Podcasts by Gaia House: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Gaia House is a meditation retreat centre offering silent meditation retreats in the Buddhist tradition. We warmly welcome people of every age, ethnicity, cultural heritage and religious background, socio-economic group, sexual orientation and gender identity, and we are actively working to investigate and remove barriers to inclusion. Join us in to explore the teachings of the Buddha, guided by experienced Dharma teachers from all over the world.
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Nathan Glyde: Moment of Truths from 2023-10-28T17:48:04
(Gaia House) Is there one truth or many, or many views of it? How do cognitive biases bias the news? And how should we read our lives and the lives of others? And how can we find lasting happiness,...
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Zohar Lavie: The Sister Selā Discourse from 2022-04-10T11:10:52
(Gaia House) This session starts with a guided meditation (30 mins). Followed by a reflection on the Sister Sela sutta. The latter part is a questions and response session. For privacy, the questio...
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Nathan Glyde: Bodhisattva Perspective from 2022-04-03T10:58:12
(Gaia House) How does our concept of for whom we're practising shape our practice? Including our energy and enthusiasm, what we might do in the practice, and more…
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Laura Bridgman: Closing Session Pt 2 from 2022-03-21T14:30
(Gaia House) Integrating Dharma practice into our life. (This recording also includes Alan Lewis)
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Alan Lewis: Closing Session - Pt 1 from 2022-03-21T09:30
(Gaia House) Teachings - awareness says ‘yes’ to everything. Silent Meditation.
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Alan Lewis: Guided Early Morning Meditation from 2022-03-21T07:30
(Gaia House) Allowing all experiences to pass through us.
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Alan Lewis: Afternoon Pt 2 - Guided Metta Meditation from 2022-03-20T16:30
(Gaia House) Labelling experiences as significant and insignificant. Paying attention to what seems insignificant, finding nourishment in unlikely places.
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Laura Bridgman: Afternoon Pt 1 - The Qualities of Awareness Itself from 2022-03-20T14:30
(Gaia House) Noticing what we already know about our learnt experience, and how our willingness to go beyond that can allow for that experience to go deeper and reveal more of itself.
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Alan Lewis: Morning Pt 1 from 2022-03-20T09:30
(Gaia House) Lightly Guided Meditation on receptive listening. Teachings – Practicing with two questions - do I want anything&do I want to get rid of anything ?
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Laura Bridgman: Afternoon Pt 2 from 2022-03-19T15:30
(Gaia House) Lightly Guided Meditation - choosing what anchors you into the present moment. Teachings – Seeing and Looking, Listening and Hearing: investigating the difference between these way...
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Alan Lewis: Afternoon Pt 1 – Noticing the Space Within Which Things Arise from 2022-03-19T14:30
(Gaia House) Teachings on how we relate to spaciousness and capacity.
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Alan Lewis: Morning Pt 2 – Being Worthy of Love from 2022-03-19T11:30
(Gaia House) Teachings - meeting our experience with honesty and inquiry, letting our experience be painful. This recording also includes a short teaching on 'walking with awareness' (walking me...
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Laura Bridgman: Morning Pt 1 – Reflections - Meeting the Inner Activities of Self from 2022-03-19T09:30
(Gaia House) Lightly guided meditation. Teachings on and how inner activity can lose its grip on us, changing our perceptions and leading to less suffering.
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Alan Lewis: Early Morning - Guided Meditation from 2022-03-19T07:30
(Gaia House) Using breath as an anchoring point.
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Alan Lewis: Evening - Posture, Energy, Sleepiness, Silent Sit. from 2022-03-18T19:30
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Laura Bridgman: Afternoon Pt 3 - Reflections on Awareness and Feeling from 2022-03-18T16:30
(Gaia House) This recording also includes Alan Lewis.
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Alan Lewis: Afternoon Pt 2 - Guided Meditation and Teachings from 2022-03-18T15:30
(Gaia House) Noticing the flow and change of experience.
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Alan Lewis: Morning Pt 2 - Working with the Churning Mind from 2022-03-18T11:30
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Laura Bridgman: Morning Pt 1 – Guided Meditation from 2022-03-18T09:30
(Gaia House) Opening to and allowing experience, noticing how thinking feels.
