With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : May 9, 2022
This week's topic is Disentangle the Net of Needs. We all have needs. Existential needs, needs for safety, connection, spirituality and much more. Our attitude towards needs, what strategies we choose to meet them...
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : June 13, 2022
This week's topic is Healing Shame and Guilt. Psychologists describe shame as soul-eating emotion. Shame and guilt prevent us from developing trusting connections with others and a healthy sense of appreciation for ourselves. The...
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : July 11, 2022
This week's topic is Mindfulness in Daily Life. Trying to practice mindfulness in the busyness of our daily lives can leave us confused or frustrated. We know the potential benefits of such a practice,...
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : September 12, 2022
This week's topic is (Be)Come As You Are. Our driven-ness, our ruminating thoughts, and our feelings of shame, guilt, and anxiety never allow us to simply 'be'. They evolve around a sense of identity...
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : October 17, 2022
This week's topic is "A Peaceful Mind". Thoughts are our continuous companions. While some are harmless, others have a deep impact on us: not only do they shape perceptions, but they also influence our...
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Ulla Koenig
Recorded : November 14, 2022
This week's topic is Kindle the Flame. Metta practice, which nourishes the heart’s capacity for friendliness, brings many benefits. It softens our relationship to ourselves, nourishes us with a sense of connection, puts challenges...
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : December 4, 2022
Patience can be one of those qualities which we think of as being theoretically helpful but feel little motivation to actually cultivate and strengthen. So much emphasis in our busy world of achieving goals...
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : January 16, 2023
This week's theme is "Change, Loss and Dying: Meeting the Common Denominator". When we come in touch with the fragility of our existence, it is only natural that fear or sadness might well up....
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : February 27, 2023
This week's theme is "Samadhi - Doors of Harmony". The Buddha encouraged us to nourish, calm, gladden and liberate our heart-mind (citta). To know ways to inner harmony, stillness and contentment independently of outer...
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : May 8, 2023
This week's theme is "Shedding Light on Darkness". In the Buddhist tradition, we find three psycho-physical dynamics which bring together suffering, stress and dissatisfaction. Beside aggression and wanting, the root of moha, often translated...
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : July 10, 2023
This week's theme is "The Compassionate Heart". Karuna, usually translated as compassion, is our hearts' ability to relate with care towards ourselves, others and experience in general. Living in a complex world with imperfect...
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With
Ulla Koenig
Recorded : September 18, 2023
This week's theme is "Understanding Suffering". Dukkha, often translated as suffering, is a central concept in the Buddha's teachings. This has led some to view Buddhism as adopting a negative outlook on life. But...
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