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Zohar has been practicing meditation in different traditions since 1995. This journey has taken her from the meditation cushion into exploring further ways of expressing truth and love and in 2004 she co-founded SanghaSeva. She now spends most of her time facilitating retreats that offer service as a spiritual path around the world. Since 2006 she has been teaching on silent retreats and Dharma gatherings in India, Europe and Israel.
(Gaia House) Mettā expanded, boundless and immeasurable: to all beings including self and including challenging relationship
(Gaia House) This session includes a guided practice, Dharma reflection, and the answers to (unrecorded) questions from participants.
(Gaia House) Compassion is how we walk this path of peace. "Hostilities aren’t stilledthrough hostility,regardless.Hostilities are stilledthrough non-hostility:this, an unending truth."DHP 5 — Trans: Thānisarro Bhikku
(SanghaSeva) Includes suggestions for good posture for stillness practice, and instructions for movement (walking) meditation at end
(Gaia House) Online Dharma Hall session including guided meditation and Dharma talk on the theme of the interwinding co-creating aspects of appreciation, gratitude, and joy.
(Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland) Includes, at the end, more info about Nirodha Insight Medittaion in Finland from one of the retreat managers: see Nirodha.fi for more. For more about Nathan and Zohar, visit DependentOrigination.org
(Gaia House) A Dharma talk, meditation, and questions and responses session, the questions are not recorded, only the responses.
(Gaia House) A Dharma talk, meditation, and questions and responses session, the questions are not recorded, only the responses.
(Gaia House) A Dharma talk, meditation, and questions and responses session, the questions are not recorded, only the responses.
(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 questions have not been recorded, but it should still make sense.
(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 of Gaia House.
(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 of Gaia House.
(Gaia House) This recording also includes Nathan Glyde. Any names or 'live' questions have been removed from the recording.
(Gaia House) This recording also includes Nathan Glyde. Any names or 'live' questions have been removed from the recording.
(Gaia House) A session for the Online Sitting Group at Gaia House, opening to wider field of sound, expanding awareness for deeper well-being.
(Gaia House) A guided practice and talk offered in the Online Dharma Hall of Gaia House.
(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 peace and calm, the kindness and compassion, the clarity and wisdom at this time.
(Gaia House) Equanimous and spacious, we can allow all things to arise and pass within a calm and sensitive awareness.
(Gaia House) Meditation and Dharma talk. The Sutta that is mentioned: AN 8.54. To Dighajanu from the Aṅguttara Nikāya, in the Book of the Eights.
(Gaia House) Guided meditation and talk at Gaia House's online Dharma hall session on Compassion for Happiness and Well-Being
(Tovana Insight Meditation) Day 2 - Instructions in Hebrew - Using Vedana To Tune In To The Pleasant And Untangle The Unpleasant
(Gaia House) Bringing the relational field of mettā to sense contact rather than specific beings.
(Gaia House) Opening and relaxing contraction as a way of expressing an understanding of tanha roots in the dukkha field
(Gaia House) Spreading mettā to a being from an easy relationship, to self, being from a more neutral relationship and outward to all beings
(SanghaSeva) Lessening the contraction that co-arises with a dukkha manifesting push-pull.
(SanghaSeva) In Hebrew: Exploring how metta and samadhi co-create conditions and experiences of non-dukkha. How metta reveals intimacy, and expresses non-demanding. And how samadhi tunes us beyond our habitual capacities, so we can linger in what is deeply okay, and open into liberating well-being.
(Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland) Looking at how dukkha is constructed/fabricated, and finding skilful ease through ways of relating.
(Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland) By opening the space of awareness actively we can engender more wellbeing and enjoyable energy into our practice.
(Gaia House) Dana talk for participants of the "Waking the Heart, Expanding the World" retreat
(Gaia House) Sending a welcoming quality of attention (metta) to whatever appears at the sense doors.
(Gaia House) A kindness meditation towards all appearance: seeing how experience is fabricated by seeing all phenomena as deserving of kindness and care. Starts with 7 minutes of a Guanyin chant (using the lovely words and tune offered by Caroline Jones).
