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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Milla Gregor – Week of June 20, 2022

Milla Gregor

We’re fortunate that Milla Gregor has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK. To find out more about Milla, and to view her other contributions to Sangha Live, click here.

 

Recordings are posted 24 – 36 hours after the live session runs.

 

This week’s topic is Skills for Inner and Outer Transformation.

 

Dharma practice gives us great tools for inner and interpersonal change. It’s empowering to explore how these can also be useful for social and environmental transformation. We will tour such qualities, including equanimity (upekkha), non-self (anatta), and sukha (yes, pleasure!). Together, we will draw on both traditional and more contemporary voices to show how your skills as a practitioner could be vital to the work of changing the world.

Equanimity not apathy, irresolvable paradox and starfish

June 20, 2022

Clear seeing, appropriate response and three types of suffering

June 21, 2022

Pleasure activism

June 22, 2022

Interconnectedness, inner and outer systems and seeing the invisible

June 23, 2022

Interconnectedness, psychedelic reason and seeing against the stream

June 24, 2022

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