With
Lisa Ernst
Recorded : January 12, 2025
Much of the time, the path of meditation and awareness must be worked with intention, realigning ourselves with the teachings, with practice, lovingkindness and compassion. Other times, the path may become an effortless, natural...
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With
Vimalasara Mason-John
Recorded : January 5, 2025
Join us for our first Sunday Sangha session of the year on January 5th with Vimalasara Mason-John, inviting us to breathe into the new year with equanimity. It was through the potency of the...
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With
Scott Tusa
Recorded : December 15, 2024
This session will explore how our struggles can become stepping stones on our path to growth. By learning to meet difficulties with openness and compassion, we can transform obstacles into opportunities. The session will...
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With
Norman Blair
Recorded : December 8, 2024
Finding a comfortable body posture when meditating is a crucial element in our practice. We can use our bodies as a way of experiencing change and impermanence. In this session, we will be looking...
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With
Jill Satterfield
Recorded : December 1, 2024
Softness and spaciousness can be cultivated and called upon when needed.The sensations of softness are reflective of ease and equanimity – the feeling of spaciousness, reflective of non-clinging. Both create a natural letting go,...
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With
Antonia Sumbundu
Recorded : November 24, 2024
In this practice related talk, we will explore the profound concept of “Feeling Tone or Vedena” and how it serves as a gateway to deeper awareness, compassion, and wisdom in our lives. Feeling Tone,...
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With
Chris Willard
Recorded : November 17, 2024
Generosity, be it material or spiritual is universal across cultures and spiritual practices. In today’s talk we explore Buddhist and other teachings, as well as deeper neuroscience behind why generosity makes us happier and...
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With
Leela Sarti
Recorded : November 10, 2024
How can we live from the ground of presence, being ourselves in peace with others, while doing what needs to be done? This Sunday we’ll explore what is essential for living in the midst...
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With
Mimi Kuo-Deemer
Recorded : November 3, 2024
Our heart’s experiences do not only affect our mental and emotional states. They also impact bodily experience, creating tension, tightness, spaciousness or ease. Likewise, our bodily experiences do not only generate physical sensations, but...
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With
Stephen Fulder
Recorded : October 27, 2024
When external circumstances are difficult and challenging we tend to get swept away by them. But instead, they can be a wake-up call. We turn to the dharma to help us meet the challenges...
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With
Leslie Booker
Recorded : October 20, 2024
The precepts are often shared on the first night of retreat to kind of go into a social contract of how we’re going to care for one another on retreat, while holding the nobility...
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With
Vince Cullen
Recorded : October 13, 2024
The extremes of addiction to sense pleasure and addiction to self-mortification are not the path to happiness. The spectrum of human sensuality spans from pleasure to pain, pleasant to unpleasant, from hedonic excesses to...
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With
Leigh Brasington
Recorded : October 6, 2024
Anicca, usually translated as “Impermanence” or “Inconstancy,” is one of the three characteristics of all worldly experience. It’s the one of those characteristics we can usually get some understanding of right away. But the...
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With
David Cabrera
Recorded : September 29, 2024
From pure emptiness the wondrous appears… In the session we will explore different somatic approaches to cultivate a sense of calm and ease. An invitation into insight meditation and letting go into a natural...
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With
Nolitha Tsengiwe
Recorded : September 22, 2024
Reflection on suffering and the ending of suffering, with focus on second Noble Truth.
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With
Tuere Sala
Recorded : September 15, 2024
Emptiness can be a loaded word for lay practitioners. It can bring up a sense of isolation and annihilation. The dharma of emptiness, however, is a fundamental part of practice. Even in the most...
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With
Drs Larry Ward and Peggy Rowe Ward
Recorded : September 8, 2024
The harvest is a beautiful and important part of life each year. A time when our good work bears fruit and people are fed. A time of thanksgiving and prayers. How do we participate...
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With
Willa Blythe Baker
Recorded : September 1, 2024
We live in challenging times. Biologists speak of micro-systems where species sequester during times of crisis. They are called refugia. In times of uncertainty and fear, we too need refugia, places of spiritual safety...
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With
Deborah Eden Tull
Recorded : July 28, 2024
Join us for an experiential practice and embodied inquiry into speaking from the heart and engaging in courageous conversations. Our challenges are gateways to relational presence. By bringing compassionate awareness to habits of mind...
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With
Kim Allen
Recorded : July 21, 2024
Simplicity underlies Dharma practice. It’s common that when people begin to meditate, even if they have a full life with a job and family, they begin to realize that simplicity is a deep value....
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With
Shaila Catherine
Recorded : July 14, 2024
In this Sunday Sangha session, we will address the common tendencies to judge and compare. Wise discernment is useful, but excessive comparing and compulsive judging can harm relationships, obscure the clarity of perception, and...
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With
Pamela Weiss
Recorded : July 7, 2024
This talk will explore the Three Refuges — Buddha, Dharma and Sangha — as sources of true refuge in difficult times. The teaching of the Refuges is found within all schools of Buddhism and...
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With
Lisa Ernst
Recorded : June 30, 2024
Karma is action in Buddhism, driven by intention. With practice we cultivate the ability to choose our response and our actions, internally and externally. We might think if our intentions are good our actions...
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With
Daigan Gaither
Recorded : June 23, 2024
Using the hagiography of the Bodhisattvas of Compassion, Wisdom, and Activity, let’s explore how to bring those ideals into our everyday life off the cushion. What can these perfections of compassion, wisdom and activity...
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