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Zohar Lavie: Transformational Attitudes from 2022-03-13T16:43:36
(Gaia House) Exploring metta, friendliness; karuna, compassion; and other transformative ways of relating to ourselves and the world. Guided meditation, Dharma reflection, in the Online Dharma hall...
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Nathan Glyde: Connecting Into Interconnection from 2022-03-12T19:15:56
(Gaia House) Can we live in a sense of interconnection: where meaningfulness has meaning; and sensitivity takes priority? And can we be willing to live from there? Where the necessary renunciations...
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Nathan Glyde: Wise Acceptance and Wise Non-acceptance from 2022-03-05T19:15:18
(Gaia House) Getting to know our experience is so essential, and that is greatly deepened by accepting what has already arisen. But the Dharma is also about cultivation of beautiful, skilful, and w...
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Nathan Glyde: Responsive to a Fluid Self from 2022-02-19T19:47:30
(Gaia House) We can habitually and instinctively feel like our self, and apparent things of the world have the nature of fixity and stability. Yet, when we look deeper, what appeared independent an...
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Nathan Glyde: Dharma Talk - How an Empty Self Transforms the World from 2022-02-11T19:30
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Zohar Lavie: Dharma Talk - the Construction of Dukkha and Release from 2022-02-10T19:30
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Nathan Glyde: Dharma Talk - The Middle Way of Balancing&Gathering from 2022-02-08T19:30
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Ayya Santacitta: Closing Session from 2022-02-07T09:30
(Gaia House) This recording also includes Laura Bridgman.
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Ayya Santacitta: Revealing What Was Hidden or Holding Up a Lamp in the Dark from 2022-02-06T20:56:52
(Gaia House) Talk & Guided Meditation
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Ayya Santacitta: 3rd Vipallasa: Anatta ~ Person Is a Mere Concept from 2022-02-06T16:07:13
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Ayya Santacitta: 2nd Vipallasa: Dukkha ~ Challenges Can Bring Out the Best of Our Human Potential from 2022-02-06T10:53:35
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Ayya Santacitta: 1st Vipallasa: Anicca ~ Impermanence as a Dharma-Gate from 2022-02-05T20:46:57
(Gaia House) Talk & Guided Meditation
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Nathan Glyde: A Wise and Kind Way of Seeing All Things as Unsatisfactory from 2022-02-05T19:31:07
(Gaia House) All changing and unreliable phenomena are neither satisfactory nor dissatisfactory. They neither contain the ingredients for contentment nor for distress. It is in the way of relating ...
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Ayya Santacitta: Having the Humility & Courage to Start Exactly Where We Are from 2022-02-04T20:49:42
(Gaia House) Guided Meditation
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Nathan Glyde: Dharma Talk - Transitioning and Sustaining Welll-being from 2022-02-03T09:30
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Zohar Lavie: Dharma Talk - Lingering in Happiness Beyond Retreat Conditions from 2022-02-02T19:30
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Nathan Glyde: Questions and Responses from 2022-02-02T14:30
(Gaia House) This recording also includes Zohar Lavie.
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Nathan Glyde: Meditation Instructions from 2022-02-02T09:30
(Gaia House) Dukkha way of looking.
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Zohar Lavie: Questions and Responses from 2022-02-01T11:30
(Gaia House) This recording also includes Nathan Glyde.
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Zohar Lavie: Meditation Instructions from 2022-02-01T09:30
(Gaia House) Welcoming phenomena into vast awareness.
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Zohar Lavie: Dharma Talk - Interrupting the Build-Up of Dukkha from 2022-01-31T19:30
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Nathan Glyde: Instructions and Guided Meditation - Opening to Peacefulness from 2022-01-16T09:30
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Nathan Glyde: Dharma Talk - Expanding Joy and Opening to Peace from 2022-01-15T19:39
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Nathan Glyde: Instructions and Guided Meditation - Slowly Gathering in Kindness from 2022-01-14T09:30
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Nathan Glyde: Conditioned Towards Freedom from 2022-01-08T20:43:06
(Gaia House) Exploring how a wide expanse of Buddha Dharma is implied in Dhammapada verse 1:
Phenomena are preceded by the heart,
ruled by the heart,
made of the heart.
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Kirsten Kratz: Reflections from 2022-01-02T19:30
(Gaia House) The power of intention and honouring our ethical sensitivities.
