Joy is Always Available
With Recorded : July 13, 2025
On autopilot, our mind often resists opening to joy with: “But right now in my life, there is …” So we explore what stands in our way of the unexpected ordinariness of joy. We’ll...
Dharma Library
Explore teachings from our previous Sunday Sangha sessions with our Dharma Library
The Joy of Letting Go: Simplicity and Renunciation
With Recorded : July 6, 2025
In our consumer culture, we fall for the illusion that more choice-in things, work, people, even spiritual paths-leads to more freedom, when often the opposite is true. As Jack Kornfield says, we live “in...
The Dharma of Displacement: Finding Sacred Ground Amidst Groundlessness
With Recorded : June 29, 2025
We live in a time when so many beings – human and more-than-human – are being physically displaced – by climate events, wars, aggressive deportations, and more. This mirrors an internal collective experience of...
What does Liberation Mean?
With Recorded : June 22, 2025
Buddha-Dharma teachings offer unparalleled insight into Truth, both ultimate and relative. Yet many practitioners fall into the belief that regular meditation alone will lead to breakthrough experiences and liberation-reinforced by the image of Buddha...
Embracing the Radical Act of Rest
With Recorded : June 15, 2025
Global challenges, economic uncertainty, and information overload can trigger fear and anxiety, leading us to overactivity and survival mode driven by guilt or inadequacy. The simple act of resting offers a powerful path to...
Reflections on Time and Timeless Awareness
With Recorded : June 8, 2025
What if the concept of time is part of our suffering? In this talk, we’ll look at the impact of our attachment to schedules and productivity and explore the ways that Buddhist teachings challenge...
Mindfulness and the Addiction Economy
With Recorded : June 1, 2025
Our devices have become weapons of mass distraction, we have lost the attention economy and now we are living in the addiction economy. Everyone is addicted, we all know it, few will admit it,...
Targeting Five Neural Networks for Embodiment, Healing and Awakening: An Integration of Network Neuroscience, Yogic Science, & Contemplative Wisdom
With Recorded : May 25, 2025
Roshi Fleet will describe five neural networks that play an essential role in our path of healing and liberation and how to strengthen these networks through a deeply embodied approach to mindfulness and awareness...
Vesak 2568: The Radical Message of Siddhattha Gotama
With Recorded : May 18, 2025
On the Theravāda holiday of Vesak, 2568 years after the Buddha’s death, we honor the ancient ascetic named Siddhattha Gotama, whose insights into the nature of suffering and freedom have inspired fierce disciplines, soaring...
Cultivating Resilience: Heart-Mind Awareness in Challenging Times
With Recorded : May 11, 2025
This session focuses on finding freedom from suffering by validating our emotions and deepening our connection to the present moment. We will explore how non-judgmental awareness can help us release limiting beliefs and cultivate...
The Concentration Algorithm
With Recorded : May 4, 2025
Discover a “concentration algorithm” that transforms your practice. Instead of fighting distractions, this approach teaches you to work with them skillfully. When your concentration wavers, notice what captured your attention, then make that distraction...
Embracing the Radical Act of Rest
With Recorded : April 27, 2025
In times of global challenges and uncertainty, we often respond with fear-driven action, guilt, or survival mode. Yet the simple act of resting offers a powerful path to liberation. By connecting with our bodies...
Protecting the Mind
With Recorded : April 20, 2025
The encounter with sensory experiences can lead to insight and calm, or reactivity and suffering. How do you guard your mind in the midst of a daily barrage of sensory input? How do you...
Wise Mindfulness will Protect You
With Recorded : April 13, 2025
Awareness isn’t something you make. It’s already here when you pause and notice. Mindfulness knows the good and helps it grow happily. It also knows the difficult and helps us hold it with care....
Finding Refuge Within Uncertainty
With Recorded : April 6, 2025
During these unprecedented times, it can be challenging to find a sense of refuge amidst the storms of uncertainty swirling around us. While the timeless teachings of the Buddhist Tradition don’t offer us lasting...
Integrity and Clarity: Foundations for Awakening
With Recorded : March 30, 2025
Everything in Buddhist practice builds on ethics and morality. With this basis, meditation and insight unfold naturally. This talk will explore the connection between living a life of integrity and developing spiritual awakening
Wake up to your Life: Cultivating Courage & Compassion in the Everyday
With Recorded : March 23, 2025
Awakening to Life means harmonizing our values and our actions. Many of us merely go through the motions, sleepwalking through the hours, without actually feeling alive. Cultivating courage and joy entails slowing down, paying...
Sangha: You Are Not Alone!
With Recorded : March 16, 2025
The Buddha’s insight that all things arise dependent on something else points to a universe in ongoing relational flow. When experienced directly, we know this flow to be love. Together we will open to...
Nature as Dharma, Nature as Refuge
With Recorded : March 9, 2025
In this session we will explore how the natural world is not only a place to develop resilience in stressful times but also a profound source of wisdom, joy and equanimity, which are essential...
Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness (NSM): An Integrated Approach to Embodiment, Personal Well-Being, Evolution, & Conscious Awakening
With Recorded : March 2, 2025
Roshi Fleet will describe and offer a stack of embodiment practices for building the neural architecture for optimal well-being, psychological and spiritual evolution, and conscious awakening, providing a pathway to a joyful life of...
The Dharma of Sex and Intimacy
With Recorded : February 23, 2025
Do your dharma insights seem to fall apart in the face of romantic connection? Are you wondering what mindfulness means when it comes to sex and intimacy? As a monastic, the Buddha had little...
The Individual-Relational Dharma Paradox and Why it Matters to Your Life
With Recorded : February 16, 2025
Biologically, psychologically, and in common sense there is no doubt that the human experience is both intrinsically individual and intrinsically relational. Our bodies are separate. You will never directly know my inner universe. Also,...
Return to Oneness – Resting in Luminous Being
With Recorded : February 9, 2025
Who is it that suffers? And why is asking that question valuable in our spiritual practice? In this Sunday session, we’ll explore these questions, and more. Following a guided meditation and teaching from Caverly’s...
Enhancing Non-Dualism Through The African Ancient Spirit of Ubuntu and Metta
With Recorded : February 2, 2025
We will explore inter-connectedness, inter-beingness and seeing ourselves in others, all beings and Nature to fully co-exist for the better good of the whole. Exploring Ubuntu practices and meta practices to connect and tune...