With
Leela Sarti
Recorded : November 10, 2024
How can we live from the ground of presence, being ourselves in peace with others, while doing what needs to be done? This Sunday we’ll explore what is essential for living in the midst...
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With
Ayala Gill
Recorded : November 4, 2024
This week's theme is:
Love's Fullness Mindfulness is a practice of remaining present, open and loving to the deepest truth of this moment as it arises and dissolves. It invites us into an intimate,...
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With
Mimi Kuo-Deemer
Recorded : November 3, 2024
Our heart’s experiences do not only affect our mental and emotional states. They also impact bodily experience, creating tension, tightness, spaciousness or ease. Likewise, our bodily experiences do not only generate physical sensations, but...
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With
Miles Kessler
Recorded : October 28, 2024
We're grateful to have Miles Kessler leading our Daily Meditation sessions this week. May they support and enrich your practice.
This week's theme is: Practicing Insight In Daily Life
The practice of mindfulness meditation automatically triggers...
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With
Stephen Fulder
Recorded : October 27, 2024
When external circumstances are difficult and challenging we tend to get swept away by them. But instead, they can be a wake-up call. We turn to the dharma to help us meet the challenges...
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With
Nirmala Werner
Recorded : October 21, 2024
This week's theme:
The Joy of Simplicity
Simplicity, joy and deep rest are profound qualities which support our spiritual journey. During this week we will explore the simple depth of Buddhist practice and listen to...
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With
Leslie Booker
Recorded : October 20, 2024
The precepts are often shared on the first night of retreat to kind of go into a social contract of how we’re going to care for one another on retreat, while holding the nobility...
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : October 14, 2024
This week's topic is "Speaking with Wisdom".
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With
Vince Cullen
Recorded : October 13, 2024
The extremes of addiction to sense pleasure and addiction to self-mortification are not the path to happiness. The spectrum of human sensuality spans from pleasure to pain, pleasant to unpleasant, from hedonic excesses to...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : October 7, 2024
This week's topic is "Emptiness and Fullness, the Dharma of Everyday Life"
Together we'll embrace a week of practicing together, amidst whatever arises.
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With
Leigh Brasington
Recorded : October 6, 2024
Anicca, usually translated as “Impermanence” or “Inconstancy,” is one of the three characteristics of all worldly experience. It’s the one of those characteristics we can usually get some understanding of right away. But the...
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With
Yahel Avigur
Recorded : September 30, 2024
This week's topic is "Samadhi: A Path of Reliable Joy". One of the central lines in the teachings of the Buddha, the practice of Samadhi is the skill of harmonized, gathered presence. It is...
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With
David Cabrera
Recorded : September 29, 2024
From pure emptiness the wondrous appears… In the session we will explore different somatic approaches to cultivate a sense of calm and ease. An invitation into insight meditation and letting go into a natural...
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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : September 23, 2024
This week's topic is "Fluidly, fully, freely". This week will explore facets of our ever-changing experience, and how the river of life can remind us to meet everything more fluidly, and thus to live...
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With
Nolitha Tsengiwe
Recorded : September 22, 2024
Reflection on suffering and the ending of suffering, with focus on second Noble Truth.
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With
Nathan Glyde
Recorded : September 16, 2024
This week's topic is "That Changes Everything". The Buddha instructed us to "notice how all conditioned things change". How we understand this instruction changes depending on which words we emphasise. If we emphasise 'change'...
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With
Tuere Sala
Recorded : September 15, 2024
Emptiness can be a loaded word for lay practitioners. It can bring up a sense of isolation and annihilation. The dharma of emptiness, however, is a fundamental part of practice. Even in the most...
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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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