Dharma Library
Enjoy video recordings of our previous live Sunday Sangha and Daily Meditation sessions, offered on dana basis.
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...
Showing up Fully in the Full Catastrophe
With Recorded : November 6, 2022
As a new parent, working full time, facing the daily news of global conflict and environment crisis, liberation can sometimes seem far off to me. And yet, every day is a new opportunity to...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Wiebke Pausch – Week of October 31, 2022
With Recorded : October 31, 2022
This week's topic is "Awaken Self-Compassion". For many of us it is easier to be friendly and compassionate with others than with ourselves. Old conditioning, limiting beliefs of not being worthy of love and...
Time and Timelessness: Finding Refuge, Finding Inspiration
With Recorded : October 30, 2022
Certain moments, events and experiences open our awareness beyond the everyday to a sense of something more eternally present. Meditation points our attention to just this place, which the poet TS Eliot called ‘the...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nathan Glyde – Week of October 24, 2022
With Recorded : October 24, 2022
This week's topic is Subtilising Experience. The Dharma is a path to awakening. Our experience becomes more liberated as we awaken. Similarly, we can notice that our life progresses from the gross to the...
Relational Dharma
With Recorded : October 23, 2022
What does the Dharma have to say about how we relate: to ourselves, to each other and to the environment? How might we touch in to the energizing potential of waking up together? This...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ulla Koenig – Week of Oct 17, 2022
With Recorded : October 17, 2022
This week's topic is "A Peaceful Mind". Thoughts are our continuous companions. While some are harmless, others have a deep impact on us: not only do they shape perceptions, but they also influence our...
Sitting with Pointlessness – Living with Potentiality
With Recorded : October 16, 2022
During a recent retreat, the teachers’ instruction was to hold the question ‘What is this?’ in mind. While sitting on the cushion, the thought struck me that my life is futile! I am genetically...
Reverence is the Nature of My Love: A Buddhist Response to the Climate Emergency
With Recorded : October 9, 2022
The Diamond Sutra, possibly the oldest text on deep ecology, teaches that there are four notions that separate us from life that we must throw away: the concepts of self, lifespan, humans, and living...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Jaya Rudgard – Week of October 3, 2022
With Recorded : October 3, 2022
This week's theme is "The Practice of Courage in Everyday Life"
Courage is an essential quality in life and on the spiritual path and it comes in many guises. Anything that challenges our unhelpful habits requires...
Luminous Darkness: A Path for Seeing Clearly from the Heart
With Recorded : October 2, 2022
One of the gifts of global uncertainty is that it requires us to recognize and release unconscious biases that have been passed down for generations. These include the perception that splits into opposites and...
Developing the Power of Heart and Mind
With Recorded : September 25, 2022
Power matters when free from any corruption of mind, gross or subtle. We need to develop our power rather than feel powerless, indecisive or exploitive. Power emerges from unification of our whole being, focussing...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nathan Glyde – Week of September 19, 2022
With Recorded : September 19, 2022
This week's topic is "Compose Yourself". Dharma teachings appear to pull 'us' in two directions: on the one hand we pacify, renouncing and let go of everything, even of ourselves; on the other we...
Resting in Receptivity – Opening Up to What Liberates
With Recorded : September 18, 2022
This session is an embodied, compassionate exploration through our body-mind-heart into life. The door is open. What we long for is already there. This practise invites you to undo and deeply rest into the...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ulla Koenig – Week of Sept 12, 2022
With Recorded : September 12, 2022
This week's topic is (Be)Come As You Are. Our driven-ness, our ruminating thoughts, and our feelings of shame, guilt, and anxiety never allow us to simply 'be'. They evolve around a sense of identity...
The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together
With Recorded : September 11, 2022
As spiritual practitioners faced with the enormity of our world’s problems, we are often left wondering how our individual practice might make a tangible difference in our world. In this gathering, we will explore...