With
Christopher Titmuss
Recorded : September 9, 2024
This week's topic is "The Changeless. Knock, knock on Heaven's Door". Conventional human experience reveals the subject and the object. The object includes, mind/body/things/world/time/space and here and now. All of these are subject to...
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With
Drs Larry Ward and Peggy Rowe Ward
Recorded : September 8, 2024
The harvest is a beautiful and important part of life each year. A time when our good work bears fruit and people are fed. A time of thanksgiving and prayers. How do we participate...
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With
Christine Kupfer
Recorded : September 2, 2024
This week's topic is "Freeing The Heart-Mind From Doubt". Doubt is like any other mind state. But it is a tricky one and can be a sticky one. It’s questioning component is a means...
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With
Willa Blythe Baker
Recorded : September 1, 2024
We live in challenging times. Biologists speak of micro-systems where species sequester during times of crisis. They are called refugia. In times of uncertainty and fear, we too need refugia, places of spiritual safety...
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With
Miles Kessler
Recorded : July 29, 2024
This week's topic is "Cutting Through To Ultimate Reality". The word "Dhamma" means ultimate reality, the absolute, or universal principles. This refers to the 3 universal characteristics of conditioned phenomena, and to Nibbana, the...
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With
Deborah Eden Tull
Recorded : July 28, 2024
Join us for an experiential practice and embodied inquiry into speaking from the heart and engaging in courageous conversations. Our challenges are gateways to relational presence. By bringing compassionate awareness to habits of mind...
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With
Milla Gregor
Recorded : July 22, 2024
This week's theme is "Comfort and Discomfort". Comfort and discomfort can show up in practice, as well as in life. In what ways are they interwoven? What assumptions do we make about them that...
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With
Kim Allen
Recorded : July 21, 2024
Simplicity underlies Dharma practice. It’s common that when people begin to meditate, even if they have a full life with a job and family, they begin to realize that simplicity is a deep value....
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With
Christine Kupfer
Recorded : July 15, 2024
This week's topic is "Freeing The Heart-Mind From Doubt". Doubt is like any other mind state. But it is a tricky one and can be a sticky one. It’s questioning component is a means...
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With
Shaila Catherine
Recorded : July 14, 2024
In this Sunday Sangha session, we will address the common tendencies to judge and compare. Wise discernment is useful, but excessive comparing and compulsive judging can harm relationships, obscure the clarity of perception, and...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : July 8, 2024
This week's topic is "Love and Letting Go: Meeting Life Spaciously and Graciously". Join us for a series of Daily Meditations where we'll discover how to meet life with openness and grace. Together, we...
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With
Pamela Weiss
Recorded : July 7, 2024
This talk will explore the Three Refuges — Buddha, Dharma and Sangha — as sources of true refuge in difficult times. The teaching of the Refuges is found within all schools of Buddhism and...
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With
Nathan Glyde
Recorded : July 1, 2024
This week's topic is "Alight, Enlight, Delight". The Buddha is recorded as saying “be a lamp unto yourself”. Let's explore enlightening experience by releasing unnecessary burdens, brighten the heart by delighting in the...
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With
Lisa Ernst
Recorded : June 30, 2024
Karma is action in Buddhism, driven by intention. With practice we cultivate the ability to choose our response and our actions, internally and externally. We might think if our intentions are good our actions...
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With
Miles Kessler
Recorded : June 24, 2024
This week's topic is "Let Come, Let Go, Let Be, Let Grow - Practicing the 4 Noble Truths". Join Miles in this exploration of the Buddha’s 4 Noble Truths. Over 5 days you will...
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With
Daigan Gaither
Recorded : June 23, 2024
Using the hagiography of the Bodhisattvas of Compassion, Wisdom, and Activity, let’s explore how to bring those ideals into our everyday life off the cushion. What can these perfections of compassion, wisdom and activity...
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : June 17, 2024
This week's theme is "Preparing the Heart and Mind". In Buddhist practice we often hear we should let go. And often enough we would really like to let go of those thoughts, impulses, moods...
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With
Toby Sola
Recorded : June 16, 2024
Shodo Harada Roshi is known as a “teacher of teachers”, with masters from various lineages coming to sit with him in Japan. If you went to Harada’s monastery, the main meditation technique you’d learn...
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With
Christopher Titmuss
Recorded : June 10, 2024
This week's topic is "Letting Go. An Act of the Will?"
We pick up a hot coal in the morning from the wood burner.
Ouch, we let go immediately. No thought. No desire. Instant letting go.
The...
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With
Yahel Avigur
Recorded : June 9, 2024
Samadhi is the art of nourishing, gathering, and collecting the heart. Highly regarded by the Buddha, this practice relies on honesty and wisdom, reliably leading to joy and happiness, and inclines the heart towards...
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With
Zohar Lavie
Recorded : June 3, 2024
This week's topic is "Letting Go, Cultivating Deep Peace". The Buddha’s teachings offer a profoundly pragmatic, compassionate and wise response to the human condition. During this week we will explore the art of pausing,...
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With
JD Doyle
Recorded : June 2, 2024
Allowing the beautiful to guide us in our practice opens up possibilities beyond our conditioned habits. Awakening to beauty involves being with the messiness and the challenges of our lives. Beauty does not belong...
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With
Nirmala Werner
Recorded : May 27, 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
Juha Penttilä
Recorded : May 26, 2024
In this session we’ll explore opening to the practices of vastness of awareness. Through listening and sensing we will open up to a sense of spaciousness and explore letting go within it.
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