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Kirsten Kratz: Morning Instructions from 2022-01-02T09:30
(Gaia House) Opening of awareness to meet contraction.
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Nathan Glyde: Ways of Practice from 2022-01-01T19:34:53
(Gaia House) Guided meditation and talk about four ways to see our meditation practice: gathering in well-being; radiating beautiful qualities; investigating experience; playing with lenses of perc...
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Jenny Wilks: Dharma Talk from 2022-01-01T19:30
(Gaia House) 'Wayfarer, there is no road' - reflections on the metaphor of the path.
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Kirsten Kratz: Guided Meditation from 2022-01-01T14:30
(Gaia House) Breathing with compassionate presence.
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Nathan Glyde: Activity Beyond Self-View from 2021-12-11T19:37:03
(Gaia House) Exploring the freeing expression of wise and compassionately considered ethics and ethos to create a culture of awakening.
Guided meditation and Dharma Reflection with Q&A
Juha Penttila: Week 6, Part 1 from 2021-11-22T19:30
(Gaia House) Chandrakirti and the Middle Way
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Juha Penttila: Week 6, Part 2 from 2021-11-22T19:30
(Gaia House) A Guided Meditation, and Teachings
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Gregory Kramer: Introduction to Practicing Insight Dialogue in Groups of Two, with 'Listen Deeply' and 'Speak the Truth' Guidelines. from 2021-11-21T16:30
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Gregory Kramer: How the Guidelines 'Listen Deeply' and 'Speak the Truth' are Connected. from 2021-11-21T14:30
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Gregory Kramer: Introduction to Practicing Insight Dialogue with the Guideline 'Listen Deeply'. from 2021-11-21T09:30
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Gregory Kramer: Introduction to the Guideline of 'Attune to Emergence', Through Vigorous Movement, Stillness and Nature. from 2021-11-20T16:30
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Gregory Kramer: Introduction to Practicing Insight Dialogue in Groups of Two, with the 'Attune to Emergence' Guideline. from 2021-11-20T16:30
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Gregory Kramer: Introduction to Practicing Insight Dialogue in Groups of Two, with the Guideline 'Open'. from 2021-11-20T11:30
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Gregory Kramer: Teachings; Guided Contemplative Meditation; Introduction to Practicing Insight Dialogue with the Guideline 'Open'. from 2021-11-20T09:30
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Zohar Lavie: Awareness: Internally, Externally, Both from 2021-10-31T17:00
(Gaia House) Meditation and Dharma Reflection in the Gaia House Online Dharma Hall
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Nathan Glyde: Perceiving is Believing from 2021-10-30T18:00
(Gaia House) Exploring the aggregates of perception in the Online Dharma Hall of Gaia House. A meditation and Dharma reflection, with questions and responses.
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Yanai Postelnik: Dharma Talk - The Art of Unknowing (David Bowie's Axe) from 2021-10-25T19:30
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Yanai Postelnik: Questions and Responses; Instructions; Silent Meditation from 2021-10-24T09:30
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Zohar Lavie: Radiating Metta from 2021-10-23T17:00
(Gaia House) Meditation and Dharma Reflection in the Gaia House Online Dharma Hall
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Ajahn Jutindharo: Guided Meditation; Practicing Outside of Retreat from 2021-10-22T09:30
(Gaia House) This recording also includes Laura Bridgman
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Nathan Glyde: The View of the View Shapes the View from 2021-10-10T10:21:04
(Gaia House) Exploring ditthup?d?na: attachment to views. How to hold, let go, evolve, and expand our views, opinions, and understandings of these teachings. Includes a 30-min meditation, Dharma Re...
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Nathan Glyde: Non-reactive with Distractions from 2021-09-25T17:31:43
(Gaia House) To be distracted, etymologically, is to be "drawn apart". The opposite of distraction therefore may be more skilfully called gathered rather than undistracted. Does our way of relating...
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Ajahn Jutindharo: Answering Written Questions from Retreatants from 2021-09-21T14:30
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Laura Bridgman: Short Reflection on the Relationship Between Suffering and Joy; Silent Meditaiton from 2021-09-20T09:30
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Laura Bridgman: Answers to Retreatants Written Questions; Silent Meditation. from 2021-09-19T19:30
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Laura Bridgman: Reflections on Compassion; More on Walking Meditation and Compassion from 2021-09-19T14:30
(Gaia House) This recording also includes Ajahn Jutindharo.