(Gaia House) A compassion meditation, starting with 7 minutes of a Guanyin chant (using the lovely words and tune offered by Caroline Jones).
(Gaia House) Listening is a transferable skill from the cushion to all of life. One that supports us to engage skilfully with our life: to ask deep questions, and be sensitive and creative in how we live, how speak, and how we listen.
(SanghaSeva) The last Hebrew talk of this retreat, talking about how to sustain our practice of metta and skilful ways of relating, and the possibilities of fostering more insights as we approach re-engagment with the world.
(SanghaSeva) Talk in Hebrew: Understanding how experience is fabricated leads us towards skilful ways of fabricating less dukkha, self-identity, and increasing well-being.
(SanghaSeva) Talk in Hebrew, about how experience is fabricated. Particularly by the way of relating of 'firing the second arrow' of 'dukkha' towards what is difficult, and how we can find a more appropriate and liberating response via a 'metta' way of relating.
(SanghaSeva) How can teachings and our practice be a refuge and a response when we meet the reality of a global pandemic? This talk reflects on the wisdom of ancient traditions, and how it has had relevant applications through time, right up to this present moment.
(SanghaSeva) A guided meditation to nourish and support us through humanity’s journey through the coronavirus pandemic.
(SanghaSeva) We are living through an unusual period. As coronavirus spreads, much of what we take for granted is being shaken. There is uncertainty and fear around us, and also within us. How can Dharma teachings and practices support us? How can we deepen understanding and compassion in the midst of it all? This talk offers reflections on possibilities that are available to us, including practices that we can engage with, lean into, and cultivate.
(SanghaSeva) Equanimity in relation to service, compassionate action, and the joy of bodhisattva spirit.
(SanghaSeva) Service brings joy, and joy urges us towards care for others and the world. Service is joyful, and joy can be of service for what really matters.
(SanghaSeva) Dukkhā's escalation can be eased, and even fully calmed, at times, by seeing the vedanā (the underlying preference for what seems good) and bringing in conscious wisdom.
(Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland) Generosity as the path, goal, and way that starts here and now.
(Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland) Decreasing the fabrication of distress by opening the body sense, breathing in skilful pleasant ways, and letting go of the unwholesome patterns of mind.
(Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland) Cultivating a metta attitude to all the vedana of experience to relieve the dukkha escalation of the second (and more) arrows.
(SanghaSeva) Instructions in the hall - bringing awareness to the interconnected nature of all phenomena and their lack of inherent self existence
(SanghaSeva) The fourth day's instructions in the hall, looking at and noting the character of impermanence
(SanghaSeva) Extending the practice of good will which is usually offered to all living beings to all phenomena of living experience
(Gaia House (Bala Brook)) These recordings are part of a ten month course entitled Living Fearlessly with Change - Exploring Ageing, Illness and Death Through Buddhist Practice and Service.
(Gaia House (Bala Brook)) These recordings are part of a ten month course entitled Living Fearlessly with Change - Exploring Ageing, Illness and Death Through Buddhist Practice and Service.
(SanghaSeva) Guided Mudita meditation spreading out our consciousness offered "appreciative joy" first to oneself, then to someone our relationship is easy with, then a "neutral" relationship, then to all beings everywhere.
(SanghaSeva) 15 minutes of silent meditation followed by a 20 minute guided Metta ( Loving Kindness ) meditation
(SanghaSeva) Taṇhā meaning physical or mental thirst, desire, longing, or greed. Usually divided into three types: kama-tanha (craving for sensual pleasures), bhava-tanha (craving for existence), and vibhava-tanha (craving for non-existence).
(Gaia House (Bala Brook)) These recordings are part of a ten month course entitled Living Fearlessly with Change - Exploring Ageing, Illness and Death Through Buddhist Practice and Service.
(Gaia House (Bala Brook)) These recordings are part of a ten month course entitled Living Fearlessly with Change - Exploring Ageing, Illness and Death Through Buddhist Practice and Service.
(Gaia House (Bala Brook)) These recordings are part of a ten month course entitled Living Fearlessly with Change - Exploring Ageing, Illness and Death Through Buddhist Practice and Service. This recording also includes Zohar Lavie.