With
Sophie Boyer
Recorded : May 13, 2024
This week's topic is "Trust the Process". There is a natural space that is always available to us. A space before thoughts, before duality. Every day there will be an opportunity to come back...
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With
Heidi Bourne
Recorded : May 12, 2024
Life is never only good or only bad, pleasant or unpleasant, comfortable or uncomfortable, just or unjust. Cultivating a wide spacious perspective within the reality of uncertainty gives rise to a bigger capacity to meet...
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With
Zohar Lavie
Recorded : May 6, 2024
This week's topic is "Finding Balance in the Midst of Uncertainty". Dharma teachings support us in meeting the wholeness of our lives with interest, gentleness and creativity. Acknowledging the inconstancy and flux of our...
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With
Maura Sills
Recorded : May 5, 2024
In the territory of inherent health we are all equal. To really know this with the heartmind impacts our practice at all levels. One of the more important shifts in our practice is recognising...
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With
Nirmala Werner
Recorded : April 29, 2024
This week's topic is "Mindfulness of the nervous system: transforming fear, struggle and separation into love and connection". We humans are social animals and need each other to feel safe and secure, to grow...
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With
Frank Ostaseski
Recorded : April 28, 2024
Love is the essential quality needed for the journey through life. The heart’s desire for deep connection fuels the journey, inspires and deepens our practice. This is why at some point we stop practicing to...
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With
Trudy Goodman
Recorded : April 21, 2024
Mindful presence is the necessary ground of compassion and care. With presence, we courageously enter an intimacy that connects us with ourselves, each other and the world, body, heart and spirit. The beautiful truth...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : April 15, 2024
This week's topic is "The Dharma and the Drama: Illuminating Heart and World". Each day this week, Martin will offer some brief reflections as an introduction to meditating together, with the dual focus of...
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With
George Haas
Recorded : April 14, 2024
We will discuss Attachment Theory in the context of Buddhist Theravada Practice, exploring the traditional Buddhist path to liberation using descriptions of Attachment conditioning as a way to understand obstacles to practice. We will...
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : April 8, 2024
This week's theme is "All Life is Practice". In this week of exploring the four noble truths together, we will take a good look at the eightfold path and relate it to our own...
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With
Emily Horn
Recorded : April 7, 2024
Similar to the phases of the moon, our spiritual practice is full of natural rhythms and seasons. In this session we will learn a simple chart, called the phases of insight, that supports recognizing what...
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With
Nathan Glyde
Recorded : April 1, 2024
This week's topic is "Liberating View". The Buddha recommended adopting three skilful and liberating views: that all things are transient; that they cannot bring long-term happiness; and that phenomena are not self. These provide...
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With
Nikki Mirghafori
Recorded : March 31, 2024
What is equanimity, and how does it differ from indifference? What different forms and subtleties of equanimity are presented in various Buddhist teachings, often occupying the prestigious last spot on the lists? How does...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : March 25, 2024
This week's topic is "Human nature, Buddha nature". Each day this week we’ll begin meditation with a reflection on elements of human nature that can be welcomed, explored and transformed through a path of...
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With
Oren Jay Sofer
Recorded : March 24, 2024
How do we keep the heart open and strong amidst so much pain and suffering in our world? What does our contemplative practice have to offer in times of upheaval and change? Join author...
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With
Ayala Gill
Recorded : March 18, 2024
This week's topic is "Love’s Flavours and Flow". Love never leaves us. It’s already here in each thought, sight, taste, smell, sound, sensation and movement. Love is already here, resting beside each pain, celebrating...
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With
Anna-Brown Griswold
Recorded : March 17, 2024
Based in the Buddhist tradition, Insight Dialogue harnesses the power of relationship to amplify, refine, and accelerate the development of mindfulness. Consisting of 6 meditative guidelines practiced in dyads or more, the practice supports the...
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With
Sophie Boyer
Recorded : March 11, 2024
This week's topic is "To Be on the Road Without Leaving Home". Zen Master Hakuin reveals an apparent tension between movement and stillness in this statement. What may the road refer to? What is...
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With
Dave Smith
Recorded : March 10, 2024
So much of what we hear and learn about within Dharma practice places an arguably unnecessary emphasis on suffering (dukkha). While the acceptance of suffering (dukkha) is an important and essential aspect of the...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : March 4, 2024
This week's topic is "Wide and Deep: an Integrated Practice in Meditation and in Life". This week at Sangha live, the morning meditations with Martin will draw each day on elements of dharma practice...
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With
Roshi Joan Halifax
Recorded : March 3, 2024
We will explore through practice and teachings the importance of “appamada” or heedfulness, conscientiousness, or what Stephen Batchelor has translated as care. Appamada has been called the path to the deathless. ” Just as the...
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With
Christine Kupfer
Recorded : February 26, 2024
This week's topic is "Fear and Fearlessness in the Midst of Uncertainty". We try to secure our lives by any means necessary. We do our best, we tend to our business, and boom!, a...
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With
Sean Oakes
Recorded : February 25, 2024
This weekend is the Buddhist full moon ritual known as Māgha Pūjā, one of the three great festival days in the Theravāda Buddhist calendar, also known as “Saṅgha Day,” celebrating the spiritual community. The...
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With
Miles Kessler
Recorded : February 19, 2024
What is your relationship to fear? When fear arises, is your tendency to collapse into it, or to resist and struggle with it? Or do you deny it? How do you know if you...
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