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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nathan Glyde – Week of April 3, 2023

Nathan Glyde

Nathan Glyde

We’re fortunate that Nathan Glyde has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK. To find out more about Nathan, and to view his other contributions to Sangha Live, click here. Recordings will be posted by the end of the day of the live session.

 

This week’s topic is “Imagine That

 

Edgar Allan Poe wondered, “Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?” According to naive realism, we do not perceive things as they are, yet think we do. The Dharma exists to wake us from delimiting dreams, so we may live lives of profound awakening.

 

Assume You're Assuming

April 3, 2023

I Presume

April 4, 2023

All Consuming

April 5, 2023

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At the end of the guided practice Nathan shared a breath practice from the Thai Forest Tradition of Ajahn Lee. Click here to read more about it.

Don't Resume

April 6, 2023

Subsumed in Love

April 7, 2023

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