meditation begins at 15:41.  

This meditation is presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg, teachers from the NY Insight Meditation Center, the Interdependence Project, and Parabola Magazine.  To attend a Mindfulness Meditation online session in the future or learn more, please visit our website at RubinMuseum.org/meditation.  

If you would like to support the Rubin Museum and this meditation series, we invite you to become a member and always attend for free.  Have a mindful day!

Mindfulness Meditation with Kaira Jewel Lingo 03/07/2022

Theme: Healing 
Artwork:Tibetan Bodhiseed Prayer Beads; Tibet; 19th century; Phoenix eye bodhiseed, rudraksha, and bronze; Rubin Museum of Art, Gift of Anne Breckenridge Dorsey; 
[http://therubin.org/347] 
Teacher: Lama Aria Droma

The Rubin Museum presents a weekly online meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is a recording of the live online session and includes an opening talk and 20-minute sitting session. The guided meditation begins at 17:03.  

This meditation is presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg, teachers from the NY Insight Meditation Center, the Interdependence Project, and Parabola Magazine.  To attend a Mindfulness Meditation online session in the future or learn more, please visit our website at RubinMuseum.org/meditation.  

If you would like to support the Rubin Museum and this meditation series, we invite you to become a member and always attend for free.  Have a mindful day!

Mindfulness Meditation with Lama Aria Drolma 04/18/2022

Theme: Harmony 
Artwork: Maitreya, The Future Buddha; Tibet; ca. Second quarter of the 15th century; Pigments on Cloth; Rubin Museum of Art, Gift of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation; F1998.17.2(HAR 664);
[http://therubin.org/349] 
Teacher: Lama Aria Drolma

The Rubin Museum presents a weekly online meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is a recording of the live online session and includes an opening talk and 20-minute sitting session. The guided meditation begins at 14:31.  

This meditation is presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg, teachers from the NY Insight Meditation Center, the Interdependence Project, and Parabola Magazine.  To attend a Mindfulness Meditation online session in the future or learn more, please visit our website at RubinMuseum.org/meditation.  

If you would like to support the Rubin Museum and this meditation series, we invite you to become a member and always attend for free.  Have a mindful day!

Mindfulness Meditation with Lama Aria Drolma 05/02/2022

Theme: Harmony 
Artwork: Dorje Drolo, One of Eight Manifestations of Padmasambhava; Central Tibet; 18th century; pigments on cloth; Rubin Museum of Art; gift of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation; F1996.31.14 (HAR 528);
[http://therubin.org/34a] 
Teacher: Tracy Cochran

The Rubin Museum presents a weekly online meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is a recording of the live online session and includes an opening talk and 20-minute sitting session. The guided meditation begins at 15:57.  

This meditation is presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg, teachers from the NY Insight Meditation Center, the Interdependence Project, and Parabola Magazine.  To attend a Mindfulness Meditation online session in the future or learn more, please visit our website at RubinMuseum.org/meditation.  

If you would like to support the Rubin Museum and this meditation series, we invite you to become a member and always attend for free.  Have a mindful day!

Mindfulness Meditation with Tracy Cochran 05/09/2022

Theme: Harmony 
Artwork: Agni, God of Fire; China; first half of the 15th century; Pigments on cloth, embroidered textile mount; Rubin Museum of Art; C2004.4.1 (HAR 65270);
[http://therubin.org/34f] 
Teacher: Rebecca Li  

The Rubin Museum presents a weekly online meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is a recording of the live online session and includes an opening talk and 20-minute sitting session. The guided meditation begins at 19:46.  

This meditation is presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg, teachers from the NY Insight Meditation Center, the Interdependence Project, and Parabola Magazine.  To attend a Mindfulness Meditation online session in the future or learn more, please visit our website at RubinMuseum.org/meditation.  

If you would like to support the Rubin Museum and this meditation series, we invite you to become a member and always attend for free.  Have a mindful day!

