Dharma Library
Enjoy video recordings of our previous live Sunday Sangha and Daily Meditation sessions, offered on dana basis.
Touching the Earth: Turning the Mind to the Roots
With 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...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nathan Glyde – Week of April 4, 2022
With 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...
What Am I Doing In Here
With Recorded : April 3, 2022
The practice of Mindfulness from breath to breath is essential. If you have knowledge of the Four Noble Truths then you have the foundation; only practice is needed to gain insight into the Dharma. ...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ulla Koenig – Week of March 28, 2022
With Recorded : March 28, 2022
This week's topic is Shelter from the Storm. Whether it is restlessness, worry, anxiety, panic, worry or rumination, all aspects of fear have one thing in common: they rob us of our peace of...
Precepts as Orientation
With Recorded : March 27, 2022
The 5 precepts often given to lay practitioners are (with positive instructions in parenthesis): I vow not to kill (Love and support all beings)I vow not to steal (generosity)I vow not to misuse sexuality...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nathan Glyde – Week of March 21, 2022
With Recorded : March 21, 2022
This week’s topic is: Harmonising Our Life. The Buddha's wisdom highlights how we often live entangled in stress and distress. The earliest mentions of this disharmonious state called it being in an argument with...
The Paramis of Generosity + Morality: A Movement Towards a Shared World
With Recorded : March 20, 2022
In a world riddled with addiction, violence and loneliness, it can feel challenging to figure out how to reclaim our humanity. We can begin by remembering that we belong to each other. On this...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of March 14, 2022
With Recorded : March 14, 2022
This week's theme is: Gathering in the Goodness. 'Drop by drop the pot of goodness is filled.' -Buddha. Gathering in community we become more than the sum of our parts. We are each supported by,...
Love & Boundaries
With Recorded : March 13, 2022
Our practice cultivates qualities of boundless love, whether through loving kindness practice, or opening to the love inherent in deep states of awareness. But can we really love everyone boundlessly? What about political leaders...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Leela Sarti – Week of March 7, 2022
With Recorded : March 7, 2022
This week's theme is "Nurturing a Long View and Living Now". It takes a lot of heart and presence to live a satisfying and meaningful life. Our inner patterns of resistance and reactivity often make...
Cultivating Wise Energy
With Recorded : March 6, 2022
Everything we do in life depends on energy, but the modern world has a destructive and exploitative relationship with energy. What is wise, balanced energy in spiritual practice? How can we establish this in...
Awareness Shift: Knowing the Nature of the Body, Heart/Mind through the 5 Elements
With Recorded : February 27, 2022
Sometimes a simple shift of our perception can change our sense of everything and allow for a fresh experience of the personal and transpersonal simultaneously. There is so much more ease in a relaxed, open...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nathan Glyde – Week of Feb 21, 2022
With Recorded : February 21, 2022
This week’s topic is: Deeply Rooted, Fully Alive. This week we will explore the profound, yet accessible teachings of equipoise and equanimity. One of the best images for this sensitive balancing relationship with all...
What Exists Beyond Our Boundaries?
With Recorded : February 20, 2022
Spiritual practice is often a journey to discover spaciousness, openness and absorption into everything else. From form to formless. From more spaciousness in the mind to subtle and beautiful limitless states that are clearly...
When Life Throws Curve Balls: Exploring Groundlessness and Freedom
With Recorded : February 13, 2022
Right now, holding certainty about many aspects of life is impossible. Together we explore how our practice can support us when not knowing feels groundless and how we can find freedom even when the...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of February 7, 2022
With Recorded : February 7, 2022
This week's theme is: Finding Happiness and Wellbeing on the Path
The understanding of how dukkha is conditioned and constructed lies at the heart of Dharma teachings. Dukkha and wellbeing are in relationship with each...
Nature Awareness Practice in the Anthropocene
With Recorded : February 6, 2022
For many people, the natural world is a perennial place of refuge, resource and replenishment. It can be a profound support for bringing awareness into the outdoors. Yet, nature is under increasingly under siege....
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Jaya Rudgard – Week of Jan 31, 2022
With Recorded : January 31, 2022
Embodied and Awake: Meditations for Body, Heart and Mind.
Mind, body and emotion form a constant feedback loop. As the traditional teachings on mindfulness make clear, all three equally deserve our interested, caring attention. When...
We Journey from Birth Onto Death. Does Life Offer Something More?
With Recorded : January 30, 2022
Life seems an inevitable movement in the field of time until death interrupts. Amidst the myriad number of events, welcome and unwelcome, we hastily conclude the way we perceive reveals the way things are.
The Thing You Can Count On
With Recorded : January 23, 2022
In times like these with so much uncertainty, fear and suffering, how can we keep our center in a world that sometimes seems to be spinning out of control?