With
Jaya Rudgard
Recorded : November 22, 2021
This week's theme is "Similes and Images from the Ancient Texts".
Each morning this week we'll dive into one of the images from the natural world and daily life that the Buddha used to explain...
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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
Martin Aylward
Recorded : November 15, 2021
Daily meditations with Martin Aylward.
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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
Leela Sarti
Recorded : November 8, 2021
This week's theme is "Deepening Heart Presence: Life, Dukkha, and Beyond". We need heart presence in order to digest life experience. It takes a lot of heart to live with integrity, sensitivity and openness....
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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
Nirmala Werner
Recorded : November 1, 2021
This week's theme is "Embodied Metta - The Body as a Pathway to Freedom".
The Buddha's teachings invite us to be with things as they are. This week, we'll learn embodiment practices to help us...
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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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With
Nathan Glyde
Recorded : October 25, 2021
This week's theme is "Making Sense of Self".
Although the Buddha encourages us to not indulgently ponder whether the self is real or not, he did offer us a way to explore how the sense...
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With
Vince Cullen
Recorded : October 24, 2021
During this session we be explore life’s basic necessities and drives, and the critical difference between ‘getting along’ and ‘getting ahead.’ Our meditation practice will be based on the Wise-Heartedness Bhavana to help us...
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With
Zohar Lavie
Recorded : October 18, 2021
This week's theme is: The Abundant Middle-Way.
The Buddha in his last steps of awakening turned away from austerities and the practiced hardships he had endured. He did not turn back to the indulgences of...
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With
Gregory Kramer
Recorded : October 17, 2021
If humans are intrinsically relational creatures, how do we integrate this understanding with the Buddha’s teachings on suffering and its cessation? Relational suffering and craving? Dependent origination? In this session, we explore the power...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : October 11, 2021
We’re fortunate that Martin Aylward has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK this week. To find out more about Martin, and view his other recordings on the...
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With
Brian Dean Williams
Recorded : October 10, 2021
The pandemic has highlighted now, more than ever, how interconnected we are with life on this planet, and also the importance of human connection for us as social animals. The preciousness of relationship is...
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : October 4, 2021
This week's theme is: Meeting the Bodily Companion
Mindfulness of the body is a key aspect of practice. When we're in contact with our bodies, we root ourselves in the present moment and find refuge...
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With
Ronya Banks
Recorded : October 3, 2021
Cultivating embodied wisdom can provide us with lasting equanimity in the face of life’s inevitable ups and downs. During this session, Ronya offers Buddhist practices and frameworks to help us access deep peace and...
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With
Nathan Glyde
Recorded : September 27, 2021
This week's topic is "The Boundless Heart".
"As a mother would risk her life
to protect her child, her only child,
even so should one cultivate a limitless heart
with regard to all beings."
Karaniya Metta Sutta: translation Thānisarro...
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With
Nathan Glyde
Recorded : September 26, 2021
Dharma teachings are sublime, subtle, and onward leading: they are always going deeper and wider than we may first presume. Yet, they also meet us where we are, in the midst of our life....
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : September 20, 2021
We’re fortunate that Martin Aylward has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK this week. To find out more about Martin, and view his other recordings on the...
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With
Deborah Eden Tull
Recorded : September 19, 2021
This year, humanity has witnessed the alarming acceleration of climate change… the loss of forests and rivers, animal and plant species… and the potential annihilation of our species. Alongside our profound grief for what...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : September 13, 2021
We’re fortunate that Martin Aylward has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK this week. To find out more about Martin, and view his other recordings on the...
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With
Shaila Catherine
Recorded : September 12, 2021
Progress in meditation may be slower than we anticipate. Discouragement develops when the comparing mind holds unrealistic expectations, demands perfection, and craves for measurable progress, predictable results, or signposts of success. This talk explores...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : September 6, 2021
We’re fortunate that Martin Aylward has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK this week. To find out more about Martin, and view his other recordings on the...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : September 5, 2021
The fires and floods of this summer, and the ongoing pandemic and its complexities, can weigh heavy on the heart, along with the shocking but unsurprising new IPCC report confirming the ‘inevitable and irreversible’...
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