Dharma Library
Enjoy video recordings of our previous live Sunday Sangha and Daily Meditation sessions, offered on dana basis.
Welcoming the Beyond
With Recorded : October 15, 2023
What is beyond the ordinary mind? Can thought be background music, not a distraction? How can we access a consciousness that is open, free and limitless? How can we dive into the ocean instead...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Christine Kupfer – Week of October 9, 2023
With Recorded : October 9, 2023
This week's topic is "Presence: At the Heart of Everything, Free from Everything". I first heard this phrase when I was a young student of Zen. Since then I have practiced it every day....
Empower Your Self to Free Your Self
With Recorded : October 8, 2023
We know that Freedom is possible, yet many of us do not feel free. In this session we will explore Freedom. What do we mean by it? What is inhibiting us from experiencing it?...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of October 2, 2023
With Recorded : October 2, 2023
This week's topic is "Wholehearted Presence". Meeting experience as it unfolds with presence and interest, we uncover the wellbeing and freedom available to us on the Dharma path. Through this week's exploration we will...
Freedom without Expectations
With Recorded : October 1, 2023
One of the Buddha’s primary realisations was ‘Life is painful and then you die.’ If this is true, then how do we respond to the difficulties of life? This session will explore how we...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nathan Glyde – Week of Sept 25, 2023
With Recorded : September 25, 2023
This week's topic is "Getting A Feel For Feeling". As we perceive, we add a feeling (vedanā) to our experience. When we are unaware of this process and react to the projected feeling, it...
The Importance of the Uplifting Experience
With Recorded : September 24, 2023
The Buddha taught about life’s suffering—known as ‘dukkha’—and how our personal, social and global issues can weigh us down. Yet dukkha does not have the inherent power to stop ‘sukkha,’ or happiness, from breaking...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ulla Koenig – Week of September 18, 2023
With Recorded : September 18, 2023
This week's theme is "Understanding Suffering". Dukkha, often translated as suffering, is a central concept in the Buddha's teachings. This has led some to view Buddhism as adopting a negative outlook on life. But...
Exploring Practice: What it is, and Why we do it
With Recorded : September 17, 2023
What does it mean to practice? The term carries many interpretations and meanings. In this session, we won’t offer what practice should or shouldn’t mean for you; instead, we’ll embark on a journey of...
Lovingkindness in the Little Things
With Recorded : September 10, 2023
In this session Shaila Catherine explored the practice and purpose of lovingkindness (mettā) meditation. She clarified what mettā is, and what mettā is not. Mettā is more than merely an antidote to apply on...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Milla Gregor – Week of September 4, 2023
With Recorded : September 4, 2023
This week's theme is "Which comes first, your practice or your life?" Does your life support your practice, or your practice your life? For me, things have been shifting recently, leaving me with lots...
Your Most Expensive Resource
With Recorded : September 3, 2023
There is a substance we need for every meaningful part of our life. We only have a small amount of it, it’s being spent constantly, we can’t get more, and we’re surrounded by predators...
All Worldly Dharma is Buddha Dharma
With Recorded : July 30, 2023
Nowadays, many Buddhist practitioners have mistaken views. Taking the false to be true, we can make some progress, but not much. Only in the light of wisdom can we awaken to the truth because it...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Jaya Rudgard – Week of July 24, 2023
With Recorded : July 24, 2023
This week's theme is "Meditations on the Five Great Elements of Nature". The five elements or energetic properties of nature (earth, water, fire, wind and space) feature frequently in the Buddha's teaching and are...
Living by Vow
With Recorded : July 23, 2023
To live by vow is a radical reorientation – from reactivity to response-ability, and from fear to love. This session will examine what it means to walk the spiritual path, and consider the importance...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of July 17, 2023
With Recorded : July 17, 2023
This week's topic is "Deepening and Developing Unconditional Friendliness". Metta, translated as unconditional friendliness, is a powerful and transformative attitude. When we relate to ourselves, others and experience with metta, reactivity and ill being...
Mindfulness and the Four Noble Truths
With Recorded : July 16, 2023
Across all Buddhist lineages and traditions, the four noble truths hold the utmost importance. They are the Dharma’s most fundamental teaching. In modern society, the focus of Buddhism often shifts to meditation, particularly mindfulness,...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ulla Koenig – Week of July 10, 2023
With Recorded : July 10, 2023
This week's theme is "The Compassionate Heart". Karuna, usually translated as compassion, is our hearts' ability to relate with care towards ourselves, others and experience in general. Living in a complex world with imperfect...
Resting in Love, as Love
With Recorded : July 9, 2023
Consciousness itself is not disturbed by a busy mind. In practice, the ego takes this truth and says, “I will transcend mind.” But the “I” that experiences itself as separate from life cannot and...
Finding Forgiveness: Processing the Past to Open the Present
With Recorded : July 2, 2023
The Buddhist path is one of liberation through letting go. But when there’s been disappointment, betrayal, or harm, letting go can seem like a very tall order. Join us as we explore the spectrum of heart...
Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ayala Gill – Week of June 26, 2023
With Recorded : June 26, 2023
This week's topic is "Living in Sacredness". Meditation is more than a practice of being present. The way in which we are present determines whether we reinforce habits of separation, or re-weave the fabric...