Is it possible to live and love freely amidst the greed, aggression and dysfunction of the world?
Amidst so much suffering, can you nourish joy, lightness and laughter?
When it feels as if you’re drowning, might it be that you are floating in an ocean of blessings?
In times of political polarisation and dysfunction, broken societal modelling, a global pandemic and a dystopic ecological prognosis, we need to build true resilience. We need practices to brighten the mind, to enrich the heart, to understand and care for one another, to meet life unfiltered and unafraid.
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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of 19 May, 2025
We’re honored to have Martin Aylward offering our Daily Meditation sessions this week. We hope they are nourishing for your practice. This week’s theme is: Slow Down, Open Up: Ways Into Being Where You Already Are
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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nathan Glyde – Week of April 3, 2023
This week’s topic is “Imagine That”. Edgar Allan Poe wondered, “Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?” According to naive realism, we do not perceive things as they are, yet think we do. The Dharma exists to wake us from delimiting dreams, so we may live lives of profound awakening.
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This is, because that is
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October 29, 2017 “This is, because that is. This is not, because that is not. This comes to be, because that comes to be. This ceases to be, because that ceases to be.” – The Buddha When conditions are sufficient things manifest. But if there aren’t enough conditions, things cannot yet manifest. How can we skilfully live in…
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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of 05 January, 2026
This week’s theme is: Love and Let Go: The Dharma of Every Moment
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Mindfulness and the Four Noble Truths
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July 16, 2023 Across all Buddhist lineages and traditions, the four noble truths hold the utmost importance. They are the Dharma’s most fundamental teaching. In modern society, the focus of Buddhism often shifts to meditation, particularly mindfulness, as the practice continues to be integrated into contemporary culture. How can we bring the teachings of the four noble truths…
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Is there compassion for the self? Go deep. Is compassion the end of self?
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May 23, 2021 The Dharma flies with two wings – compassion and wisdom. Compassion emerges from a liberated wisdom. That happens when constructs in the mind lose their significance. The emptiness of self and the emptiness of dependency on feeling tones take priority. This talk also explores the contraction of compassion into self interest. The liberation of compassion…
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Relationship to time.
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October 25, 2015 Worldwide Insight talk from Christopher Titmuss: “Relationship to Time”. Guided meditation, Dharma talk and Q&A.
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Exploration of the four noble truths.
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July 19, 2015 Worldwide Insight talk from Phillip Moffit: “Exploration of the Four Noble Truths”. Guided meditation, Dharma talk and Q&A.
