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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of July 5, 2021

Zohar Lavie

Zohar Lavie

We’re fortunate that Zohar Lavie has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions for Europe and the UK. To find out more about Zohar, 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 theme is: The Power of Compassion.

 

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. – Dalai Lama

 

During this week we will explore how compassion informs and supports meditation practice and the deepening of understanding and wisdom. We will practice and inquire into different aspects of this powerful attitude and intention and taste for ourselves the impact it has on ourselves and the world.

 

Understanding compassion

July 5, 2021

Why does self-compassion matter?

July 6, 2021

Compassion as a support for wellbeing and happiness

July 7, 2021

Compassion and the sense of self; self enhancing or self liberating?

July 8, 2021

Boundless, immeasurable compassion

July 9, 2021

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