Welcome

Welcome to the Buffalo Mindfulness Community Website!

The Buffalo Mindfulness Community is a group of local meditation practitioners that gather weekly to share the present moment within the space of silent meditation and to listen to talks by various recognized meditation teachers. While the emphasis of the group is toward the practice of Mindfulness (also called Vipassana or Insight Meditation), members trained in other tradtions and people new to meditation have found our peer based approach welcoming.  Prior meditation experience is not required.  All that is necessary is the willingness to let the mind calm by sitting still in silence with others and to listen to talks by senior meditation teachers.

Details about our weekly sitting appear below and you can use the menu on the top of this page to find out more about our group’s vision and mission.

Our Home

The Buffalo Mindfulness Community meets each and every Wednesday at The Little White Church (Newman Center) on Frontier Road at the corner of the Audubon Parkway.  This location, on the perimeter of the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus, has ample and free parking.

Meditation begins at 7:30pm (doors open around 7:00pm) and sessions end around 9:00pm.  All people are welcome and all events are free.

The format is as follows:

• Sitting Meditation (~25 minutes)
• Brief Walking Meditation (~5 minutes)
• Sitting Meditation (~25 minutes)
• Brief Walking Meditation (~5 minutes)
• Audio Tape Teaching or Another Round of Sitting (~30 minutes)

The Buffalo Mindfulness Community has no religious affiliation but is rooted in Vipassana Meditation and the universal teachings of the historical Buddha.