Drawing on Thich Nhat Hanh’s teaching on the different layers of consciousness, we will explore the nature of the seeds that sleep in the depths of our mind. We can each learn to be skillful gardeners of our own and others’ minds, watering the wholesome seeds and skillfully caring for the unwholesome ones. As we deepen in presence and familiarity with our minds, we can also begin to identify and heal larger blocks of suffering that lie under the surface, causing harm to ourselves and others. Kaira Jewel will share powerful examples of how we can begin to heal blocks of intergenerational suffering in the collective consciousness as well.
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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Martin Aylward – Week of 18 December, 2023
This week’s topic is “In the Midst of it All”. Sanity, serenity and sangha in the silly season.
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Freedom through focusing in.
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September 25, 2016 Before this live session, Nina wrote: “I want to share a mindfulness technique this Sunday that’s particularly alive in my life right now. As a new mother I’ve experienced an increase in planning, anticipating, worrying, and fear. Before the birth of my daughter a few months ago I read a book by Karen Maezen Miller,…
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Mindfulness and the Addiction Economy
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June 1, 2025 Our devices have become weapons of mass distraction, we have lost the attention economy and now we are living in the addiction economy. Everyone is addicted, we all know it, few will admit it, yet we all seem to accept it. Turning inward and taking an honest look at our dissatisfaction and facing what fuels…
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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Jaya Rudgard – Week of February 8, 2021
This week’s topic is “Living Slowly”.
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Noble Right View
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September 22, 2019 In this session you will gain insight into understanding what makes the Buddhist practice unique. You’ll receive guidance in relation to knowing when you are not on the path of awakening, and gain a deeper appreciation of the skills presented by the Buddha.
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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Shireen Jilla – Week of 04 May, 2026
This week’s theme is: Why Are We Here?
To gain relief from mental or physical suffering, seeking enlightenment, sangha? As we practice with our teachers, insight can flood our hearts. Still we can feel untethered in daily life. We will explore what part our expectations, inspirations and intentions play. And what actually opens us to the naturalness of meeting this moment with simple, direct wisdom: the ordinarily extraordinary.
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Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of May 1, 2023
This week’s topic is “A Path of Wisdom and Compassion”. Practicing Insight Meditation supports an understanding of how wellbeing is nourished, and how ill-being is conditioned. Attending to our own heart and mind with compassion and wisdom opens possibilities of freedom. Over this week of practice, we’ll develop wisdom and compassion, exploring creative responses to habits that appear to obscure these beautiful qualities.
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Meditation in nature as a path of wakening.
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March 27, 2016 Mark explores how mindfulness practice in the natural world can help bring peace, insight, compassion and freedom.
