# Sangha Live > Join the world's largest online Buddhist sangha\. Free daily meditation, live dharma talks with renowned teachers, and a global community\. All levels welcome\. 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Through making these teachings alive and relevant to your lived experience as a practitioner, more and more ‘the’ path will become ‘your’ path\. We’ll study and explore together in a way which experiential and lively, and is aimed clearly at new understanding, liberating insight, and a deeper engagement with the spirit and potency of Buddha\-Dharma\. - [Heart Song: Qigong and Meditation for Fire and Summer](https://sangha.live/deep-dharma/heart-song-qigong-and-meditation-for-fire-and-summer/): Join Mimi Kuo\-Deemer for a month\-long journey into nurturing and liberating the song of your heart\. Through insightful discussions, guided meditations, contemplative practices, and Fire\-themed qigong, Mimi will help you cultivate a heart that meets life’s complexities with greater ease, openness, and resilience\. - [Qigong: \Nourishing Practices \for Spring](https://sangha.live/deep-dharma/qigong-nourishing-practices-for-spring/): A 4\-part online course exploring nourishing qigong practices that align us with our elemental constitution of Wood and its corresponding season of spring\. - [The Third Treasure: Awakening in Relationship](https://sangha.live/deep-dharma/the-third-treasure-awakening-in-relationship/): This month\-long course with award\-winning mediator, author, and teacher Diane Musho Hamilton explores Sangha – the Third Treasure – as a living laboratory for awakening and maturing\. - [The Wakeful Body: \Walking the Path of \Somatic Mindfulness](https://sangha.live/deep-dharma/the-wakeful-body-walking-the-path-of-somatic-mindfulness/): Many of us come to meditation with a great deal of enthusiasm\. This enthusiasm helps motivate our desire to learn, but it can lead to the problem of “overthinking” – the very reason you may have turned to meditation in the first place\. Fortunately, you already have the answer – your body\. In this 4\-week, intimate online course, Willa Blythe Baker brings her decades of training in the yogic lineage of Tibetan Buddhism to gradually walk you through a process of discovering your body’s inherent wisdom\. ## Dharma Library - [Daily Meditation Recordings, with Ulla Koenig \- Week of 29 June, 2026](https://sangha.live/dharma-library/daily-meditation-recordings-with-ulla-koenig-week-of-29-june-2026/): This week's theme is: Rejoicing in Integrity: Ethics Beyond Guilt and Shame \. In this session we explore how an ethical life can be guided by hiri and ottappa – healthy self\-respect and respect for others – rather than by guilt or shame\. We will also touch into uplifting emotions such as gratitude, admiration and inner integrity as sources of a joyful, sustainable ethical compass\. Our Dharma Library thrives through collective generosity\. Your donation helps sustain this offering for our entire community\. - [Becoming Content with Emptiness and Voidness](https://sangha.live/dharma-library/becoming-content-with-emptiness-and-voidness/): Shaila Catherine asks "Will nothing be enough?" as she explores how identification with our experience can create discontent with the basic fact that matter and mind is empty of self\. Mindfulness will not demolish ego; instead, we mindfully recognize\.\.\. - [Daily Meditation Recordings, with Nirmala Werner \- Week of 22 June, 2026](https://sangha.live/dharma-library/daily-meditation-recordings-with-nirmala-werner-week-of-22-june-2026/): This week's theme is: The Joy of Missing Out: Finding Happiness in Enoughness \. Stepping out of the pressure to keep up, we turn toward the simple joys of presence, gratitude, and generosity\. Together we explore how contentment and letting go can open the heart to a more quiet and sustainable happiness\. Our Dharma Library thrives through collective generosity\. Your donation helps sustain this offering for our entire community\. - [The Inquiring Mind](https://sangha.live/dharma-library/the-inquiring-mind/): The more we understand ourselves, the more we understand each other\. In this talk, we'll be discussing some foundational understandings that provide a framework of this inquiry\. It will include such topics as training our habits of attention, suffering as\.\.\. - [Daily Meditation Recordings, with Miles Kessler \- Week of 15 June, 2026](https://sangha.live/dharma-library/daily-meditation-recordings-with-miles-kessler-week-of-15-june-2026/): This week's theme is: The Seven Factors Of Awakening \. In this week of daily meditations, you will explore the Buddha's foundational teaching on the "Seven Factors of Awakening" \(bojjhaṅga\): mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration, and equanimity\. Together we will examine how these qualities arise in meditation practice, are gradually cultivated, and are the very factors that support awakening\. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of how the path of practice unfolds, and you will gain practical tools for cultivating greater balance, clarity, and insight\. "For one who is mindful, investigating phenomena, energy arises\. For one who is energetic, joy arises\.\.\." \- Samyutta Nikaya\. Our Dharma Library thrives through collective generosity\. Your donation helps sustain this offering for our entire community\. ## Free \& Live - [Sunday Sangha \- 26th July 2026](https://sangha.live/free_live/sunday-sangha-26th-july-2026/): \Drop the Caring, Find the Caring\ — Caring is natural \- but it can tighten into something anxious and depleting, a gripping that wears us down and, oddly, gets in the way of real care\. We'll look at the difference between over\-caring and genuine caring, and practice letting the grip fall away so a steadier, more sustainable warmth can arise on its own\.\
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"Carefree doesn't mean careless\. It is not that you don't care about others, not that you don't have compassion or are unfriendly\. Carefree is being really simple, from the inside\."\
\- Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Open Heart, Open Mind - [Sunday Sangha \- 12th July 2026](https://sangha.live/free_live/sunday-sangha-12th-july-2026/): \Monastic Practice, The Inner Way, and Contemporary Culture\ — Monasticism and the practice of the Inner Way are being transformed by contemporary culture\. What is the 'Way' today? Is there such a thing as a 'Natural\-Way\-of\-Being'? And what is 'Enlightenment'? In this talk, we will explore these questions, and how to approach a vision that includes enlightenment\. \
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- [Sunday Sangha \- 19th July 2026](https://sangha.live/free_live/sunday-sangha-19th-july-2026/): \The First Teaching: Radical Medicine for a Painful World\ — The July full moon marks Dhamma Day \(Āsāḷha Pūjā\), the anniversary of the Buddha's very first teaching, given to five friends in a deer park 2,614 years ago\. This one ancient talk is said to contain the entire path\. And it still asks something extraordinary of us: a complete reorientation of how we live\. We'll listen for the fierce compassion at the heart of that original message\-and explore how to actually take the medicine, right now, in the middle of everything\.\
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"Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation\."\
\- Venerable Kondañña, upon hearing the first teaching \(SN 56\.11\)\
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"It's not a middle way that is a compromise where you can cut out the hard bits and split the difference so you feel good about it\." \
\- Ajahn Pasanno\
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This talk will reference Saṃyutta Nikāya 56\.11, "Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Dhamma"\. Listen and read along to Sean reading the discourse here\. - [Daily Meditation 29 June – 3 July 2026](https://sangha.live/free_live/daily-meditation-29-june-3-july-2026/): Wake up with LIVE meditation sessions each Monday\-Friday morning, 7am\-8am GMT \(London\) / 8am\-9am CET \(Paris\) - [Day of Practice with Wiebke Pausch \- July 18 2026](https://sangha.live/free_live/day-of-practice-with-wiebke-pausch-july-18-2026/): This practice day offers a welcoming, supportive environment to explore together Radical Rest – an inspiring path of non\-striving and self\-compassion\. It is a warm invitation to step out of the pressure to perform, allowing your nervous system to fully unwind, dissolve accumulated tension and soften into the ease of being\. ## Short Courses - [Suppleness and Softness: Meditation and Qigong for a Fluid New Year](https://sangha.live/short-course/suppleness-and-softness-meditation-and-qigong-for-a-fluid-new-year/): Through complementary meditation and qigong practices, we attune to how suppleness and softness can help us free our mind, heart and body\. - [Surrender: \
Your Dharma or Your Life](https://sangha.live/short-course/surrender-your-dharma-or-your-life/): The practice of surrender can facilitate the renunciation of the ego's need for control, opening up a sense of inner spaciousness and stillness\. By surrendering to the vast, loving, and easy embrace of awareness, we can release our grip and find peace in the present moment\. - [Beyond Anxiety: An Unshakeable Confidence](https://sangha.live/short-course/beyond-anxiety-an-unshakeable-confidence/): Do you find yourself caught up in fear and anxiety? Anxiety is one of the afflictions of our age\. Lost in what could possibly happen, we lose touch with what is right now, and with how to meet situations simply and effectively\. - [Learning from the Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh](https://sangha.live/short-course/learning-from-the-wisdom-of-thich-nhat-hanh/): Learn about the incredible life of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh; a global spiritual leader, poet, and peace activist, revered around the world for his teachings on mindfulness, universal ethics, and peace\. - [Restlessness As Path: Embracing Our Anxiety](https://sangha.live/short-course/restlessness-as-path-embracing-our-anxiety/): During times of immense stress, we often feel alone and disconnected, rummaging through our hearts and minds for a solution\. Join Ty to learn concrete methods for working with the anxieties that modern life and values stimulate\. ## Teachers - [Martin Aylward](https://sangha.live/teachers/martin-aylward-bio/) - [Tenku Ruff Osho](https://sangha.live/teachers/tenku-ruff/) - [Caverly Morgan](https://sangha.live/teachers/caverly-morgan-bio/) - [Heidi Bourne](https://sangha.live/teachers/heidi-bourne/) - [Milo North Burn](https://sangha.live/teachers/milo-north-burn-bio/) ## Categories - [Sunday Sangha Recording](https://sangha.live/category/sunday-sangha-recording/) - [Daily Meditation Recording](https://sangha.live/category/daily-meditation-recording/) - [Uncategorized](https://sangha.live/category/uncategorized/) - [Day of Practice](https://sangha.live/category/day-of-practice/) - [On\-Demand Course](https://sangha.live/category/on-demand-course/) ## Tags - [wisdom](https://sangha.live/tag/wisdom/) - [liberation](https://sangha.live/tag/liberation/) - [dharma practice](https://sangha.live/tag/dharma-practice/) - [loving\-kindness](https://sangha.live/tag/loving-kindness/) - [suffering](https://sangha.live/tag/suffering/) ## Topic - [Mindfulness](https://sangha.live/topic/mindfulness/) - [Liberation](https://sangha.live/topic/liberation/) - [Embodiment](https://sangha.live/topic/embodiment/) - [Self\-Love](https://sangha.live/topic/self-love/) - [Compassion](https://sangha.live/topic/compassion/) ## Optional - [Sitemap index](https://sangha.live/sitemap_index.xml)