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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Jaya Rudgard – Week of 07 April, 2025

Jaya Rudgard

We are delighted to have Jaya Rudgard leading our Daily Meditation sessions this week. May they bring nourishment to your practice.

This week’s theme is: Dharma Here and Now: The Art of Being Present

As meditators we aspire to being awake to life. We know that this life with its gifts, challenges and opportunities, only ever happens NOW, yet this NOW often eludes us. This week we’ll investigate what helps and hinders our fully inhabiting the moments of our day, and what possibilities might emerge when we do so.

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An auspicious day

April 7, 2025

Thoughts on thoughts

April 8, 2025

Neither tarrying nor hurrying

April 9, 2025

'It's better than you think' - tuning into contentment

April 10, 2025

Present phenomena are "like this"

April 11, 2025

Discussion

3 thoughts on “Daily Meditation Recordings, with Jaya Rudgard – Week of 07 April, 2025”

  1. Hi Jaya
    Loved last week’s meditations and looking forward to next week 🙂
    Is there another recording which contains the verse you read in Pali please? I can only see the 4 recordings.
    Thanks
    Sue

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