With
Christopher Titmuss
Recorded : February 7, 2021
We find ourselves concerned with the state of the world yet we do not live in one world. Our inner world reveals significant differences from the outer world. The outer world offers a variety...
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With
Kittisaro
Recorded : January 31, 2021
On a Full Moon in the early years after the Buddha’s awakening, 1250 enlightened disciples spontaneously gathered to be in the presence of the Blessed One. His succinct teachings on that occasion, known as...
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With
Dave Smith
Recorded : January 24, 2021
Coming to terms with the teaching and implications of the first noble truth can be challenging, confusing and ongoing. When we are unable to do the hard work of completing the task of the...
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With
James Baraz
Recorded : January 17, 2021
These pandemic times with isolation, suffering, social and political divisiveness and an uncertain future our lives are filled with even more challenges than usual. At the same time many hearts are opening with increased...
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With
Caverly Morgan
Recorded : January 10, 2021
As we move into this new year, most of us are ready to leave 2020 behind. So much hardship, for so many, has arisen in the last year. Many of us felt more isolated,...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : January 3, 2021
New year’s resolutions are often unrealistically ambitious and doomed to failure. In this first Sangha Live class of the year, our founding teacher Martin Aylward explores the art of wise commitment; how to refine...
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With
Oren Jay Sofer
Recorded : December 13, 2020
In this session author and communication trainer Oren Jay Sofer offered guidance and reflections on how to approach difficult situations like stress from the pandemic and conflict with family with more skill, clarity and...
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With
Leela Sarti
Recorded : December 6, 2020
To care for our lives, the lives of all beings and the earth is all at the heart of what it means to be a human being. Yet, speculating about the future, and tensing...
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With
Deborah Eden Tull
Recorded : November 29, 2020
As we enter the darker months of the year, consider the profound restoration and healing that darkness offers us— both physically and symbolically. Darkness is often considered the absence of light, but it is...
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With
Thanissara
Recorded : November 22, 2020
As engaged dharma increasingly shifts focus from palliative ministry to systemic change within our times of poly crises, what is Buddhist “Right Action?” This session explores Spiritual Warriorship as Dharma practice from within a...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : November 15, 2020
Is it possible to live and love freely amidst the greed, aggression and dysfunction of the world?Amidst so much suffering, can you nourish joy, lightness and laughter?When it feels as if you’re drowning, might...
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With
Jill Satterfield
Recorded : November 8, 2020
Becoming quiet allows for deeper listening – to the whispers of the body, heart and mind as parts of a whole and as harmonic convergence. How we tune our instruments depends on what we...
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With
Daigan Gaither
Recorded : November 1, 2020
If we start with the understanding that everyone is living by vow, how can we examine what vows we are following and change to follow the ones that lead to liberation?
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With
Eugene Cash
Recorded : October 25, 2020
This talk explores classic Buddhist teachings about anatta: self and not-self as well highlighting how other traditions and modalities recognized self and what it means to be free from self. We investigate self and...
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With
Caverly Morgan
Recorded : October 18, 2020
Many are referring to this time as apocalyptic. Fair enough. It can seem as though everywhere we turn a dismantling of some sort is in the works. While we might intellectually feel able to...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : October 11, 2020
Dharma practice is sometimes seen too reductively through a uniquely meditative lens. This class looks not only at what you practice (methodology) but also at why you practice (ideology) and at your understanding of...
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With
Oren Jay Sofer
Recorded : October 4, 2020
Amidst so many changes and so much loss this year, many of us are grieving. We may be grieving the loss of a loved one, of our own health, of a job, or even...
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With
Nina La Rosa
Recorded : September 27, 2020
We’re in uncharted territory. Each day brings new shocks and challenges. How is it possible to respond with flexibility, kindness, and wisdom? Together we will get through this. Let’s practice a meditation strategy to...
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With
Vimalasara Mason-John
Recorded : September 20, 2020
This session is invitation for white practitioners and others to join Vimalasara in a discussion on the theme of liberation, the central tenet of Buddhist teachings. No one is liberated until we are all...
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With
Leela Sarti
Recorded : September 13, 2020
In our troubled world dharma practitioners sometimes become earnest. But beings learn and develop through play, and to play we have to be fluid in mind, heart and body. Play fertilizes the human spirit...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : September 6, 2020
We are more physically isolated during these days of Covid. Less physical contact, less access even to each others smiles beneath the masks we wear to care for each others’ health. Contact and intimacy...
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With
Lama Rod Owens
Recorded : August 30, 2020
The world is unsteady and chaotic. We find ourselves struggling in a pandemic that has completely disrupted our lives. Many of us are being confronted with the reality of death in a way we...
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With
Lama Rod Owens
Recorded : July 26, 2020
Maya Angelou once wrote: “The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” James Baldwin reflected: “Perhaps home is not...
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With
Ronya Banks
Recorded : July 19, 2020
“Enter into the stillness inside your busy life. Become familiar with her ways. Grow to love her, feel with all your heart and you will come to hear her silent music and become...
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