Mindfulness Meditation with Rebecca Li 05/16/2022

Theme: Harmony 
Artwork: The Demoness of Tibet; Tibet; Early 20th century; Pigments on cloth; Rubin Museum of Art;
[http://therubin.org/34g] 
Teacher: Sharon Salzberg

The Rubin Museum presents a weekly online meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is a recording of the live online session and includes an opening talk and 20-minute sitting session. The guided meditation begins at 11:05.  

This meditation is presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg, teachers from the NY Insight Meditation Center, the Interdependence Project, and Parabola Magazine.  To attend a Mindfulness Meditation online session in the future or learn more, please visit our website at RubinMuseum.org/meditation.  

If you would like to support the Rubin Museum and this meditation series, we invite you to become a member and always attend for free.  Have a mindful day!

Mindfulness Meditation with Sharon Slazberg 05/23/2022

Theme: Transformation 
Artwork: Wheel of Life; Tibet; 19th century; pigments on cloth; Rubin Museum of Art; Gift of Shelley and Donald Rubin;
[http://therubin.org/34l] 
Teacher: Rebecca Li  

The Rubin Museum presents a weekly online meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is a recording of the live online session and includes an opening talk and 20-minute sitting session. The guided meditation begins at 19:18.  

This meditation is presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg, teachers from the NY Insight Meditation Center, the Interdependence Project, and Parabola Magazine.  To attend a Mindfulness Meditation online session in the future or learn more, please visit our website at RubinMuseum.org/meditation.  

If you would like to support the Rubin Museum and this meditation series, we invite you to become a member and always attend for free.  Have a mindful day!

Mindfulness Meditation with Rebecca Li 06/06/2022

Theme: Transformation 
Artwork: Five-prong Bell & Dorje Set; Probable Urga or Dolonor (Mongolia); ca. late 19th century; silver, metal (Li, five metal compound); Rubin Museum of Art, Gift of Phillip J. Rudko;
[http://therubin.org/34r] 
Teacher: Sharon Salzberg

The Rubin Museum presents a weekly online meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is a recording of the live online session and includes an opening talk and 20-minute sitting session. The guided meditation begins at 19:16.  

This meditation is presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg, teachers from the NY Insight Meditation Center, the Interdependence Project, and Parabola Magazine.  To attend a Mindfulness Meditation online session in the future or learn more, please visit our website at RubinMuseum.org/meditation.  

If you would like to support the Rubin Museum and this meditation series, we invite you to become a member and always attend for free.  Have a mindful day!

Mindfulness Meditation with Sharon Slazberg 06/27/2022

Theme: Renewal 
Artwork: The Fifth Dalai Lama Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso (1617-1682) with Previous Incarnations; Central Tibet; 18th century; pigments on cloth; 
[http://therubin.org/34s] 
Teacher: Tracy Cochran

The Rubin Museum presents a weekly online meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is a recording of the live online session and includes an opening talk and 20-minute sitting session. The guided meditation begins at 17:03.  

This meditation is presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg, teachers from the NY Insight Meditation Center, the Interdependence Project, and Parabola Magazine.  To attend a Mindfulness Meditation online session in the future or learn more, please visit our website at RubinMuseum.org/meditation.  

If you would like to support the Rubin Museum and this meditation series, we invite you to become a member and always attend for free.  Have a mindful day!

Mindfulness Meditation with Tracy Cochran 07/11/2022

Theme: Kindness 
Artwork: Buddha Shakyamuni and Stories of his Previous Lives Tibet; mid-late 14th century; Pigments on cloth; Rubin Museum of Art, Gift of Shelley and Donald Rubin;
[http://therubin.org/34-] 
Teacher: Sharon Salzberg

The Rubin Museum presents a weekly online meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is a recording of the live online session and includes an opening talk and 20-minute sitting session. The guided meditation begins at 13:04.  

This meditation is presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg, teachers from the NY Insight Meditation Center, the Interdependence Project, and Parabola Magazine.  To attend a Mindfulness Meditation online session in the future or learn more, please visit our website at RubinMuseum.org/meditation.  

If you would like to support the Rubin Museum and this meditation series, we invite you to become a member and always attend for free.  Have a mindful day!

