With
Mimi Kuo-Deemer
Recorded : November 3, 2024
Our heart’s experiences do not only affect our mental and emotional states. They also impact bodily experience, creating tension, tightness, spaciousness or ease. Likewise, our bodily experiences do not only generate physical sensations, but...
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With
Stephen Fulder
Recorded : October 27, 2024
When external circumstances are difficult and challenging we tend to get swept away by them. But instead, they can be a wake-up call. We turn to the dharma to help us meet the challenges...
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With
Leslie Booker
Recorded : October 20, 2024
The precepts are often shared on the first night of retreat to kind of go into a social contract of how we’re going to care for one another on retreat, while holding the nobility...
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With
Vince Cullen
Recorded : October 13, 2024
The extremes of addiction to sense pleasure and addiction to self-mortification are not the path to happiness. The spectrum of human sensuality spans from pleasure to pain, pleasant to unpleasant, from hedonic excesses to...
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With
Leigh Brasington
Recorded : October 6, 2024
Anicca, usually translated as “Impermanence” or “Inconstancy,” is one of the three characteristics of all worldly experience. It’s the one of those characteristics we can usually get some understanding of right away. But the...
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With
David Cabrera
Recorded : September 29, 2024
From pure emptiness the wondrous appears… In the session we will explore different somatic approaches to cultivate a sense of calm and ease. An invitation into insight meditation and letting go into a natural...
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With
Nolitha Tsengiwe
Recorded : September 22, 2024
Reflection on suffering and the ending of suffering, with focus on second Noble Truth.
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With
Tuere Sala
Recorded : September 15, 2024
Emptiness can be a loaded word for lay practitioners. It can bring up a sense of isolation and annihilation. The dharma of emptiness, however, is a fundamental part of practice. Even in the most...
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With
Drs Larry Ward and Peggy Rowe Ward
Recorded : September 8, 2024
The harvest is a beautiful and important part of life each year. A time when our good work bears fruit and people are fed. A time of thanksgiving and prayers. How do we participate...
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With
Willa Blythe Baker
Recorded : September 1, 2024
We live in challenging times. Biologists speak of micro-systems where species sequester during times of crisis. They are called refugia. In times of uncertainty and fear, we too need refugia, places of spiritual safety...
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With
Deborah Eden Tull
Recorded : July 28, 2024
Join us for an experiential practice and embodied inquiry into speaking from the heart and engaging in courageous conversations. Our challenges are gateways to relational presence. By bringing compassionate awareness to habits of mind...
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With
Kim Allen
Recorded : July 21, 2024
Simplicity underlies Dharma practice. It’s common that when people begin to meditate, even if they have a full life with a job and family, they begin to realize that simplicity is a deep value....
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