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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With
Toby Sola
Recorded : June 16, 2024
Shodo Harada Roshi is known as a “teacher of teachers”, with masters from various lineages coming to sit with him in Japan. If you went to Harada’s monastery, the main meditation technique you’d learn...
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With
Yahel Avigur
Recorded : June 9, 2024
Samadhi is the art of nourishing, gathering, and collecting the heart. Highly regarded by the Buddha, this practice relies on honesty and wisdom, reliably leading to joy and happiness, and inclines the heart towards...
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With
JD Doyle
Recorded : June 2, 2024
Allowing the beautiful to guide us in our practice opens up possibilities beyond our conditioned habits. Awakening to beauty involves being with the messiness and the challenges of our lives. Beauty does not belong...
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With
Juha Penttilä
Recorded : May 26, 2024
In this session we’ll explore opening to the practices of vastness of awareness. Through listening and sensing we will open up to a sense of spaciousness and explore letting go within it.
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With
Bart van Melik
Recorded : May 19, 2024
The Buddha discovered that craving is the cause by which stress comes into play. Letting go of this constant pursuing of our desires is possible. Befriending this human and natural craving needs the power...
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With
Heidi Bourne
Recorded : May 12, 2024
Life is never only good or only bad, pleasant or unpleasant, comfortable or uncomfortable, just or unjust. Cultivating a wide spacious perspective within the reality of uncertainty gives rise to a bigger capacity to meet...
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With
Maura Sills
Recorded : May 5, 2024
In the territory of inherent health we are all equal. To really know this with the heartmind impacts our practice at all levels. One of the more important shifts in our practice is recognising...
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With
Frank Ostaseski
Recorded : April 28, 2024
Love is the essential quality needed for the journey through life. The heart’s desire for deep connection fuels the journey, inspires and deepens our practice. This is why at some point we stop practicing to...
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