The Four Noble Truths
Led By: Ananta
Each Monday evening from June 2nd to June 23rd 2025
6:30 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. EST
Online via Zoom
Description:
Every Monday night, join us for a welcoming class designed to nurture your mind, heart, and spirit. Each month, we’ll explore a new theme that draws from mindfulness, Buddhist teachings, and practical tools for daily life.
🌿 June’s Theme: The Four Noble Truths
🌿 Drop-in format: Come to any or all sessions — no commitment required!
🌿 Open to everyone, no experience necessary.
From guided meditations to thought-provoking discussions, each session is a chance to reflect, grow, and connect.
The Four Noble Truths are essential an teaching from early Buddhism that are saying basic things about our lives: we suffer, there is a cause of suffering, we can end this suffering, and here’s how. The Truths point to liberation and freedom that we can experience and live from. They are practical and applicable to our everyday lives.
Agenda:
Brief meditation
Check-in
Week’s leader will discuss the material
Small group discussion
Reconvene with the entire class
Short closing meditation (if time permits)
About the Leader:
Ananta has practiced within the Triratna Buddhist Community for 25 years. He has spent over three years on retreat. He was Ordained in 2007 and is a leading teacher of Triratna New York and of the Triratna US & Canada Men’s ordination training team.
He is the CEO of Karuna USA, a Buddhist-inspired international nonprofit tackling poverty and discrimination in South Asia, and formerly led global youth empowerment initiatives with the United Nations. He is a certified Mindfulness teacher with Brown University.
Class Registration:
Complete the Google Form below.
Payment Info:
Suggested donation of $10-$25 per class.