Last Sunday of every month
12 - 1:30 pm EST
Online via Zoom
Event Description:
Please join us on the last Sunday of every month for a gathering for people practicing the Dharma, at any stage of that journey and experience, and who also come from the richly diverse lived experiences of these intentionally-welcomed identities: Black, Indigenous, and people of color, inclusive of Asian/Pacific Islander, Southeast Asian, Native Hawaiian, Latinx, Arab/Middle Eastern, biracial, mixed heritage, multiracial, and those identifying as anything other than white. We will come together to meditate and discuss how the Buddha’s teachings are relevant to our lives.
Agenda:
Gathering
Meditation
Dharma talk and discussion
Closing
2026 Dates:
March 29
April 26
May 31
June 28
July 26
August 30
September 27
October 25
November 29
December 27
About the Leaders:
Jayasuri has been a practicing Triratna Buddhist for more than 30 years and was ordained in 2022. Since her ordination, she has been teaching meditation at both the West London Buddhist Centre (WLBC) and the London Buddhist Centre (LBC), and has co-led several retreats.
She has played an active role in developing POC retreats and meditation days. She is part of the leadership team that created the POC Buddhafield community space, helping to make Triratna more accessible to POC communities.
Jayasuri is an ordained Buddhist, mother, grandparent, integrative psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and mindful movement facilitator. She loves life, people, places, dancing, music, art, and nature.
Suryapala is an Ordained Dharmachari in the Triratna Buddhist Community since 2024 and has been practicing meditation regularly for eight years. He began his Buddhist journey in the United Kingdom, and for the last several years has been an active member of the New York/New Jersey sangha.
Dr. Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John is a senior dharma teacher in the Triratna Buddhist Community. Dr. Ken Hardy named them as "one of the premier social, cultural, and psychological healers of our times." Author of 11 books, co-founder of Freedom Together: a mindfulness course for and by the BIPOC community. And they are a founding facilitator of Dr Gabor Mates Compassionate Inquiry.
The child of Chinese immigrants, Viveka resides on Ohlone Land (San Francisco) and has spent 35 years at the intersection of social-racial-gender justice and spiritual practice. A senior meditation teacher, former San Francisco Buddhist Center Chair, and current President of the Triratna NY-NJ and Mexico City Sanghas, they lead retreats internationally with a trauma-informed approach. Viveka’s dharma teaching and community work as a facilitator and somatic coach and trainer centers on healing and radical inclusivity.
rodashruti was introduced to the Dharma and the concept of cultural appropriation at the same time. Struggling with how to approach Buddhist practice as a person with roots in American, Syrian, and Irish heritage, she continues to reflect on ethical cultural exchange, using Buddhist precepts as best she can as a guide for walking through the world without making things worse. Her practice has focused on living with autoimmune disease, turning toward suffering, engaging with the world, and the balancing influence of meditation and study on action.
Mokshasi (she/they) - A queer, mixed-race Mexican psychotherapist and Dharma practitioner, Mokshasi lives on Ohlone land (San Francisco), where migration has shaped her inner and outer life over the past six years. Moving across borders, languages, and cultures — and the experience of having lived as a queer woman in Mexico — has deeply influenced how she understands belonging, care, safety, and practice. A co-founder of the Buddhist Center Cuernavaca and the Chintamani Retreat Center in Mexico, she currently supports the San Francisco Buddhist Center and holds particular care for immigrants, Spanish-speaking, bilingual and bicultural communities, Latinos/as and queer practitioners. Her practice is shaped by what she has lived and what has hurt, and from that space she accompanies others. Her work and facilitation emphasize meditation as a shared, relational practice — rooted in warmth, deep listening, love, and a commitment to honoring our differences while practicing together.
Dayavasini is an Ordained Dharmacharini in the Triratna Buddhist Order. She became involved with Triratna in Mexico City in 2008 and was ordained at Adhisthana in 2016. She supported and later led Triratna Pachuca, a Buddhist community in Mexico, until 2023. From 2020 to 2025, she coordinated Tierra Adentro, an online Spanish-speaking Triratna community, supporting meditation practice, study, and community building internationally. Dayavasini currently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she coordinates Triratna Nova Scotia, a meditation group started in June 2025, helping build welcoming and inclusive spaces for meditation and Buddhist practice.
Khemadhara (she/her) is a Mexican practitioner living in Texas, USA, for the past five years. Migration has been a turning point in how she relates to her sense of identity, belonging, and community. She works with young migrants as they find their way in new social worlds while remaining rooted in inherited identities — shared inquiries that continue to inform and enrich her Buddhist practice. Within Triratna, she leads Spanish-language meditation sessions for Tierra Adentro and offers translation and linguistic accompaniment for events, helping make dharmic practice more accessible to Spanish-speaking communities.
Sukhamayā has been connected with the Triratna sangha since her teenage years, a relationship that has grown over more than forty years through practice, friendship, and deep listening. The Dharma has been a steady source of refuge in her life, encouraging compassion, ethical living, and service. Born in India, she moved to the United States in 1999. Ordained in 2024, she continues her practice with gratitude and is delighted to be an active member of the New York and Aryaloka sanghas, offering her support to the community that has supported her for so long.
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