We often hear about Dana, or generosity, only when being asked for donations! Yet Buddha taught that “the practice of generosity is a foundation for happiness”. This session with Worldwide Insight guiding teacher Martin Aylward explores the depth and beauty of generosity, and how its practice can transform our own hearts and minds.
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Exploring dukkha.
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April 5, 2015 Worldwide Insight talk from Kittisaro: “Exploring Dukkha”. Guided meditation, Dharma talk and Q&A.
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Waking up to Love!
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October 13, 2019 What do you love? What’s your relationship to love? Do you love yourself? Do you love someone else? Do you love your job or your hobbies or your house or your friends or your community? Do you love the dharma or the truth or reality? What is Love? Beyond learning about what we love, what…
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This Is What We Are: Foam, Bubbles, Mirage, Banana Tree Trunks and Magical Shows
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January 22, 2023 In this session, we will explore the Buddha’s wise use of images in the Phena Sutta. We will see how these are representations of the deepest teachings of Insight Meditation and how they can be relevant for us today in our quest to free the mind and heart from constriction. There will be time to practice together guided by Pascal and time for questions and beginning of answers.
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Breath as the Subtle Energetic Bridge between Body, Heart/Mind: Re-wire, Re-connect and Renew
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September 7, 2025 If we change our view of breath, imagining and feeling it as a soft breeze, gentle wind or carrier of Citta (heart/mind) we open to the capacity to guide it anywhere we like to in the body. Imagining breath anywhere, we sense its effects: relaxing contraction around physical pain making it more bearable, softening the…
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How awareness frees: Vitaka Vicara Viveka
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January 21, 2018 Worldwide Insight Founding teacher Martin Aylward returns to lead his first class of the year. Martin looks at how different elements of attention can meet, explore and hold experience, allowing for insight, spaciousness and increasing freeness in the midst of experience.
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Visions of a free life
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July 16, 2017 Freedom is a central concern of all our lives, yet has many different manifestations, some of which run completely contrary to others. This class will explores the importance of social freedoms, inner freedom, personal and collective freedoms. We explore how different perspectives on free-ness shape how we practice; and how we understand life and our…
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The Out Breath: Unlocking Concentration
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June 16, 2024 Shodo Harada Roshi is known as a “teacher of teachers”, with masters from various lineages coming to sit with him in Japan. If you went to Harada’s monastery, the main meditation technique you’d learn involves slowing the out breath to last one minute. This drastically slows down your physiology, which in turn settles the mind.
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Integrity and Clarity: Foundations for Awakening
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March 30, 2025 Everything in Buddhist practice builds on ethics and morality. With this basis, meditation and insight unfold naturally. This talk will explore the connection between living a life of integrity and developing spiritual awakening
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