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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Christine Kupfer – Week of October 9, 2023

Christine Kupfer

Christine Kupfer

We’re fortunate that Christine Kupfer has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions this week. To find out more about Christine, and to view her other contributions to Sangha Live, click here. Recordings will be posted by the end of the day of the live session.

 

This week’s topic is “Presence: At the Heart of Everything, Free from Everything”

 

I first heard this phrase when I was a young student of Zen. Since then I have practiced it every day. It is a radical proposition, an invitation to live fully. Embodied presence is transformative, healing and liberating.

At the heart of everything with heart

October 9, 2023

What is happening now, in the body?

October 10, 2023

Dropping the story

October 11, 2023

How does freeness feel?

October 12, 2023

The bliss of the new

October 13, 2023

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