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Ajahn Jutindharo: Teachings; Guided Meditation from 2021-09-18T09:30
(Gaia House) This recording also includes Laura Bridgman
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Ajahn Jutindharo: Guided Body Work; Guided Metta Meditation from 2021-09-18T07:30
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Laura Bridgman: Loving Kindness as Openness; The Effects of the Inner Critic from 2021-09-17T19:30
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Ajahn Jutindharo: Reflections on How to Work With Discomfort and Pain; Guided Meditation from 2021-09-17T16:30
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Laura Bridgman: Body Exercises, Silent Meditation, Reflections on Not Identifying with Thoughts from 2021-09-17T14:30
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Nathan Glyde: Path of Insight from 2021-09-11T20:53:20
(Gaia House) Exploring ways we may develop a path of insight (understandings that free) practice.
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Jaya Rudgard: Loving Kindness (Metta) Practice - Radiating to the Ten Directions from 2021-09-07T14:30
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Martine Batchelor: Afternoon Teachings: ‘At the Beginning and Before’; Guided Meditation; Questions and Responses from 2021-09-04T14:30
(Gaia House) All of the names of those who asked questions have been removed from the recording.
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Martine Batchelor: Morning Teachings: ‘After and in the Middle’; Guided Meditation; Questions and Responses from 2021-09-04T09:30
(Gaia House) All of the names of those who asked qeustions have been removed from the recording.
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Laura Bridgman: Teachings and Meditation - Finding the Balance Between Ease and Effort from 2021-08-13T14:30
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Laura Bridgman: Teachings And Meditation - Natural Ease, Kindness, and Right Effort from 2021-08-13T09:30
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Jaya Rudgard: Dharma Talk: Karma and Finding a Purpose in the Chaos of Life from 2021-08-07T20:30
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Gavin Milne: Teachings and Guided Meditation from 2021-08-07T09:30
(Gaia House) The Nature of Experience and What This Offers Us
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Jaya Rudgard: Teachings and Guided Meditation from 2021-08-05T16:30
(Gaia House) Mindfulness of the Body
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Gavin Milne: Guided Meditation from 2021-08-04T14:30
(Gaia House) Intention; turning towards ourselves with loving awareness
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Jaya Rudgard: Practice Instructions and Guided Meditation from 2021-08-04T09:30
(Gaia House) Settling, grounding and stabilising.
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Nathan Glyde: Doing, Not Doing, Undoing from 2021-07-31T18:17:07
(Gaia House) Exploring the skilful application of effort and energy in relationship to engagement of insight and samadhi, and the receptive modes of letting go. Is 'not doing' as powerful as insigh...
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Nathan Glyde: Guided Meditation, Teachings (Closing Session) from 2021-07-29T11:30
(Gaia House) Keeping the Retreat Alive
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Zohar Lavie: Dharma Talk - Coming to Life on the Meditation Seat and in the World from 2021-07-28T19:30
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Zohar Lavie: Instructions: Relaxing Contraction and Letting Go of Craving from 2021-07-27T09:30
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Zohar Lavie: Dharma Talk: Metta as a Freeing Way of Looking from 2021-07-26T19:30
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Nathan Glyde: What is Dukkha? from 2021-07-18T17:52:12
(Gaia House) An exploration and meditation on understanding dukkha and reducing it. Maybe we can reverse engineer the experience, then reduce or move in the opposite direction
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Yanai Postelnik: Dharma Talk - Living in Rental Accommodation from 2021-07-10T19:30
(Gaia House) The reality of impermanence.
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Yanai Postelnik: Reflections, and Lightly Guided Meditation from 2021-07-07T09:30
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Nathan Glyde: Empowerment of Investigating from 2021-07-03T17:55:51
(Gaia House) 4th exploration of the bases of success: prior ones are in the: Online Dharma Hall - Jun 2021 'retreat album'. This final one explores v?ma?sa the skilful analysis of experience to dev...
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Zohar Lavie: Opening Awareness from 2021-06-21T20:21:50
(Gaia House) A session for the Online Sitting Group at Gaia House, opening to wider field of sound, expanding awareness for deeper well-being.
