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Sunday Sangha – 27th July 2025

This session is led by Kim Allen.

Start Time: 11 am PDT (LA) / 2 pm EDT (NY) / 7 pm BST (London) / 8 pm CEST (Paris). 90-minute live session.

This week’s theme: Wisdom and Heart Together

The connection between wisdom (paññā) and the heart qualities, such as goodwill (mettā) and compassion (karunā), can be a delightful discovery in Buddhist practice. The clear, nonjudgmental awareness of wisdom can feel like warmth, inclusion, and safety when fully received. In turn, the truly open heart is free of the distortions of ill will and other limiting mindstates, and hence can see experience clearly.

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Kim Allen

Kim Allen has been practicing Insight meditation since 2003, and has trained intensively in the U.S. and Asia with cumulative years of silent retreat. She offers retreats, sutta study, and experiential Dharma engagement, and is a graduate of Insight Retreat Center’s 4-year teacher training with Gil Fronsdal and Andrea Fella. As teacher and author, Kim aims to bring classical Dharma to a modern context and to encourage lay practitioners in fully living a life of Dharma. Her education includes a PhD in physics and a master’s degree in environmental sustainability, and her website is http://www.uncontrived.org.

View Recordings of Past Sunday Sangha Sessions

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On Teachings and Teachers

With Martin Aylward Recorded : March 17, 2018

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Ralph Steele

The noble jewel of Right Effort

With Ralph Steele Recorded : March 11, 2018

Right Effort is a jewel within a jewel. We investigate the Four Right Exertions that fuel Right Effort and the Hindrances that attempt to derail our intention. You will gain insight into why the...

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Dave Smith

This Dharma I Have Reached

With Dave Smith Recorded : March 4, 2018

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James Baraz

Insight and practices for difficult times

With James Baraz Recorded : February 4, 2018

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Love for the world

With Martin Aylward Recorded : December 17, 2017

In our last class of 2017, our guiding teacher Martin offers reflections on life, love and liberation, looking particularly at some of the challenging events and elements of worldly life, and pointing towards a...

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