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Sunday Sangha – 6th September 2026

Juha Penttilä

This session is led by Juha Penttilä.

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

Join our 1.5-hour session on Sunday, including a guided meditation, rich dharma teaching and interactive Q&A. Freely offered on a donation/dana basis.

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Juha Penttilä

Juha Penttilä

Juha Penttilä has been practicing meditation since 2002. He has spent extended periods of time on retreats and in monasteries in Asia and Europe and is one of the founding members of Nirodha, the Finnish Insight Meditation practice community. Click here to learn more about Juha Penttilä.

View Recordings of Past Sunday Sangha Sessions

David Cabrera

A Return To Naturalness

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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Tuere Sala

The Supramundane Nature of Emptiness

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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Simplicity: The Heart of the Dharma

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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Pamela Weiss

True Refuge

With Pamela Weiss Recorded : July 7, 2024

This talk will explore the Three Refuges — Buddha, Dharma and Sangha — as sources of true refuge in difficult times. The teaching of the Refuges is found within all schools of Buddhism and...

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Lisa Ernst

Exploring Karma, Choice and the Mind

With Lisa Ernst Recorded : June 30, 2024

Karma is action in Buddhism, driven by intention. With practice we cultivate the ability to choose our response and our actions, internally and externally. We might think if our intentions are good our actions...

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Daigan Gaither

Bodhisattva Practice

With Daigan Gaither Recorded : June 23, 2024

Using the hagiography of the Bodhisattvas of Compassion, Wisdom, and Activity, let’s explore how to bring those ideals into our everyday life off the cushion. What can these perfections of compassion, wisdom and activity...

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Toby Sola

The Out Breath: Unlocking Concentration

With Toby Sola Recorded : 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...

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