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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of May 2, 2022

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: Opportunities for Deepening Compassion and Wisdom

 

Dharma teachings and practices invite us to use our difficulties and problems to awaken our hearts. Rather than seeing the unwanted aspects of life as obstacles, we can relate to them as the raw material necessary for awakening genuine wisdom and compassion.
The cultivation of wisdom and compassion for ourselves leads naturally to compassion for others. True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

The preciousness of this human life

May 2, 2022

All appearances arise and pass

May 3, 2022

Everything leans

May 4, 2022

Beyond a narrow sense of self

May 5, 2022

Cultivating kinship with all things

May 6, 2022

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