Mindfulness Meditation with Sharon Salzberg 08/01/22/2022

Mindfulness Meditation with Sharon Salzberg 08/01/2022

Theme: Kindness 
Artwork: Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Nepal; 13th-14th century; Gilt copper alloy with semiprecious stone inlay; Rubin Museum of Art; 
[http://therubin.org/351] 
Teacher: Lama Aria Drolma  

The Rubin Museum presents a weekly online meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is a recording of the live online session and includes an opening talk and 20-minute sitting session. The guided meditation begins at 13:08. 

This meditation is presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg, teachers from the NY Insight Meditation Center, the Interdependence Project, and Parabola Magazine.  To attend a Mindfulness Meditation online session in the future or learn more, please visit our website at RubinMuseum.org/meditation.  

If you would like to support the Rubin Museum and this meditation series, we invite you to become a member and always attend for free.  Have a mindful day!

Mindfulness Meditation with Lama Aria Drolma 08-15-2022

Mindfulness Meditation with Lama Aria Drolma 08/15/2022

Artist Uma Bista uses her camera to capture powerful visual stories that address gender inequality. Her photograph project “Stay Home Sisters” explores menstrual taboos in Nepal and highlights narratives of resistance and the agency of young women.
 
This poem, written and recited by Uma Bista, accompanies her artwork in the “Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now” exhibition at the Rubin Museum. It is about the story of a woman who endured a twelve-day confinement during her first menstruation.
Read a transcript of the poem

Uma Bista - Poem

A conversation series exploring the nature of faith and pilgrimage between two people from different walks of life, differing spiritual experiences. This series complements the exhibition "Pilgrimage & Faith: Buddhism, Christianity and Islam" now on view at the Rubin Museum of Art.

This conversation took place on June 1st, 2011 at the Rubin Museum of Art. For more related events, please visit: www.rmanyc.org/pilgrimage

The Road That Teaches: Gloria Steinem + Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

Do you feel like you’re running out of time? Which way is it going? Are you able to stop time? If so, how? Many objects in the Rubin’s collection of Himalayan art reflect the Buddhist concept of time, including the interconnected nature of the past and future. About Time aims to reframe our perspective on time and its impact on our lives. 

Performance artist, electronic music pioneer, and filmmaker Laurie Anderson invited a group of her favorite writers, thinkers, and poets to tackle the big questions about time. In this episode, Laurie spends time with the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi—president and CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT. One of the leading arguments for AI is that it will save us all time. What will we do with the extra time? Does that freed up time have a moral value? So many questions, too little time. This conversation took place on stage at the Rubin in 2024.

About the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art
The Rubin is a global museum dedicated to presenting Himalayan art and its insights through exhibitions, participatory experiences, a dynamic digital platform, and partnerships. Inspired and informed by Himalayan art, the Rubin invites people to contemplate the human experience and deepen connections with the world around them in order to expand awareness, enhance well-being, and cultivate compassion.

Listen to the full About Time series: https://rubinmuseum.org/about-time

Laurie Anderson: About Time with Venerable Tenzin Priyadarsh

Do you feel like you’re running out of time? Which way is it going? Are you able to stop time? If so, how? Many objects in the Rubin’s collection of Himalayan art reflect the Buddhist concept of time, including the interconnected nature of the past and future. About Time aims to reframe our perspective on time and its impact on our lives. 

Performance artist, electronic music pioneer, and filmmaker Laurie Anderson invited a group of her favorite writers, thinkers, and poets to tackle the big questions about time. In the episode, Laurie Anderson and novelist and artist Tom McCarthy have a wide-ranging dialogue about everything from Sigmund Freud to Super Mario to unravel whether time is just a construct of our minds and what the role trauma and memory play in maintaining it. This conversation took place on stage at the Rubin in 2024.

About the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art
The Rubin is a global museum dedicated to presenting Himalayan art and its insights through exhibitions, participatory experiences, a dynamic digital platform, and partnerships. Inspired and informed by Himalayan art, the Rubin invites people to contemplate the human experience and deepen connections with the world around them in order to expand awareness, enhance well-being, and cultivate compassion.

