Dharma Library
Enjoy video recordings of our previous live Sunday Sangha and Daily Meditation sessions, offered on dana basis.
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...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Catherine McGee – Week of March 6, 2023
With Recorded : March 6, 2023
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...
Transformation Lives in the Butterfly Garden
With Recorded : March 5, 2023
We are living in a time of change that is evolutionary in its mystery, scope and depth. Emerging values of wellness of the self, Earth and society call us beyond the trance of colonial...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ulla Koenig – Week of Feb 27, 2023
With Recorded : February 27, 2023
This week's theme is "Samadhi - Doors of Harmony". The Buddha encouraged us to nourish, calm, gladden and liberate our heart-mind (citta). To know ways to inner harmony, stillness and contentment independently of outer...
Loving Awareness: Finding Freedom Within
With Recorded : February 26, 2023
"This thing person called "me", the one who is sensing, thinking and perceiving right now….who or what is it? This is an age old question that the traditions of the East, especially Buddhism and...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nathan Glyde – Week of February 20, 2023
With Recorded : February 20, 2023
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...
Return to Unity: Seeing Through Duality
With Recorded : February 19, 2023
Dualities are endless. Why? Because when we look through the lens of duality, everything seen appears to be dualistic. Join Caverly for a Dharma talk revolving around a reading from her new book The...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of February 13, 2023
With Recorded : February 13, 2023
This week's topic is "Awakening in the Midst of Life". Our relationship with life is revealed through our words, thoughts and actions. Reflecting on these in the light of the Dharma opens up possibilities...
Discovering the Joy of Sensory Awareness: Mindfulness in Nature
With Recorded : February 12, 2023
When we turn our attention to the sensory, natural world around us, mindfulness practice can become easeful and expansive. Nature allures awareness through her beauty, and range of dynamic, enchanting experience. In this session...
The ‘Self’ is Insubstantial
With Recorded : February 5, 2023
Humans live in the spell of the self, as if it had substantial existence. Dharma offers a reflection/meditation/inquiry into this phenomenon. One who asks 'Who Wakes Up?' lives in the spell. Teaching will offer...
How We Grow Through What We Go Through
With Recorded : January 29, 2023
How can we, and our communities, not just survive but thrive during challenging, post-traumatic times? Spirituality, positive psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, mindfulness and more have boosted human resilience in the face of adversity for generations....
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nirmala Werner – Week of Jan 23 – 27, 2023
With Recorded : January 23, 2023
This week's theme is "5 Doorways to Love". What hinders our love? Where are we blocked? Desire, anger, dullness, restlessness and doubt are the so-called 5 hindrances: qualities in the mind which obstruct mindfulness...
This Is What We Are: Foam, Bubbles, Mirage, Banana Tree Trunks and Magical Shows
With Recorded : January 22, 2023
In this session, we will explore the Buddha’s wise use of images in the Phena Sutta. We will see how these are representations of the deepest teachings of Insight Meditation and how they can...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ulla Koenig – Week of Jan 16, 2023
With Recorded : January 16, 2023
This week's theme is "Change, Loss and Dying: Meeting the Common Denominator". When we come in touch with the fragility of our existence, it is only natural that fear or sadness might well up....
Gladness of the Wholesome: The Buddha’s Teaching on Awakening Joy
With Recorded : January 15, 2023
The Buddha was known as The Happy One. Though Joy is one of the Seven Factors of Awakening, with so much emphasis on working with suffering, joy can sometimes seem frivolous or unspiritual. His...
Saddha: Unshakeable Confidence
With Recorded : January 8, 2023
So many of us feel assailed by doubt, anxiety and insecurity. Unhelpful self-talk, along with the uncertainties of the world, heighten and reinforce thought tendencies. Dharma practice helps us recognize and uproot ingrained patterns,...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of January 02, 2023
With Recorded : January 2, 2023
This week's topic is "Nourishing Intention". Intention plays a key role in meditation practice, as well as in many areas of our lives. During this week of practice we will explore what supports the...
Sitting With Our Ancestors
With Recorded : December 18, 2022
In times of struggle we can always call on the ancestors. Our affinity ones are just as important as our biological ones. The Buddhist path is full of affinity beings who inspire us. Join...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of December 12, 2022
With Recorded : December 12, 2022
This week's topic is "Interwoven and Free" The Buddha invited us to investigate our experience moment by moment. One of the key things we uncover as we do this is that separation is an...