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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of June 3, 2024

Zohar Lavie

Zohar Lavie

We’re fortunate that Zohar Lavie has generously offered to lead our daily meditation sessions this week. To find out more about Zohar, and to view her 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 “Letting Go, Cultivating Deep Peace”

 

The Buddha’s teachings offer a profoundly pragmatic, compassionate and wise response to the human condition. During this week we will explore the art of pausing, looking deeply into our own lived experience and letting go of clinging, as foundations for developing a peaceful heart. This supports the possibilities for both our own well-being, as well as peace in the external world.

Letting Go into this Moment

June 3, 2024

Looking Deeply

June 4, 2024

Releasing Clinging

June 5, 2024

Opening Beyond Preference

June 6, 2024

Relaxing Identification, Finding Peace

June 7, 2024

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