Dharma Library
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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Jaya Rudgard – Week of Nov 22, 2021
With Recorded : November 22, 2021
This week's theme is Similes and Images from the Ancient Texts .Each morning this week we'll dive into one of the images from the natural world and daily life that the Buddha used to...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Leela Sarti – Week of Nov 8, 2021
With Recorded : November 8, 2021
This week's theme is "Deepening Heart Presence: Life, Dukkha, and Beyond". We need heart presence in order to digest life experience. It takes a lot of heart to live with integrity, sensitivity and openness....
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nirmala Werner – Week of Nov 1, 2021
With Recorded : November 1, 2021
This week's theme is "Embodied Metta - The Body as a Pathway to Freedom".
The Buddha's teachings invite us to be with things as they are. This week, we'll learn embodiment practices to help us...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nathan Glyde – Week of Oct 25, 2021
With Recorded : October 25, 2021
This week's theme is Making Sense of Self.
Although the Buddha encourages us to not indulgently ponder whether the self is real or not, he did offer us a way to explore how the sense...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of October 18, 2021
With Recorded : October 18, 2021
This week's theme is: The Abundant Middle-Way.
The Buddha in his last steps of awakening turned away from austerities and the practiced hardships he had endured. He did not turn back to the indulgences of...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of Oct 11, 2021
With Recorded : October 11, 2021
We’re fortunate that Martin Aylward has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK this week. To find out more about Martin, and view his other recordings on the...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ulla Koenig – Week of October 4, 2021
With Recorded : October 4, 2021
This week's theme is: Meeting the Bodily Companion
Mindfulness of the body is a key aspect of practice. When we're in contact with our bodies, we root ourselves in the present moment and find refuge...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nathan Glyde – Week of Sept 27, 2021
With Recorded : September 27, 2021
This week's topic is "The Boundless Heart".
"As a mother would risk her life
to protect her child, her only child,
even so should one cultivate a limitless heart
with regard to all beings."
Karaniya Metta Sutta: translation Thānisarro...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of Sept 20, 2021
With Recorded : September 20, 2021
We’re fortunate that Martin Aylward has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK this week. To find out more about Martin, and view his other recordings on the...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of Sept 13, 2021
With Recorded : September 13, 2021
We’re fortunate that Martin Aylward has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK this week. To find out more about Martin, and view his other recordings on the...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of Sept 6, 2021
With Recorded : September 6, 2021
We’re fortunate that Martin Aylward has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK this week. To find out more about Martin, and view his other recordings on the...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ulla Koenig – Week of July 19, 2021
With Recorded : July 19, 2021
This week's theme is: Identifying the Many Masks of the Inner Critic
Often we think of the inner critic as the constant nagging inner discourse which dismisses our good qualities, questions our lovability, and our...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of July 12, 2021
With Recorded : July 12, 2021
This week's theme is: Equally Close to All Things: Explorations in Equanimity.
Life includes both pleasant and unpleasant experiences, ups and down, joys and sorrows. Equanimity invites us to meet all of these with tenderness...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of July 5, 2021
With Recorded : July 5, 2021
This week's theme is: The Power of Compassion.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. – Dalai Lama
During this week we will explore how compassion informs and supports meditation practice...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nathan Glyde – Week of June 28, 2021
With Recorded : June 28, 2021
This week's theme is: The Unbound Heart
Teachings of liberation expand our range of possibilities. They encourage us to discover a broader capacity of what we can contact, sense, and do. The teachings of the...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of June 21, 2021
With Recorded : June 21, 2021
We’re fortunate that Martin Aylward has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK this week. To find out more about Martin, and view his other recordings on the...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nathan Glyde – Week of June 14, 2021
With Recorded : June 14, 2021
This week's theme is: Contentment Blockers
The Buddha named five key ways access to contentment is blocked, and gave clear and profound teachings that break through to the peace, joy, and freedom they obscure.
Our hearts...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ulla Koenig – Week of June 7, 2021
With Recorded : June 7, 2021
This week's theme is: Mudita - Celebrating Aliveness. Our hearts possess infinite capacities: they can express friendship in the most surprising circumstances and turn with tenderness and care to those who suffer. But aside...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Jaya Rudgard – Week of May 31, 2021
With Recorded : May 31, 2021
This week's topic is "Rediscovering Simplicity: Renunciation and the Art of Letting Go". Renunciation is one of the ten paramis or 'spiritual perfections' considered most conducive to happiness and wellbeing, and yet we tend...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of May 24, 2021
With Recorded : May 24, 2021
We’re fortunate that Martin Aylward has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK this week. To find out more about Martin, and view his other recordings on the...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of May 17, 2021
With Recorded : May 17, 2021
We’re fortunate that Martin Aylward has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK this week. To find out more about Martin, and view his other recordings on the...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nathan Glyde – Week of May 10, 2021
With Recorded : May 10, 2021
This week's theme is: Invitation to Awaken.
The Buddha adopted a medical model to express the seminal and accessible four noble truths. We can see a diagnosis, a cause and symptoms, a cure, and a...