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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With
Nina La Rosa
Recorded : July 25, 2021
In traditional Theravada Buddhism it’s said that for one to truly experience freedom one needs to engage in the practices of both wisdom and compassion. Like a bird that needs two wings to fly,...
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : July 19, 2021
This week's theme is: Identifying the Many Masks of the Inner Critic
Often we think of the inner critic as the constant nagging inner discourse which dismisses our good qualities, questions our lovability, and our...
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : July 18, 2021
What effect does it have if we practice mindfulness and meditation motivated by the fundamental assumption that there is something wrong with us? Perspectives such as ‘not being good enough’ or being ‘damaged goods’...
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With
Zohar Lavie
Recorded : July 12, 2021
This week's theme is: Equally Close to All Things: Explorations in Equanimity.
Life includes both pleasant and unpleasant experiences, ups and down, joys and sorrows. Equanimity invites us to meet all of these with tenderness...
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With
Diana Winston
Recorded : July 11, 2021
There are many ways to practice mindfulness, from the focused and deliberate to the expansive and relaxed. In this session, Diana teaches about natural awareness, which is a wide open, spacious, effortless awareness of...
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With
Zohar Lavie
Recorded : July 5, 2021
This week's theme is: The Power of Compassion.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. – Dalai Lama
During this week we will explore how compassion informs and supports meditation practice...
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With
Zohar Lavie
Recorded : July 4, 2021
A deeply conditioned habit of the human mind is to experience ourselves as independent and distinct from others and the world that we share. At the heart of Dharma teachings is the invitation to...
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With
Nathan Glyde
Recorded : June 28, 2021
This week's theme is: The Unbound Heart
Teachings of liberation expand our range of possibilities. They encourage us to discover a broader capacity of what we can contact, sense, and do. The teachings of the...
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With
Nirmala Werner
Recorded : June 27, 2021
There is a big emphasis in our society on doing good and being right. But rather than trying harder, being perfect and becoming a “better person” what about embracing ourselves just as we are,...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : June 21, 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
Kim Allen
Recorded : June 20, 2021
One of our best teachers is very close at hand. The body offers continual opportunities for healing and insight, both simple and profound. But what is the body? As we look more carefully, we...
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With
Nathan Glyde
Recorded : June 14, 2021
This week's theme is: Contentment Blockers
The Buddha named five key ways access to contentment is blocked, and gave clear and profound teachings that break through to the peace, joy, and freedom they obscure.
Our hearts...
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With
Oren Jay Sofer
Recorded : June 13, 2021
Mindfulness is the engine of meditation practice, and it tends to get all the press. But is mindfulness sufficient to transform our hearts, minds and lives? In this session, we’ll explore some of the...
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : June 7, 2021
This week's theme is: Mudita - Celebrating Aliveness. Our hearts possess infinite capacities: they can express friendship in the most surprising circumstances and turn with tenderness and care to those who suffer. But aside...
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With
Jaya Rudgard
Recorded : May 31, 2021
This week's topic is "Rediscovering Simplicity: Renunciation and the Art of Letting Go". Renunciation is one of the ten paramis or 'spiritual perfections' considered most conducive to happiness and wellbeing, and yet we tend...
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With
Deborah Eden Tull
Recorded : May 30, 2021
In this session, we explore the power of intuition and conscious use of the imaginal realm, on behalf of collective awakening. We are utilizing our imaginations all the time, by feeding conditioned thoughts, limiting...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : May 24, 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
Christopher Titmuss
Recorded : May 23, 2021
The Dharma flies with two wings – compassion and wisdom. Compassion emerges from a liberated wisdom. That happens when constructs in the mind lose their significance. The emptiness of self and the emptiness of...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : May 17, 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
Jessica Morey
Recorded : May 16, 2021
The Buddha taught about many forms of joy as both the path of practice and its fruit. In this session, we’ll explore the practice and discipline of cultivating and savoring joy in our life...
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With
Nathan Glyde
Recorded : May 10, 2021
This week's theme is: Invitation to Awaken.
The Buddha adopted a medical model to express the seminal and accessible four noble truths. We can see a diagnosis, a cause and symptoms, a cure, and a...
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