Dharma Library
Enjoy video recordings of our previous live Sunday Sangha and Daily Meditation sessions, offered on dana basis.
Abandoning the Future – Caring for All Days to Come
With Recorded : December 6, 2020
To care for our lives, the lives of all beings and the earth is all at the heart of what it means to be a human being. Yet, speculating about the future, and tensing...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of November 30, 2020
With Recorded : November 30, 2020
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...
Endarkenment: Embracing the Medicine of Light and Dark
With Recorded : November 29, 2020
As we enter the darker months of the year, consider the profound restoration and healing that darkness offers us— both physically and symbolically. Darkness is often considered the absence of light, but it is...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of November 23, 2020
With Recorded : November 23, 2020
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...
Engaged Dharma and Systemic Change: A Dharma Inquiry into the Archetype of Spiritual Warrior
With Recorded : November 22, 2020
As engaged dharma increasingly shifts focus from palliative ministry to systemic change within our times of poly crises, what is Buddhist “Right Action?” This session explores Spiritual Warriorship as Dharma practice from within a...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Jaya Rudgard – Week of November 16, 2020
With Recorded : November 16, 2020
We're fortunate that Jaya Rudgard has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK. To find out more about Jaya, click here.
The Unshakeable Heart: Liberation as the Ultimate Resilience
With Recorded : November 15, 2020
Is it possible to live and love freely amidst the greed, aggression and dysfunction of the world?Amidst so much suffering, can you nourish joy, lightness and laughter?When it feels as if you’re drowning, might...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of November 9, 2020
With Recorded : November 9, 2020
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...
Apply as Needed; the Benefits of Skillful Means
With Recorded : November 8, 2020
Becoming quiet allows for deeper listening – to the whispers of the body, heart and mind as parts of a whole and as harmonic convergence. How we tune our instruments depends on what we...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of November 2, 2020
With Recorded : November 2, 2020
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...
Living by Vow
With Recorded : November 1, 2020
If we start with the understanding that everyone is living by vow, how can we examine what vows we are following and change to follow the ones that lead to liberation?
Self and Not-Self: Who (What) are You?
With Recorded : October 25, 2020
This talk explores classic Buddhist teachings about anatta: self and not-self as well highlighting how other traditions and modalities recognized self and what it means to be free from self. We investigate self and...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of October 19, 2020
With Recorded : October 19, 2020
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...
Practice as a Way of Remembrance
With Recorded : October 18, 2020
Many are referring to this time as apocalyptic. Fair enough. It can seem as though everywhere we turn a dismantling of some sort is in the works. While we might intellectually feel able to...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Kaira Jewel Lingo – Week of October 12, 2020
With Recorded : October 12, 2020
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...
Methodology, Ideology and Cosmology: Three Dimensions of a Full Spectrum Practice
With Recorded : October 11, 2020
Dharma practice is sometimes seen too reductively through a uniquely meditative lens. This class looks not only at what you practice (methodology) but also at why you practice (ideology) and at your understanding of...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Kaira Jewel Lingo – Week of October 5, 2020
With Recorded : October 5, 2020
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...
Meeting Grief with Love
With Recorded : October 4, 2020
Amidst so many changes and so much loss this year, many of us are grieving. We may be grieving the loss of a loved one, of our own health, of a job, or even...
The Monastery has Come to Us: Working with Thoughts and Emotions to Fuel Our Awakening in a Demanding Time
With Recorded : September 27, 2020
We’re in uncharted territory. Each day brings new shocks and challenges. How is it possible to respond with flexibility, kindness, and wisdom? Together we will get through this. Let’s practice a meditation strategy to...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of September 21, 2020
With Recorded : September 21, 2020
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...
Compassion is a Political Act
With Recorded : September 20, 2020
This session is invitation for white practitioners and others to join Vimalasara in a discussion on the theme of liberation, the central tenet of Buddhist teachings. No one is liberated until we are all...