The Beauty of Being
With Recorded : May 27, 2018
Leela says: “Over the years my interest in awakening has be reformulated as how to be a real human being. In this session I invite you to explore, with me, the possibility of being...
Dharma Library
Explore teachings from our previous Sunday Sangha sessions with our Dharma Library
Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out
With Recorded : May 20, 2018
Racism remains one of the most rooted and painful impasses of our time. Why is this so? And what does this have to do with you? In her talk, drawing from her recent publication,...
An Experience is Not The Point
With Recorded : May 13, 2018
A deep application of attention includes the sustained application to any important experience. This includes a vast range of happy or painful, spiritual or conventional experiences. There is the view of the experience and...
Wise Acceptance
With Recorded : May 6, 2018
What is the importance of acceptance and allowing in developing a wise relationship to our practice and our lives? We often try to find a one size fits all approach but like all dynamic...
Blunt Suffering
With Recorded : April 29, 2018
Let’s not flinch when we look at the lived experiences of illness, confusion, and relational pain. Let’s allow the texture of hurt to be known. Awareness remains brilliant, for sure. Any of us can...
The practice of pleasure and delight (or the spiritual art of having fun).
With Recorded : April 22, 2018
Dharma teachings importantly emphasise suffering, compassion, renunciation, desire, non-reactivity, peacefulness. All these are potent themes, yet ones which can make our practice feel overly heavy, unnecessarily serious, maybe even uptight! Dharma practice equally points...
The spectrum of awareness practices
With Recorded : April 15, 2018
This session explores different ways in which attention works and associated meditation practices: from focused awareness, to flexible awareness, to natural awareness. We do a number of fun experiential practices in hopes of understanding...
When Less is More
With Recorded : April 8, 2018
Gautam Buddha said he gained nothing from complete awakening. What are our everyday experiences of the magic of less? Trying less does not mean less energy, connection or insight. How little effort is needed...
The Unguarded Heart: Meeting Anger and Resentment with Love and Forgiveness
With Recorded : April 1, 2018
In this talk, we explore anger, resentment, jealousy, and other difficult emotions – learning how to see clearly and meet anger with true love and acceptance. We explore our misunderstandings about anger and learn...
How to structure your practice in life
With Recorded : March 25, 2018
Shinzen guides you through his “See, Hear, Feel” focus technique. This technique is designed to be applicable in any life situation — driving a car, having a conversation, working out, puttering around the house…....
Don’t be realistic. Be real
With Recorded : March 18, 2018
Through the cultures within family, education and work, we are constantly orientated towards ‘realistic’ expectations and visions for our lives. Dharma practice asks us to abandon the realistic in favour of the real; listening...
On Teachings and Teachers
With Recorded : March 17, 2018
People often ask about the importance (or not) of working closely with a teacher. One can benefit greatly from general meditation instruction, but personalised guidance from someone who knows you and your practice well...
The noble jewel of Right Effort
With Recorded : March 11, 2018
Right Effort is a jewel within a jewel. We investigate the Four Right Exertions that fuel Right Effort and the Hindrances that attempt to derail our intention. You will gain insight into why the...
This Dharma I Have Reached
With Recorded : March 4, 2018
Without a doubt, Buddhism is recognized as one of the world’s great religions. For almost three millennia these ancient teachings have spread rapidly around the globe influencing humanity in a variety of ways. Needless...
Why we practice: reclaiming authority, ending dissatisfaction, and engaging wholeheartedly
With Recorded : February 25, 2018
So many people are asking the potent question, How can I make an impact in a time of such adversity? How can I contribute to positive change in our world? How can I stay...
The freeing of human consciousness: from seeing the world ‘out there’, separate and alien, to directly knowing, feeling, and living the intimacy of all things
With Recorded : February 18, 2018
The Shurangama Sutra, which points out the foundations of Zen practice, discusses the essential nature of mind as the “primal essence of consciousness that brings forth all conditions.” Implied is the heart-mind (citta) both...
Meditating and speaking: simultaneously practicing Sila, Samadhi and Panna
With Recorded : February 11, 2018
The communicative loop of listening and speaking forms a powerful karmic workshop. Language taps into our karmic archive, sankhara. It reaches other people and, if they are listening, there is mind-to-mind contact. Relational contact...
Insight and practices for difficult times
With Recorded : February 4, 2018
We are in a race between fear and consciousness. Never before have forces of greed hatred and ignorance enjoyed such a platform of populist divisiveness that instills fear and separation throughout society, endangering our...
Understanding and developing Citta (heart-mind)
With Recorded : January 28, 2018
All schools of Buddhism acknowledge that the development of Citta is an essential aspect of the awakening process. Within classical Mindfulness teachings, it encompasses the entirely of the third foundation of practice. At its...
How awareness frees: Vitaka Vicara Viveka
With Recorded : January 21, 2018
Worldwide Insight Founding teacher Martin Aylward returns to lead his first class of the year. Martin looks at how different elements of attention can meet, explore and hold experience, allowing for insight, spaciousness and...
Beautiful and beloved communities in the Dharma – the practice of inclusive and diverse sanghas.
With Recorded : January 14, 2018
Worldwide Insight talk from Larry Yang: “Beautiful and Beloved Communities in the Dharma: The Practice of Inclusive and Diverse Sanghas”. Guided meditation, Dharma talk and Q&A.
Awakening to the New Year: creating conscious intentions
With Recorded : January 7, 2018
When we move on behalf of the recognition of our true nature, a conscious intention becomes a way to align all aspects of our lives with our deepest understanding and recognition of truth. A...
Love for the world
With Recorded : December 17, 2017
In our last class of 2017, our guiding teacher Martin offers reflections on life, love and liberation, looking particularly at some of the challenging events and elements of worldly life, and pointing towards a...
Angulimala: an ethical transformation
With Recorded : December 10, 2017
Shaila tells the life story of Angulimala and his transformation from notorious robber and murderer to a peaceful, compassionate, truthful, and awakened monk. It is an inspiring example of the power of restraint, and...