Sunday Session with Gregory Kramer

Our Struggles Are the Path

Recorded : December 15, 2024

This session will explore how our struggles can become stepping stones on our path to growth. By learning to meet difficulties with openness and compassion, we can transform obstacles into opportunities. The session will draw upon Buddhist teachings and include guided meditation, a dharma talk, and some time for Q&A. Participants are encouraged to bring…

Let’s Talk about Meditation

Recorded : November 22, 2019

This class is an opportunity to explore our meditation practice, on and off the cushions. Meditation can be everything we do. It’s up to us whether we have a life of meditation or a life of daydreaming. Meditation will lead to freedom of your mind and daydreaming will lead to the enslavement of the mind….

Practice and Prejudice: Waking up to our reality blinkers

Recorded : January 6, 2019

Martin writes: “Do you remember that Youtube video ‘Awareness test’ from a few years ago, where you’re asked to pay attention to one thing (passes made by the team in white) and you end up completely missing something else? (check it out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4 – it only takes 30 seconds) We perceive reality in accordance with…

Exploration of the four noble truths.

Recorded : July 19, 2015

Worldwide Insight talk from Phillip Moffit: “Exploration of the Four Noble Truths”. Guided meditation, Dharma talk and Q&A.

Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of 4 March, 2024

This week’s topic is “Wide and Deep: an Integrated Practice in Meditation and in Life”. This week at Sangha live, the morning meditations with Martin will draw each day on elements of dharma practice and understanding that can be both cultivated in meditation, and applied in daily activity. We’ll encourage a steady participation in the mornings through the week, and reflect on using the daily themes to explore our habits, beliefs and reactions throughout each day.

Natural awareness: practicing in daily life.

Recorded : July 10, 2016

Meditation is often viewed as something restricted to a certain posture or time of day. For most of us, the majority of our life will not be on retreat or even spent in a formal sitting posture. If we want to make best use of our daily life, it’s important to know that being aware…