Dharma Library
Enjoy video recordings of our previous live Sunday Sangha and Daily Meditation sessions, offered on dana basis.
The Wisdom of the Body
With Recorded : November 28, 2021
While we might think of the body as flesh and blood, there is so much more to this mortal coil. The body in fact may be our deepest teacher. In this session, we explore...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Jaya Rudgard – Week of Nov 22, 2021
With 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...
Skillful Ways to Work with Difficult Thoughts in Meditation
With 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...
Getting Real with Spiritual Bypass
With 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...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Leela Sarti – Week of Nov 8, 2021
With 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....
Climate Code Red
With 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;...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nirmala Werner – Week of Nov 1, 2021
With 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...
Staying Open Through Change, Loss and Disruption
With 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...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nathan Glyde – Week of Oct 25, 2021
With 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...
Cabbages & Condoms
With 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...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of October 18, 2021
With 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...
A Relational Dhamma
With 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...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of Oct 11, 2021
With 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...
The Power of Connection
With 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...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ulla Koenig – Week of October 4, 2021
With 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...
Embodied Wisdom: the Fruit of Buddhist Practice
With 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...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nathan Glyde – Week of Sept 27, 2021
With 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...
Getting Free: The Infinite Middle of the MiddleWay
With 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....
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of Sept 20, 2021
With 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...
Compassion, Emergence and Climate Change
With 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...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of Sept 13, 2021
With 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...
The Roots of Discouragement
With 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...