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Zohar Lavie: Kindness to all Kind from 2021-06-20T11:10:51
(Gaia House) A guided practice and talk offered in the Online Dharma Hall of Gaia House.
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Nathan Glyde: Empowerment of Aspirational Intentionality from 2021-06-20T11:06:45
(Gaia House) Continuing the theme of Bases of Success. An Online Dharma Hall session with a guided meditation and dharma talk, and some responses to questions in the hall (the questions are not rec...
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Nathan Glyde: Showing Up (V?rya) from 2021-06-12T17:45:45
(Gaia House) V?rya appears second in the list known as the Four Bases of Success. Some translate it as perseverance: the willingness to keep showing up. So essential in our practice, in our lives, ...
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Zohar Lavie: Sharing the Benefits from 2021-06-09T11:56:46
(Gaia House) The last meditation of the retreat: feeling into the benefits of our time of practice, and wishing them to be a support that can touch all beings: especially those who really need the ...
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Nathan Glyde: Path Making: A Transition and Continuation from 2021-06-09T11:06:40
(Gaia House) A review of the practices, and ways we can keep them going, and developing onwards in new creative ways.
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Nathan Glyde: The All of the All is Fabricated from 2021-06-08T19:56:53
(Gaia House) Maintaining a deep practice across the whole of our life is supported by wisdom and clear intention, and those are rooted well in an understanding of the dependent origination of dukkh...
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Nathan Glyde: Guided Equanimity Practice with Intro from 2021-06-08T16:37:36
(Gaia House) The fourth of the brahmavih?r?s, Upekkh?, is a well rooted flexibility; a deeply steady openness; a kindly unshaken intimacy with all things.
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Zohar Lavie: Day 4 - Instructions: A Vast Awareness from 2021-06-08T10:27:09
(Gaia House) Equanimous and spacious, we can allow all things to arise and pass within a calm and sensitive awareness.
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Zohar Lavie: Guided Appreciative Joy Meditation with Intro from 2021-06-07T15:36:04
(Gaia House) Mudit? meditation
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Nathan Glyde: Day 3 - Instructions: This is not Peaceful (A Dukkha Insight Way of Looking) from 2021-06-07T10:23:03
(Gaia House) Noticing the unsatisfactory nature of all phenomena might sound bleak. But instead of ruminating on whether it is true or not, consider whether it is useful: notice if this lens of att...
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Nathan Glyde: The Arrows of Dissatisfaction from 2021-06-06T20:05:53
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Zohar Lavie: Day 2 - Instructions: Whole Body Awareness, Long Breath and Easing Contraction from 2021-06-06T10:18:35
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Zohar Lavie: A Noble Meeting from 2021-06-05T19:58:04
(Gaia House) Overcoming the hindrances to freedom and well-being
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Zohar Lavie: Guided Mett? Practice with Intro from 2021-06-05T16:25:37
(Gaia House) Offering kindness towards an easy relationship and to oneself
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Nathan Glyde: Day 1 - Instructions: Attending to Present Experience from 2021-06-05T10:31:37
(Gaia House) Establishing a mindful presence: relaxing and noticing; sustaining through interest; bringing in kindness and welcoming; enjoying unification.
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Zohar Lavie: Guided Relaxing And Opening Meditation from 2021-06-04T20:09
(Gaia House) Opening the retreat with a guided session of calming mindful presence
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Nathan Glyde: Meeting Life Well from 2021-06-04T18:06:42
(Gaia House) Opening the theme of the retreat. A sense of possibility to upgrade the default settings of the heart and mind. And find opportunity even in the challenges of the human condition, for ...
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Nathan Glyde: Empowerment of Desire and Aspiration from 2021-05-29T17:49:31
(Gaia House) An exploration of the Iddhip?da (Bases of Power) as part of our noble path. Seeing them more in the light of empowerment of our deepest aspirations or most wholesome desires.
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Nathan Glyde: I Shall Not Hate from 2021-05-23T09:48:37
(Gaia House) A few simple ideas to keep the heart and mind open and receptive when pressure builds, instincts are flared, and patterns call us. Freedom is supported by good influences, and shape go...