Listen to the full About Time series: rubinmuseum.org/about-time

Laurie Anderson: About Time with Tom McCarthy

Do you feel like you’re running out of time? Which way is it going? Are you able to stop time? If so, how? Many objects in the Rubin’s collection of Himalayan art reflect the Buddhist concept of time, including the interconnected nature of the past and future. About Time aims to reframe our perspective on time and its impact on our lives. 

Performance artist, electronic music pioneer, and filmmaker Laurie Anderson invited a group of her favorite writers, thinkers, and poets to tackle the big questions about time. In this episode, Laurie has a freewheeling conversation with poet Jane Hirschfield, who is known as one of American poetry’s central spokespersons for the biosphere. Her poems display that exquisite ability to observe the monumentality of existence in the smallest facets of nature and our nature. This conversation took place on stage at the Rubin in 2024.

About the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art
The Rubin is a global museum dedicated to presenting Himalayan art and its insights through exhibitions, participatory experiences, a dynamic digital platform, and partnerships. Inspired and informed by Himalayan art, the Rubin invites people to contemplate the human experience and deepen connections with the world around them in order to expand awareness, enhance well-being, and cultivate compassion.

Listen to the full About Time series: rubinmuseum.org/about-time

Laurie Anderson: About Time with Jane Hirshfield

Do you feel like you’re running out of time? Which way is it going? Are you able to stop time? If so, how? Many objects in the Rubin’s collection of Himalayan art reflect the Buddhist concept of time, including the interconnected nature of the past and future. About Time aims to reframe our perspective on time and its impact on our lives. 

Performance artist, electronic music pioneer, and filmmaker Laurie Anderson invited a group of her favorite writers, thinkers, and poets to tackle the big questions about time. In a lively discussion that covers everything from déjà vu to Dune, Laurie and novelist Benjamín Labatut explore the concept of what is real and what is not. This conversation took place on stage at the Rubin in 2024.

About the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art
The Rubin is a global museum dedicated to presenting Himalayan art and its insights through exhibitions, participatory experiences, a dynamic digital platform, and partnerships. Inspired and informed by Himalayan art, the Rubin invites people to contemplate the human experience and deepen connections with the world around them in order to expand awareness, enhance well-being, and cultivate compassion.

Listen to the full About Time series: rubinmuseum.org/about-time

Laurie Anderson: About Time with Benjamín Labatut

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge explains h/er exhibition at the Rubin Museum of Art as symbolic of overall artistic process. 

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on h/er exhibition as a symbol

Artist Bob Bielecki describes the process of recording in natural environments and its relationship to our sensory experiences. 
 
This audio excerpt is presented in association with the exhibition The World Is Sound.

The Third Ear | Bob Bielecki

This isn’t your average book club. Beginning with this special two-part program and opening reception, the Tibetan Book of the Dead Book Club will draw comparisons between the ancient text and modern-day perspectives on mortality.

Break open the Tibetan Book of the Dead with Buddhist scholar Ramon Prats and professor Terry Williams to take on a goliath of a topic: teenage suicide. Committing suicide while in a state of mental distress has serious karmic implications in Buddhist practice and suicide is the third-leading cause of death for fifteen- to twenty-four-year-olds in the United States. Terry Williams, author of the book Teenage Suicide Notes, evaluates the states of mind of the young people in rural and urban contexts and across lines of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation who have committed suicide or contemplated doing harm to themselves. Can Tibetan Buddhist traditions offer a helpful perspective?

Find out more about this program:
http://rubinmuseum.org/events/event/teenage-suicide-06-14-2017

Teenage Suicide: Terry Williams + Ramon N. Prats

This isn’t your average book club. Break open The Tibetan Book of the Dead with bardo scholar Ramon Prats and draw comparisons between the ancient text and modern-day perspectives on mortality.

Club Meeting #2: Need Dying Be Traumatic?

Death is neither shocking nor traumatic in Tibetan Buddhist culture. Instead, it is rehearsed and extensively prepared for. Our lack of preparation in the West—some would call it denial—can lead to greater suffering than is necessary.

