With
Oren Jay Sofer
Recorded : June 26, 2022
In an effort to counter tendencies towards striving and over-achieving, many Western approaches to meditation and spirituality emphasize relaxation. While relaxation and ease are essential ingredients on the meditative path, they must be integrated...
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With
Milla Gregor
Recorded : June 20, 2022
This week's topic is Skills for Inner and Outer Transformation. Dharma practice gives us great tools for inner and interpersonal change. It’s empowering to explore how these can also be useful for social and...
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With
Nina La Rosa
Recorded : June 19, 2022
Where’s your body? Can you feel it? Is it still there?! Life is full. There’s so much to plan and think about. We can go hours without feeling a single breath or footstep. Can...
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : June 13, 2022
This week's topic is Healing Shame and Guilt. Psychologists describe shame as soul-eating emotion. Shame and guilt prevent us from developing trusting connections with others and a healthy sense of appreciation for ourselves. The...
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With
Kate Johnson
Recorded : June 12, 2022
In these times of isolation and uprising, how can wise relationships be a refuge? Join us for an exploration of the Buddha’s teachings on spiritual friendship, and how they can help us embody freedom...
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With
Christopher Titmuss
Recorded : June 6, 2022
This week's theme is: From Mindfulness to Clear Seeing. Clear seeing includes the past, present and future. Clear seeing includes dependent arising conditions for all three fields, so we do not become dependent on...
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With
Christopher Titmuss
Recorded : June 5, 2022
The world of mind-body, mindfulness, meditation and well-being maximises priority on conventional or relative truth. This requires wise attention and change relative to our experience. We are familiar with taking up views, remaining neutral...
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With
Zohar Lavie
Recorded : May 30, 2022
This week's theme is: Bringing the Practice to Life. The Buddha’s teachings emphasise the whole of our lives as a rich ground for exploration and growth. Through meditation, we cultivate skills and ways of relating...
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With
Zohar Lavie
Recorded : May 29, 2022
The practice of equanimity supports us to find balance, stability and steadiness within the changing conditions of our lives. We can then respond with wisdom and compassion to whatever is unfolding. Equanimity is a...
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With
Nathan Glyde
Recorded : May 23, 2022
This week's topic is An Enigma Inside A Mystery. We typically freeze in amazement or feverishly search for causes when we suffer dukkha (life's tension). We've probably all experienced how these reactions exacerbate the problem. The...
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With
Pamela Weiss
Recorded : May 22, 2022
The divisiveness we see around us begins in the binary mind: self and other, me and you, us and them. In each moment, we like and don’t like, pick and choose, evaluate and judge....
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : May 16, 2022
Daily meditations with Martin Aylward.
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With
Tenku Ruff Osho
Recorded : May 15, 2022
Sometimes as much as we want to help, we feel stuck. When we see children suffering and grandmothers crying in Ukraine, our hearts break, but the enormity of suffering feels like more than we...
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : May 9, 2022
This week's topic is Disentangle the Net of Needs. We all have needs. Existential needs, needs for safety, connection, spirituality and much more. Our attitude towards needs, what strategies we choose to meet them...
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With
Justine Dawson
Recorded : May 8, 2022
When a monk asked the 10th Century Zen master Yunmen, “What are the teachings of a whole lifetime?” Yunmen replied, “An appropriate response.” What is this appropriate response and how do we know we’ve got...
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With
Zohar Lavie
Recorded : May 2, 2022
This week's theme is: Opportunities for Deepening Compassion and Wisdom. Dharma teachings and practices invite us to use our difficulties and problems to awaken our hearts. Rather than seeing the unwanted aspects of life as...
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With
Brian Dean Williams
Recorded : May 1, 2022
The Buddha spoke of the three poisons of greed, hatred, and delusion. We see all three of these showing up in the realm of global events currently, and in particular, the phenomenon of ‘fake...
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With
Catherine McGee
Recorded : April 25, 2022
This week's theme is "Exploring and Developing the Power of a Light Touch". A light touch can allow our practice to unfold more easefully, make the depths of our hearts more available and create a...
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With
Shaila Catherine
Recorded : April 24, 2022
Shaila will be sharing teachings from her new book, Beyond Distraction. This talk will introduce five pragmatic strategies to help you overcome distraction in meditation and develop clarity in relationships, work, and daily life. The...
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With
Leela Sarti
Recorded : April 18, 2022
This week's theme is "Timeless Presence in Daily Life: Being Yourself, Being at Home". This week we will be exploring the possibility of being grounded in the depth of timeless presence in the midst of...
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With
Leigh Brasington
Recorded : April 17, 2022
2 Kings. Palace Intrigue. A Murder. 500 Elephants. A nighttime visit to see the Buddha. And that’s just the backstory to one of the Buddha’s deepest teachings: his curriculum for spiritual advancement. Join us...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : April 11, 2022
Daily meditations with Martin Aylward.
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With
Akincano Weber
Recorded : April 10, 2022
During this session we discuss the teaching on ‘wisely directing one’s attention to the roots’ (yoniso manasikāra). It is a remarkably pragmatic approach to contemplative practice and one of Early Buddhism’s unique contributions to...
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With
Nathan Glyde
Recorded : April 4, 2022
This week's topic is A Sense of Essence. In his teachings the Buddha utilised the liberating yet frequently misunderstood concept of karma. Karma refers to how an action is carried out rather than the...
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