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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of October 18, 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 Abundant Middle-Way.

 

The Buddha in his last steps of awakening turned away from austerities and the practiced hardships he had endured. He did not turn back to the indulgences of his youth, but uncovered a kind and sensitive middle-way between a sense of self-importance and self-negation. The awakened one then invited others to a way of living between common extremes of views, states, and habitual actions.

 

This week we will walk the path of peace supporting the deep well-being and boundless heart of the middle-way.

 

Explorations of the middle way; possibilities beyond extremes

October 18, 2021

Balanced effort - cultivation of the wholesome

October 19, 2021

Beyond scarcity and abundance; opening to what is good enough

October 20, 2021

Beyond the habits of the mind; wellbeing, gratitude and appreciation

October 21, 2021

This one wild and precious life; intention and the shaping of experience

October 22, 2021

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