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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With
Martin Aylward
Recorded : May 20, 2024
This week's topic is "Wesak Week: Waking up Together".This is the week of the May full moon, known as Wesak, when Buddha’s awakening is celebrated. So, it is our most auspicious time to practice!...
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With
Bart van Melik
Recorded : May 19, 2024
The Buddha discovered that craving is the cause by which stress comes into play. Letting go of this constant pursuing of our desires is possible. Befriending this human and natural craving needs the power...
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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
Milla Gregor
Recorded : April 22, 2024
This week's theme is "Breath, Body, Connection and Reflection". Breath, body and connection are areas of practice that come up again and again in Buddhist teaching. We’ll explore them in different combinations, and reflect...
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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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