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Norman Fischer: Online Book Talk -- When You Greet Me I Bow from 2021-05-21T19:30
(Gaia House) In this Dharma talk and discussion Norman Fischer presents his just-out book “When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen,” a collection of thirty years of his Dh...
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Nathan Glyde: The Four Dependently Originating Truths from 2021-04-10T20:43:46
(Gaia House) An exploration of the Dharma teachings of the four ennobling truths as inviting questions into a deep exploration of dependent origination for profound and immediate freedom.
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Martine Batchelor: Morning Instructions from 2021-04-10T09:30
(Gaia House) Calm and Brightness: the roots of radical questioning.
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Laura Bridgman: Sangha as Refuge - reflections and guided practice from 2021-04-05T09:30
(Gaia House) Reflections and Guided Practice around Sangha as refuge, explored within the realm of contactfulness and being close to our direct experience.
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Yanai Postelnik: Dharma Talk - Embodying a 'Just' Awakening from 2021-04-04T19:00
(Gaia House) Reflections on engaging with social justice issues and the climate and ecological emergency, as a natural expression of our spiritual practice.
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Juha Penttila: Metta Towards Phenomena from 2021-04-04T17:00
(Gaia House) Reflections and Guided Practice
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Kirsten Kratz: The liberating Power of Forgiveness from 2021-04-03T19:00
(Gaia House) Reflections & Guided Practice
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Kirsten Kratz: Tuning the Instrument of Body, Mind, Heart from 2021-04-03T11:00
(Gaia House) Reflections & Guided Practice
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Martine Batchelor: Mudita as appreciative joy and altruistic joy in our daily life. from 2021-04-02T17:00
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Kirsten Kratz: Delight in One's Presence from 2021-04-02T11:00
(Gaia House) Reflections and Guided Practice
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Zohar Lavie: The Buddhas Advice on Cultivating Wellbeing and Happiness from 2021-03-28T10:47:32
(Gaia House) Meditation and Dharma talk. The Sutta that is mentioned: AN 8.54. To Dighajanu from the A?guttara Nik?ya, in the Book of the Eights.
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Nathan Glyde: The Great Practice of Life from 2021-03-27T18:25:40
(Gaia House) Online Dharma Hall session exploring practice in all four postures, and making the efforts to awaken the paramis and abandon the hindrances, and their roots and routes.
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Zohar Lavie: Opening Perspective, Inclining To Well-Being from 2021-03-20T18:39:59
(Gaia House) Guided meditation and Dharma Talk
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Helen Stephenson: Closing Session for Retreat from 2021-03-14T19:30
(Gaia House) This recording also includes Yanai Postelnik.
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Helen Stephenson: Dharma Talk from 2021-03-13T20:30
(Gaia House) Yoga - A Spiritual Path Explored
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Nathan Glyde: All Kinds of Kindness from 2021-03-13T19:41:36
(Gaia House) What would our practice look like with metta? at the centre, as the goal, or as the heart of all we do. Guided practice and talk.
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Yanai Postelnik: Morning Teachings and Guided Meditation from 2021-03-13T10:30
(Gaia House) Guidance on turning towards what may be difficult in our experience, with care and kindness.
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Yanai Postelnik: Dharma Talk from 2021-03-12T20:30
(Gaia House) Reflections on how living an embodied life is central to the spiritual journey, and how to find a balance between engagement and relaxation when working with the body in our practice.
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Yanai Postelnik: Morning Teachings and Meditation from 2021-03-12T10:30
(Gaia House) Instructions on practicing Insight Meditation, and a lightly guided meditation.
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Zohar Lavie: Truthfulness and Honesty in our Lives and Practice from 2021-03-11T19:44:44
(Gaia House) Guided meditation and Dharma talk
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Yanai Postelnik: Opening Evening of the Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat from 2021-03-11T19:30
(Gaia House) Welcome, orienting within the retreat, short guided yoga and meditation.
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Kirsten Kratz: How we Approach the Moment Will Shape the Moment from 2021-03-07T10:30
(Gaia House) Reflections on how we actively, yet often unconsciously, co-create , through our assumptions, believes and perceptions, our experience in practice and in life.
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Kirsten Kratz: Dharma Talk - The Dance of ‘Neither-Nor’ – ‘The Dance of ‘This AND That’ from 2021-03-06T20:30
(Gaia House) Weaving together different strands of the teachings offered up to now and venturing a little bit further.
