Mindfulness Meditation with Tracy Cochran at Rubin Museum
Tracy Cochran leads a mindfulness meditation session themed 'Lasting Happiness' at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art. The session is guided and begins at 13:12. Cochran is a speaker and author of 'Presence: The Art of Being At Home in Yourself' (Shambhala Publications, 2024). She founded the Hudson River Sangha and has taught at New York Insight and the Rubin Museum. The meditation is accompanied by a 17th-century Tibetan painting depicting a terrestrial paradise with Mount Wutai and Mount Kailash, featuring a chakravartin ruler and bodhisattvas Green Tara, Maitreya, and Avalokiteshvara. The Four Harmonious Friends symbolize unity for lasting happiness.
Key facts
- Tracy Cochran leads the meditation session.
- Theme is 'Lasting Happiness'.
- Guided meditation begins at 13:12.
- Painting: 'Sacred Earthly Realms and Heavenly Paradises', Central Tibet, 17th century.
- Medium: pigments on cloth.
- Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, Gift of Shelley and Donald Rubin.
- Mount Wutai and Mount Kailash depicted.
- Four Harmonious Friends (elephant, monkey, hare, partridge) represent unity.
Entities
Artists
- Tracy Cochran
Institutions
- Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art
- Shambhala Publications
- Hudson River Sangha
- New York Insight
- Parabola
- The New York Times
- New York Magazine
- Psychology Today
Locations
- Tibet
- Mount Wutai
- Mount Kailash
- Mount Tsari
- Hudson River