Dharma Library
Enjoy video recordings of our previous live Sunday Sangha and Daily Meditation sessions, offered on dana basis.
The Necessity of Trust
With Recorded : May 28, 2023
The qualities of trust, faith, and confidence are essential for mental health, profound spiritual explorations and the depth of relationships. To serve well, trust needs cultivating in conjunction with qualities of discerning wisdom and...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nirmala Werner – Week of May 22 – 27, 2023
With Recorded : May 22, 2023
This week's topic is "The Steam of a Cup of Tea: Teachings on Generosity, Gratitude and Renunciation". Can we achieve happiness and wealth by giving? Can we experience abundance through simplicity? In this exploration,...
Imagination: An Integral Aspect of Liberating the Heart
With Recorded : May 21, 2023
Our heart/mind is naturally creative; it foresees, remembers, dreams, and perceives. The products of our imagination shape our intentions, expanding the realm of possibilities beyond what we’ve learned, seen, or experienced thus far. We...
Practicing the Middle Way: Navigating Between Extremes
With Recorded : May 14, 2023
The Buddha invites us to travel the Middle Path, between extremes. How do we navigate this path that leads to knowledge, understanding and liberation? We practice with mindfulness and kindness to meet our day...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ulla Koenig – Week of May 8, 2023
With Recorded : May 8, 2023
This week's theme is "Shedding Light on Darkness". In the Buddhist tradition, we find three psycho-physical dynamics which bring together suffering, stress and dissatisfaction. Beside aggression and wanting, the root of moha, often translated...
Dancing with Dukkha and Sukha: Meeting the 10,000 joys and sorrows of our daily lives
With Recorded : May 7, 2023
In this ever-changing landscape of living, the buddha dharma and psychological inquiry offer us skillful ways to pause and soften into the things that bring pain and suffering, while also reminding us to fully...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of May 1, 2023
With Recorded : May 1, 2023
This week's topic is "A Path of Wisdom and Compassion". Practicing Insight Meditation supports an understanding of how wellbeing is nourished, and how ill-being is conditioned. Attending to our own heart and mind with...
The Noble Search: In the Footsteps of the Buddha
With Recorded : April 30, 2023
The pursuit of freedom and happiness in the Buddha’s journey holds significant relevance to our own lives, particularly during challenging times. Embracing uncertainty, stepping out of our comfort zones, maintaining integrity, and risking it...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with James Rafael – Week of April 24, 2023
With Recorded : April 24, 2023
This week's topic is "Fluidity and Flux: Gateways to a Kinder, More Inclusive World". The Buddha’s teachings on impermanence and compassion offer us gateways to cultivate a kinder, more inclusive world for all. Impermanence...
Mindfulness, Samadhi, Insight and Patriarchy: Seeing and Not Seeing Things As They Actually Are
With Recorded : April 23, 2023
When the mind is both bright and still, it sees things that are usually hidden to it. And there are things it does not see. And there can be apprehensions that change everything, and...
Trusting Impermanence
With Recorded : April 16, 2023
‘All things fall apart’ was the Buddha’s last teaching before passing away. How can we live peacefully with this universal and challenging truth? In this session, we’ll practice how attuning to change supports letting...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Christine Kupfer – Week of April 10, 2022
With Recorded : April 10, 2023
This week's topic is "Body like a temple". We often refer to the body as if it were a functional tool. We talk about my body, as if it were supposed to be at...
Courage to Love
With Recorded : April 9, 2023
I cannot be fully me if you are not fully who you are destined to be. I AM Because We Are.
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nathan Glyde – Week of April 3, 2023
With Recorded : April 3, 2023
This week's topic is "Imagine That". Edgar Allan Poe wondered, “Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?” According to naive realism, we do not perceive things as they...
Whole body breathing to regulate your mind and body
With Recorded : April 2, 2023
In this session Vidyamala introduces key areas of body awareness where mindful breathing can help to bring about regulation and calm in the body/heart/mind. She calls these the 5 B’s of the breath: Buttocks,...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Sophie Boyer – Week of March 27, 2022
With Recorded : March 27, 2023
This week's topic is "Movement in Stillness". The flow of life is unpredictable, and its instability and the changes it presents often throw us off balance. The Buddha suggests adopting an approach where beauty...
You Are NOT Doomed: Breaking & Replacing Old Patterns
With Recorded : March 26, 2023
You may have noticed that sometimes breaking old patterns is hard to do! But thanks to surviving ancient Buddhist teachings, we are NOT doomed to being stuck in the rut of the same old...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nirmala Werner – Week of March 20 – 24, 2023
With Recorded : March 20, 2023
This week's topic is "The Art of Embodied Listening". This week is an invitation to explore the skill of true, deep and embodied listening. Living in a culture where people are mainly self-focused, wanting...
Discovering Diamonds in Darkness: Racism & Cultural Diversity
With Recorded : March 19, 2023
Racism and cultural identity have indiscriminately been seeded into human consciousness since the beginning of humanity. The health of any community begins with the Sense of Self. This Dharma assembly will focus on our...
The Energy of Presence
With Recorded : March 12, 2023
This session explores ways that qigong, a Chinese energy cultivation practice, can deepen our embodied presence. There is discussion, intention-led movement and meditation to help ground our awareness, free up blockages and discover ways...