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Jaya Rudgard: Jaya reads out offerings from retreatants, and then leads a silent meditation. from 2021-03-06T15:30
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Nathan Glyde: Appreciation and Enjoyment from 2021-02-28T11:52:53
(Gaia House) Guided meditation and talk at Gaia House's online Dharma hall session on "What, when I do it, will lead to my long-term well-being and happiness?".
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Zohar Lavie: Compassion Guided Practice and Dharma Talk from 2021-02-27T19:00
(Gaia House) Guided meditation and talk at Gaia House's online Dharma hall session on Compassion for Happiness and Well-Being
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Nathan Glyde: "I Can Wait" - Surfing the Urge of Distraction and Dukkha from 2021-02-21T14:58:29
(Gaia House) A guided meditation and talk (at least somewhat) inspired by Matt Mullenweg's bio: I can think, I can wait, I can fast and Nir Eyal's book Indistractible we explore the "don't scratch ...
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Gavin Milne: Guided Meditation and Teachings from 2021-02-13T10:30
(Gaia House) Coming back to the body in the moment.
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Nathan Glyde: Magically Making Time from 2021-02-07T19:07:18
(Gaia House) Guided meditation and talk from the Online Dharma Hall
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Nathan Glyde: A Boundless Path of Insight from 2021-02-04T17:35:47
(Gaia House) Sa?kh?ra points out that in every moment of life there is a phenomena in attention and atmosphere of attention that is shaping it. This happens on a retreat and in the whole of our lif...
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Zohar Lavie: Day 4 - Instructions: Dukkha and Opening Way of Looking from 2021-02-04T11:40:40
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Nathan Glyde: Metta? to Easy Relationship, then More Neutral, Challenging, or Oneself, then our into the World from 2021-02-03T21:22:20
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Nathan Glyde: Day 3 - Instructions: Anicca and Vedan? Way of Looking from 2021-02-03T13:13:39
(Gaia House) Noticing change, and the attribution of hedonic categories to appearances, to open the possibility of possibilities: to ease, to let go, and to relax, opening up, and awaken.
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Zohar Lavie: Equipoise in Challenging Times from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
(Gaia House) Guided meditation and Dharma Talk
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Nathan Glyde: Beyond the Present Moment from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
(Gaia House) Being present is an essential component of the Dharma path. It feels good to bring body, heart, mind, attention, consciousness, all together in the present moment. But being present is...
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Nathan Glyde: Appropriate Attention from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
(Gaia House) A guided meditation and reflection on yoniso manasikāra and being skilful in questioning experience.
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Zohar Lavie: New Year Reflections and Practice from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
(Gaia House) About the power of intention
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Kirsten Kratz: Guided Meditation - Becoming Like a Tree from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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Kirsten Kratz: Teachings and Guided Meditation - Tuning into Metta (Loving Kindness) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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Jaya Rudgard: Guided Meditation - The Five Elements from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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Kirsten Kratz: Teachings and Guided Meditation - Being Welcomed from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
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Zohar Lavie: Exploring Trustworthy Well-being and Happiness from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
(Gaia House) Guided meditation and talk
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Nathan Glyde: Dissolving the Boundary between Retreat and Daily Life from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
(Gaia House) Transition talk for the closing of the retreat. Questioning what is the Dharma teaching (for) us, what is our goal, our path, our understanding of ethics, sangha…and expressing the ide...
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Nathan Glyde: Guided Mettā to All Phenomena from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
(Gaia House) Expanding our mettā practice to offer kindness and care to anything at all that appears in consciousness.
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Nathan Glyde: Day 3 Instructions - Anattā from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
(Gaia House) Bringing a not self view as a way to open more mettā and well being into life here and now
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Zohar Lavie: Guided Mettā to Sounds and Sensations from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
(Gaia House) Bringing the relational field of mettā to sense contact rather than specific beings.
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Nathan Glyde: Anattā and Mettā from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
(Gaia House) The not-self strategy (anattā) is indicated, invited, and supported by kindness (mettā).
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Zohar Lavie: Day 4 Instructions - Dukkha Insightful Way of Relating from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
(Gaia House) Opening and relaxing contraction as a way of expressing an understanding of tanha roots in the dukkha field
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