With
Milla Gregor
Recorded : April 22, 2024
This week's theme is "Breath, Body, Connection and Reflection". Breath, body and connection are areas of practice that come up again and again in Buddhist teaching. We’ll explore them in different combinations, and reflect...
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Zohar Lavie
Recorded : January 22, 2024
This week's topic is "Wholehearted Presence". Meeting experience as it unfolds with presence and interest, we uncover the wellbeing and freedom available to us on the Dharma path. Through this week's exploration we will...
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : January 15, 2024
This week's theme is "Tending to Fire – An Exploration of the Third Noble Truth". The third of the four noble truths, which the Buddha offered as a framework, invites us to reflect on...
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With
James Rafael
Recorded : January 8, 2024
This week's topic is "New Year Habits and Hindrances". In this week's sessions we’ll explore how engaging with the Buddha’s teachings on the ‘5 Hindrances’ can help establish or deepen the habit of a...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : December 18, 2023
This week's topic is "In the Midst of it All". Sanity, serenity and sangha in the silly season.
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With
Ayala Gill
Recorded : December 11, 2023
This week's topic is "Embracing challenging emotions". There are no negative emotions, only ones that we find challenging to embrace, like anxiety, anger, grief and fear. When we relate to them in distorted ways,...
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With
Wiebke Pausch
Recorded : December 4, 2023
This week's topic is "Exploring the Art of Radical Rest". Conditioned and surrounded by a restless culture, we are constantly driven towards self-optimisation and self-improvement. Our practice is often affected by the striving and...
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With
Nirmala Werner
Recorded : November 27, 2023
This week's topic is "Longing for Belonging; Becoming Intimate with Expansion and Contraction". Although people are more connected than ever through technology, there seems to be a global trance of "not belonging". In this...
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With
Wiebke Pausch
Recorded : November 20, 2023
This week's topic is "May I be kind to myself". May I be kind to myself - coming home to kindness and giving ourselves the love and care we need and deserve. What helps us to...
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With
Sophie Boyer
Recorded : November 13, 2023
This week's topic is "Entering Fall". The autumn season can be a challenging (transitional) time of the year with darkness, rain, wind, mist, and a sense that the cycle of life is coming slowly...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : November 6, 2023
This week's topic is "Everything to Lose, Nothing to Fear"
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With
Miles Kessler
Recorded : October 30, 2023
This week's topic is "Meditation In A Time Of Crisis". As the world spirals into yet another all too frequent crisis, we are once again confronted with our basic human fragility. At times like...
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