With
Pascal Auclair
Recorded : January 22, 2023
In this session, we will explore the Buddha’s wise use of images in the Phena Sutta. We will see how these are representations of the deepest teachings of Insight Meditation and how they can...
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With
James Baraz
Recorded : January 15, 2023
The Buddha was known as The Happy One. Though Joy is one of the Seven Factors of Awakening, with so much emphasis on working with suffering, joy can sometimes seem frivolous or unspiritual. His...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : January 8, 2023
So many of us feel assailed by doubt, anxiety and insecurity. Unhelpful self-talk, along with the uncertainties of the world, heighten and reinforce thought tendencies. Dharma practice helps us recognize and uproot ingrained patterns,...
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With
Vimalasara Mason-John
Recorded : December 18, 2022
In times of struggle we can always call on the ancestors. Our affinity ones are just as important as our biological ones. The Buddhist path is full of affinity beings who inspire us. Join...
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With
Norman Blair
Recorded : December 11, 2022
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
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : December 4, 2022
Patience can be one of those qualities which we think of as being theoretically helpful but feel little motivation to actually cultivate and strengthen. So much emphasis in our busy world of achieving goals...
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With
Willa Blythe Baker
Recorded : November 27, 2022
How do we live in these times when human action has accelerated species extinction and ecosystem collapse? How do we understand what it means to be human now? On this day we will explore...
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With
Kim Allen
Recorded : November 20, 2022
Of the four traditional heart qualities in Buddhism, appreciative joy – muditā – gets less attention than lovingkindness (mettā), compassion (karuṇā), or equanimity (upekkhā). But the cultivation of sincere joy at the success of...
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With
Leela Sarti
Recorded : November 13, 2022
During this Sunday Sangha we will explore the peace of emptiness, the malleability of time and the loving care of oneself and all life.
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With
Jessica Morey
Recorded : November 6, 2022
As a new parent, working full time, facing the daily news of global conflict and environment crisis, liberation can sometimes seem far off to me. And yet, every day is a new opportunity to...
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With
Jaya Rudgard
Recorded : October 30, 2022
Certain moments, events and experiences open our awareness beyond the everyday to a sense of something more eternally present. Meditation points our attention to just this place, which the poet TS Eliot called ‘the...
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With
Nicola Redfern
Recorded : October 23, 2022
What does the Dharma have to say about how we relate: to ourselves, to each other and to the environment? How might we touch in to the energizing potential of waking up together? This...
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With
Vince Cullen
Recorded : October 16, 2022
During a recent retreat, the teachers’ instruction was to hold the question ‘What is this?’ in mind. While sitting on the cushion, the thought struck me that my life is futile! I am genetically...
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With
Kaira Jewel Lingo
Recorded : October 9, 2022
The Diamond Sutra, possibly the oldest text on deep ecology, teaches that there are four notions that separate us from life that we must throw away: the concepts of self, lifespan, humans, and living...
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With
Deborah Eden Tull
Recorded : October 2, 2022
One of the gifts of global uncertainty is that it requires us to recognize and release unconscious biases that have been passed down for generations. These include the perception that splits into opposites and...
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With
Christopher Titmuss
Recorded : September 25, 2022
Power matters when free from any corruption of mind, gross or subtle. We need to develop our power rather than feel powerless, indecisive or exploitive. Power emerges from unification of our whole being, focussing...
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With
Nirmala Werner
Recorded : September 18, 2022
This session is an embodied, compassionate exploration through our body-mind-heart into life. The door is open. What we long for is already there. This practise invites you to undo and deeply rest into the...
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With
Caverly Morgan
Recorded : September 11, 2022
As spiritual practitioners faced with the enormity of our world’s problems, we are often left wondering how our individual practice might make a tangible difference in our world. In this gathering, we will explore...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : September 4, 2022
After a summer of extreme heat, drought and fire, we may well enter the autumn wondering how to manage the grief at our fragile and collapsing ecology. Taking the title An Open Heart in Hell from...
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With
Dave Smith
Recorded : July 31, 2022
Dharma practice encourages us to transform our thoughts, words and actions. The primary mechanism for how this is accomplished is vague. What often goes unnoticed is that the use of the term mind has undergone a...
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With
Vimalasara Mason-John
Recorded : July 24, 2022
Pride celebrations are dedicated to celebrating the freedoms we have as LGBTQIA2S+ people and for campaigning for the human rights of Queer and Trans people around the world. 50 years ago the Gay Liberation...
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With
Lisa Ernst
Recorded : July 17, 2022
Not all stress is bad. In fact, anticipatory stress can be a life saver at times. Yet without mindful awareness, anticipatory stress may spiral into reactivity, paralyzing fear and suffering. How do we meet...
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With
Willa Blythe Baker
Recorded : July 10, 2022
Behavioral scientists have long known that human beings are wired for connection. But recent studies show that in the wake of the social isolation imposed by the Covid crisis, the world is experiencing a...
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With
Ronya Banks
Recorded : July 3, 2022
The Buddha often described our practice in terms of untangling the tangles we find ourselves caught in. Together, let us uncover the primary tangles we get tangled in and how we can use our...
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