With
Shaila Catherine
Recorded : April 24, 2022
Shaila will be sharing teachings from her new book, Beyond Distraction. This talk will introduce five pragmatic strategies to help you overcome distraction in meditation and develop clarity in relationships, work, and daily life. The...
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With
Leigh Brasington
Recorded : April 17, 2022
2 Kings. Palace Intrigue. A Murder. 500 Elephants. A nighttime visit to see the Buddha. And that’s just the backstory to one of the Buddha’s deepest teachings: his curriculum for spiritual advancement. Join us...
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With
Akincano Weber
Recorded : April 10, 2022
During this session we discuss the teaching on ‘wisely directing one’s attention to the roots’ (yoniso manasikāra). It is a remarkably pragmatic approach to contemplative practice and one of Early Buddhism’s unique contributions to...
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With
Ralph Steele
Recorded : April 3, 2022
The practice of Mindfulness from breath to breath is essential. If you have knowledge of the Four Noble Truths then you have the foundation; only practice is needed to gain insight into the Dharma. ...
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With
Daigan Gaither
Recorded : March 27, 2022
The 5 precepts often given to lay practitioners are (with positive instructions in parenthesis): I vow not to kill (Love and support all beings)I vow not to steal (generosity)I vow not to misuse sexuality...
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With
Leslie Booker
Recorded : March 20, 2022
In a world riddled with addiction, violence and loneliness, it can feel challenging to figure out how to reclaim our humanity. We can begin by remembering that we belong to each other. On this...
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With
Diana Winston
Recorded : March 13, 2022
Our practice cultivates qualities of boundless love, whether through loving kindness practice, or opening to the love inherent in deep states of awareness. But can we really love everyone boundlessly? What about political leaders...
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With
Oren Jay Sofer
Recorded : March 6, 2022
Everything we do in life depends on energy, but the modern world has a destructive and exploitative relationship with energy. What is wise, balanced energy in spiritual practice? How can we establish this in...
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With
Jill Satterfield
Recorded : February 27, 2022
Sometimes a simple shift of our perception can change our sense of everything and allow for a fresh experience of the personal and transpersonal simultaneously. There is so much more ease in a relaxed, open...
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With
Stephen Fulder
Recorded : February 20, 2022
Spiritual practice is often a journey to discover spaciousness, openness and absorption into everything else. From form to formless. From more spaciousness in the mind to subtle and beautiful limitless states that are clearly...
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With
Lisa Ernst
Recorded : February 13, 2022
Right now, holding certainty about many aspects of life is impossible. Together we explore how our practice can support us when not knowing feels groundless and how we can find freedom even when the...
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With
Mark Coleman
Recorded : February 6, 2022
For many people, the natural world is a perennial place of refuge, resource and replenishment. It can be a profound support for bringing awareness into the outdoors. Yet, nature is under increasingly under siege....
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With
Christopher Titmuss
Recorded : January 30, 2022
Life seems an inevitable movement in the field of time until death interrupts. Amidst the myriad number of events, welcome and unwelcome, we hastily conclude the way we perceive reveals the way things are.
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With
Caverly Morgan
Recorded : January 23, 2022
In times like these with so much uncertainty, fear and suffering, how can we keep our center in a world that sometimes seems to be spinning out of control?
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With
James Baraz
Recorded : January 16, 2022
In times like these with so much uncertainty, fear and suffering, how can we keep our center in a world that sometimes seems to be spinning out of control?
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With
Roshi Joan Halifax
Recorded : January 9, 2022
His Holiness the Dalai Lama has shared that compassion is not a luxury but a necessity for human beings to survive. There is no more important time to understand and strengthen compassion than right now....
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With
Christopher Titmuss
Recorded : December 19, 2021
We know the cost to the reality of life through deprivation of love.
Science has eliminated love from its analysis of reality.
We cannot know ultimate reality though highlighting the mind and dismissing the heart or...
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With
David Treleaven
Recorded : December 12, 2021
In this session, we'll explore how to practice mindfulness and meditation in a trauma-sensitive way. We'll learn experiential mindfulness practices designed to support empowerment, as well as how to recognize trauma and work with...
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With
Caverly Morgan
Recorded : December 5, 2021
We are deeply conditioned to blame; it’s a survival strategy. Though it can feel necessary, maybe even fruitful to part of us, blaming arises out of suffering, and leads to more suffering. The process...
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With
Willa Blythe Baker
Recorded : November 28, 2021
While we might think of the body as flesh and blood, there is so much more to this mortal coil. The body in fact may be our deepest teacher. In this session, we explore...
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With
Lisa Ernst
Recorded : November 21, 2021
There’s a misconception that thoughts are a hindrance to deep meditation and tranquility. Especially during this ongoing challenging time, certain thoughts may be persistent and difficult to release. Yet, thoughts themselves are not the...
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With
Daigan Gaither
Recorded : November 14, 2021
Spiritual bypassing is a superficial way of glossing over problems in a way that might make us feel better in the short term, but ultimately solves nothing and just leaves the problem to linger...
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With
Thanissara
Recorded : November 7, 2021
However challenging, we are in these times because we need to be here. We are here to release from what no longer serves and to infuse a new story with clear, wise, conscious intention;...
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With
Kaira Jewel Lingo
Recorded : October 31, 2021
When we are faced with suffering and uncertainty or life becomes overwhelming we can tense up, resist or try to control. But when we open and let go in the midst of change and...
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