Read the Passage from the Program:
http://bit.ly/2sfwQzf

Find out more about this program:
http://bit.ly/2uaPZDQ

Need Dying Be Traumatic? Mark Epstein + Ramon N. Prats

This isn’t your average book club. Break open The Tibetan Book of the Dead with bardo scholar Ramon Prats and draw comparisons between the ancient text and modern-day perspectives on mortality.

Club Meeting #3: The Death-Defying Power of Reading

When Will Schwalbe would accompany his mother to her chemotherapy sessions, they devised a way to free them to talk about mortality: they traded books and discussed them. These discussions became the basis for Will Schwalbe’s beloved New York Times bestselling memoir The End of Your Life Book Club. Will is a firm believer in the power of books to change existing lives. The Tibetan Book of the Dead is about the power to change future lives. Compare.

Read the Passage from the Program:
bit.ly/2sfwQzf

Find out more about this program:
http://bit.ly/2tqFVt5

The Death-Defying Power of Reading with Will Schwalbe + Ramon N. Prats

This isn’t your average book club. Break open The Tibetan Book of the Dead with bardo scholar Ramon Prats and draw comparisons between the ancient text and modern-day perspectives on mortality.

Club Meeting #4: Mystical Hallucinations

Can mystical experiences alleviate a fear of death? Tony Bossis is an investigator and session guide for the NYU Psilocybin Cancer Anxiety Project, a clinical trial investigating the efficacy of a psilocybin-generated mystical experience alleviating distress in persons with cancer. In the Tibetan understanding of transition, the hallucinations witnessed in the bardo, or transitional state, after death need to be recognized as illusory forms of attachment. Otherwise one is bound to be reborn.


Find out more about this program:
http://bit.ly/2tbEQq6

Mystical Hallucinations with Anthony Bossis + Ramon N. Prats

Vajrayogini (Mantra), Audio: Lama Ugen Rongdrol Palden, Lama Rapjee Wangchuk, and Lama Jigmey Tenzin of Namdroling Nyingmapa Monastery, Arlikumari, Karnataka, India and Palyul Retreat Center, McDonough, NY, Audio Installation, Rubin Museum of Art

Vajrayogini Mantra

Is destiny hereditary? Can the ancient concept of karma help us understand genetics? Vedanta Society’s Swami Sarvapriyananda meets with leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell to trace human diversity and individual differences to their deepest level. In his new book Innate Dr. Mitchell argues it all lies in the wiring of our brains. Will Swami Sarvapriyananda argue otherwise?

More about the Karma series:
http://rubinmuseum.org/karma

Swami Sarvapriyananda + Kevin Mitchell: Genetics Is Karma

Vajrayogini 
Tibet; 18th century
Brass and gilt copper alloy
Rubin Museum of Art
C2005.16.47 (HAR 65470)

Track 4: Vajrayogini: Power of Female Buddhahood

Theme: Hopes and Anxieties
Artwork: Peaceful & Wrathful Deities of the Bardo; [http://therubin.org/2zo]
Teacher: Tracy Cochran

While the Rubin Museum of Art is temporarily closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, we want to stay connected with you. We are sharing a previously recorded meditation session with you and hope that it will provide support during this uncertain time.

The Rubin Museum presents a weekly meditation session led by a prominent meditation teacher from the New York area, with each session focusing on a specific work of art. This podcast is recorded in front of a live audience in Chelsea, New York City, and includes an opening talk and 20-minute sitting session. The guided meditation begins at 17:25.

This meditation is presented in partnership with Sharon Salzberg, teachers from the NY Insight Meditation Center, the Interdependence Project, and Parabola Magazine.

To attend a Mindfulness Meditation sessions in the future or learn more, please visit our website at RubinMuseum.org/meditation.

If you would like to support the Rubin Museum and this meditation series, we invite you to become a member and attend in person for free.

Have a mindful day!

Mindfulness Meditation with Tracy Cochran Repost from 10/17/2018

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