Working with the first stage of loving-kindness.

Death is Before Me Today

Recorded : November 13, 2022

During this Sunday Sangha we will explore the peace of emptiness, the malleability of time and the loving care of oneself and all life.

Daily Meditation Recordings, with Zohar Lavie – Week of September 5, 2022

This week’s topic is “Awakening into Experience Here and Now”. “You shouldn’t chase after the past
or place expectations on the future.
What is past
is left behind.
The future
is as yet unreached.
Whatever quality is present
you clearly see right there,
right there.
Not taken in,
unshaken,
that’s how you develop the heart.” (MN 131)

The essence of the Buddha’s teachings lies in these words. Unshakability and freedom are at the heart of awakening, they are what we cultivate in our practice. This week we will practice turning to our experience in ways that wake us up, right here and now.

Daily Meditation Recordings, with Miles Kessler – Week of 20 October, 2025

This week, we’re delighted to have Miles Kessler guiding our Daily Meditation sessions. May they enrich your practice.

This week’s theme is: Meditation And The Dark Night Of The Soul

The “Dark Night Of The Soul” is nothing less than an ego death, and rebirth process that everyone goes through from time to time in life. As it happens, the “Dark Night Of The Soul” is also beautifully “coded” into insight meditation practices through a series of advanced stages know as the “Dukkha Nanas”. The “Dark Night” stages are awaiting everyone who is walking the path of meditative insight.
In this week of Daily Meditations with Sangha Live, you are invited to join in a teaching of “Meditation And The Dark Night Of The Soul.” Throughout this week, you will explore how the “Dark Night Of The Soul” process unfolds in the stages of insight meditation. And more importantly, how the insights of these stages inform us in our lives.

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The role of the intoxicants (asavas) in driving suffering and allowing release.

Recorded : November 1, 2015

Worldwide Insight talk from Greg Kramer: “The Role of the Intoxicants (Asavas) in Driving Suffering and Allowing Release”. Guided meditation, Dharma talk and Q&A.

You Are NOT Doomed: Breaking & Replacing Old Patterns

Recorded : March 26, 2023

You may have noticed that sometimes breaking old patterns is hard to do! But thanks to surviving ancient Buddhist teachings, we are NOT doomed to being stuck in the rut of the same old painful behavioral and cognitive patterns, and we can create new helpful patterns. This talk explores the nature of the conditioned mind…

The Wheel of Life

Recorded : April 11, 2021

Understanding the mental states that we cycle through moment to moment. Links referred to during the session: The Wheel of Life Five Basic Needs of the Heart meditation