Befriending your body.

Simplicity: The Heart of the Dharma

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. Pursuing conventional goals feels less meaningful or satisfying than finding ease and straightforwardness in our approach to life. Simplicity cuts across…

Can love reveal ultimate reality?

Recorded : December 19, 2021

We know the cost to the reality of life through deprivation of love.

Science has eliminated love from its analysis of reality.

We cannot know ultimate reality though highlighting the mind and dismissing the heart or vice-versa.

The Buddha made frequent reference to metta with its three-fold application of deep love, kindness or friendship.

This talk will explore the relationship of love to ultimate reality.

Awakening Joy: Practice as a Path of Happiness

Recorded : January 13, 2019

Joy is both a Factor of Enlightenment and one of the four Divine Abodes. Today, as we are bombarded with news that heightens our fear and sadness about the world, more than ever it’s vital to understand the importance of joy as a central aspect of spiritual practice. We need to remember how to stay…

I Call on My Inherent Wellbeing

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 the depth and sacredness of our shared humanity, goodness and nobility.

Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nathan Glyde – Week of June 28, 2021

This week’s theme is: The Unbound Heart

Teachings of liberation expand our range of possibilities. They encourage us to discover a broader capacity of what we can contact, sense, and do. The teachings of the pāramīs are a key part of this journey. They act like a map and compass for the heart’s wish to be free of habitual limitations, to be a heart unbound. This week we’ll take a deeper dive into the illimitable qualities of the heart.

Embodied Intentionality

Recorded : July 15, 2018

This session is an exploration of the ‘truths’ that might lead to conviction, to directed karma, to mindfulness as remembering-to-remember, and to the path to joy & beyond.