With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : April 15, 2024
This week's topic is "The Dharma and the Drama: Illuminating Heart and World". Each day this week, Martin will offer some brief reflections as an introduction to meditating together, with the dual focus of...
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With
George Haas
Recorded : April 14, 2024
We will discuss Attachment Theory in the context of Buddhist Theravada Practice, exploring the traditional Buddhist path to liberation using descriptions of Attachment conditioning as a way to understand obstacles to practice. We will...
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : April 8, 2024
This week's theme is "All Life is Practice". In this week of exploring the four noble truths together, we will take a good look at the eightfold path and relate it to our own...
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With
Emily Horn
Recorded : April 7, 2024
Similar to the phases of the moon, our spiritual practice is full of natural rhythms and seasons. In this session we will learn a simple chart, called the phases of insight, that supports recognizing what...
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With
Nathan Glyde
Recorded : April 1, 2024
This week's topic is "Liberating View". The Buddha recommended adopting three skilful and liberating views: that all things are transient; that they cannot bring long-term happiness; and that phenomena are not self. These provide...
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With
Nikki Mirghafori
Recorded : March 31, 2024
What is equanimity, and how does it differ from indifference? What different forms and subtleties of equanimity are presented in various Buddhist teachings, often occupying the prestigious last spot on the lists? How does...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : March 25, 2024
This week's topic is "Human nature, Buddha nature". Each day this week we’ll begin meditation with a reflection on elements of human nature that can be welcomed, explored and transformed through a path of...
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With
Oren Jay Sofer
Recorded : March 24, 2024
How do we keep the heart open and strong amidst so much pain and suffering in our world? What does our contemplative practice have to offer in times of upheaval and change? Join author...
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With
Ayala Gill
Recorded : March 18, 2024
This week's topic is "Love’s Flavours and Flow". Love never leaves us. It’s already here in each thought, sight, taste, smell, sound, sensation and movement. Love is already here, resting beside each pain, celebrating...
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With
Anna-Brown Griswold
Recorded : March 17, 2024
Based in the Buddhist tradition, Insight Dialogue harnesses the power of relationship to amplify, refine, and accelerate the development of mindfulness. Consisting of 6 meditative guidelines practiced in dyads or more, the practice supports the...
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With
Sophie Boyer
Recorded : March 11, 2024
This week's topic is "To Be on the Road Without Leaving Home". Zen Master Hakuin reveals an apparent tension between movement and stillness in this statement. What may the road refer to? What is...
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With
Dave Smith
Recorded : March 10, 2024
So much of what we hear and learn about within Dharma practice places an arguably unnecessary emphasis on suffering (dukkha). While the acceptance of suffering (dukkha) is an important and essential aspect of the...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : March 4, 2024
This week's topic is "Wide and Deep: an Integrated Practice in Meditation and in Life". This week at Sangha live, the morning meditations with Martin will draw each day on elements of dharma practice...
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With
Roshi Joan Halifax
Recorded : March 3, 2024
We will explore through practice and teachings the importance of “appamada” or heedfulness, conscientiousness, or what Stephen Batchelor has translated as care. Appamada has been called the path to the deathless. ” Just as the...
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With
Christine Kupfer
Recorded : February 26, 2024
This week's topic is "Fear and Fearlessness in the Midst of Uncertainty". We try to secure our lives by any means necessary. We do our best, we tend to our business, and boom!, a...
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With
Sean Oakes
Recorded : February 25, 2024
This weekend is the Buddhist full moon ritual known as Māgha Pūjā, one of the three great festival days in the Theravāda Buddhist calendar, also known as “Saṅgha Day,” celebrating the spiritual community. The...
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With
Miles Kessler
Recorded : February 19, 2024
What is your relationship to fear? When fear arises, is your tendency to collapse into it, or to resist and struggle with it? Or do you deny it? How do you know if you...
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With
Peace Twesigye
Recorded : February 18, 2024
Many people have encountered the Buddha’s teachings when learning to meditate. Many more people in the world, however, have learned about the Buddha through stories imparting lessons about how to live wisely. Why is...
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With
Christopher Titmuss
Recorded : February 12, 2024
Why can't we always overcome fear by being bold? The mind sees fear as feelings, emotions and sensations. Such experiences do not confirm fear.
Experts tell us we cannot live without fear as we need...
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With
Pannavati Bikkhuni
Recorded : February 11, 2024
The Suttas, Sutras and Shastras tell us that we can dislodge and extinguish what the deluded mind has created. There is a common thread through them all… we should realize the emptiness of all...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : February 5, 2024
This week's topic is "Fear and Fearlessness". A week of exploring how our mind gets gripped, and how our practice frees us. We’ll explore causes and conditions of fear, and the ways fear can...
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With
Fleet Maull
Recorded : February 4, 2024
Roshi Fleet Maull, PhD will offer a brief talk and guide a session of his deeply embodied, neuroscience and trauma-informed approach to classic mindfulness & awareness meditation followed by Q&A. NSM facilitates the transition from...
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With
Nathan Glyde
Recorded : January 29, 2024
This week's topic is "Getting A Feel For Feeling". As we perceive, we add a feeling (vedanā) to our experience. When we are unaware of this process and react to the projected feeling, it...
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With
Lila Kimhi
Recorded : January 28, 2024
Intense times of war and crisis can and does often lead to intense Dukkha. But a crisis can also serve as a bedrock to spiritual breakthrough, deepening of liberating insights and openness of the heart....
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