Dharma Library
Enjoy video recordings of our previous live Sunday Sangha and Daily Meditation sessions, offered on dana basis.
The ‘Self’ is Insubstantial
With Recorded : February 5, 2023
Humans live in the spell of the self, as if it had substantial existence.
Dharma offers a reflection/meditation/inquiry into this phenomenon.
One who asks 'Who Wakes Up?' lives in the spell.
Teaching will offer ways to a...
How We Grow Through What We Go Through
With Recorded : January 29, 2023
How can we, and our communities, not just survive but thrive during challenging, post-traumatic times? Spirituality, positive psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, mindfulness and more have boosted human resilience in the face of adversity for generations....
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nirmala Werner – Week of Jan 23 – 27, 2023
With Recorded : January 23, 2023
This week's theme is "5 Doorways to Love". What hinders our love? Where are we blocked? Desire, anger, dullness, restlessness and doubt are the so-called 5 hindrances: qualities in the mind which obstruct mindfulness...
This Is What We Are: Foam, Bubbles, Mirage, Banana Tree Trunks and Magical Shows
With 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...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ulla Koenig – Week of Jan 16, 2023
With Recorded : January 16, 2023
This week's theme is "Change, Loss and Dying: Meeting the Common Denominator". When we come in touch with the fragility of our existence, it is only natural that fear or sadness might well up....
Gladness of the Wholesome: The Buddha’s Teaching on Awakening Joy
With 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...
Saddha: Unshakeable Confidence
With 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,...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of January 02, 2023
With Recorded : January 2, 2023
This week's topic is "Nourishing Intention". Intention plays a key role in meditation practice, as well as in many areas of our lives. During this week of practice we will explore what supports the...
Sitting With Our Ancestors
With 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...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of December 12, 2022
With Recorded : December 12, 2022
This week's topic is "Interwoven and Free"
The Buddha invited us to investigate our experience moment by moment. One of the key things we uncover as we do this is that separation is an illusion,...
Settling Into Your Body In Meditation
With 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...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nirmala Werner – Week of Dec 5 – 9, 2022
With Recorded : December 5, 2022
This week's theme is "Embodied Meditation Practise & the Transformative Power of the 5 Precepts".
Many people find themselves from time to time in a spiritual vacuum, trying to fill this emptiness with indulgence through...
Patience: In Praise of an Undervalued Helper
With 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...
Rewilding: Dharma as a Journey Home to Wildness, Wonder and Ancestral Ground
With 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...
Muditā: Appreciative Joy
With 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...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ulla Koenig – Week of Nov 15, 2022
With Recorded : November 14, 2022
This week's topic is Kindle the Flame. Metta practice, which nourishes the heart’s capacity for friendliness, brings many benefits. It softens our relationship to ourselves, nourishes us with a sense of connection, puts challenges...
Death is Before Me Today
With 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.
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Jaya Rudgard – Week of November 7, 2022
With Recorded : November 7, 2022
This week's theme is A Gentle and Playful Heart". A week of morning meditations orienting to the qualities of playfulness and gentleness. When we neither meet ourselves or each other with harshness nor take ourselves...