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A Deep Well of Joy

Gabrielle McMahon

Together lets explore the ways Joy can be found and cultivated in our lives, for it to be a deep well of nourishment and an unconditional abode for us.

A True Refuge

Subhana Barzaghi

Exploring how the Buddha dharma can be a true refuge and support in our lives.

An Awakening Path of the Feminine

Lisa Brown

This talk is about balancing masculine and feminine energies on the path of awakening and includes the story of Yasodhara the Buddha's beloved partner of many lifetimes.

Anapanasati 1 Meditation

Renata Malinauskas

Guided meditation on the first tetrads of the Anapanasati meditation

Anapanasati meditation 4th tetrad

Alan Bassal

Anapanasati meditation involves focusing on the natural rhythm of the in-breath and out-breath. In this meditation we explore all 4 tetrads of this highly revered meditation.

Anger and ill Will

Suzie Brown

Exploring how the Buddha's teachings can help us to reduce the suffering, for ourselves and others, from anger and ill will.

Awareness

Will James

This talk centres around awareness, its quality, how it is shaped by our previous experiences and how it can contribute to suffering or freedom in our everyday life.

Blocks and Gateways

Beth Hill

Exploring the 5 common problems that arise in our practice and life. Which 5, and what to do?

Body Scan Meditation, 16mins

Kate Duncan

A scan to focus on different body parts, to anchor attention into the present moment through mindfulness of the body. Recommended to do lying down.

Burning with greed ignorance and hatred

Mal Huxter

This talk explores the world in two different ways, the subject world of the six senses as well as the external world. By bringing mindfulness and compassion to our own inner reactions, we can also bring empathy and understanding to the other.

Choiceless Awareness Introduction

Subhana Barzaghi

This is an introduction to give you an understanding of the meditation practice called Choiceless Awareness. It is valuable to listen to this talk before being guided by Subhana's Choiceless Awareness meditation.

Choiceless Awareness Meditation

Subhana Barzaghi

Choiceless awareness meditation trains the mind to stay fully present with our senses: sounds, thoughts, feelings, sensations as they come and go. Developing deep presence.

Compassion Towards Self

Subhana Barzaghi

This is a guided meditation inclining ourselves to offer compassion towards self.

Desire

Kate Amy

A traditional Buddhist view of 'desire' and an exploration of a contemporary perspective. How to engage with our desires in a wholesome way.

Dharma of the Spoken Word

Anna McKay

This talk explores the value of the spoken word on the path of awakening, via wise speech, deep listening and silence.

Division: Subject and Object

Will James

Tackling the observer and the observed, the witness and the witnessed. The idea of non-clinging to the subject or the object, the responses we can experience.

Embodied Awakening

Renata Malinauskas

In this Dharma talk, Renata explores the body as a gateway to presence, wisdom, and freedom, inviting us to rediscover embodied awareness as the ground from which insight, healing, and awakening naturally unfold.

Embodied Investigation

Renata Malinauskas

In this Dharma talk, Renata explores embodied investigation as a path of inquiry, revealing how meeting experience with curiosity and presence can deepen insight, compassion, and freedom.

Emptiness Non-Dual Mind

Subhana Barzaghi

This talk shines some light on a core teaching of the Buddha, what is Non-Dual mind and what is meant when we talk about emptiness, empty of what?

Feeling and the Breath

Robyn Gibson

Our relationship with pleasure in meditation is crucial to our waking up, as the Buddha also discovered. This talk explores the role of pleasure and desire on the path, in relation to ānāpānasati, mindfulness with breathing.

Finding Happiness

Alan Bassal

Exploring our search for happiness and where and how is true happiness found.

Form, Formless and Cessation

Will James

All forms are continually arising, maintaining and dissolving due to specific causes and
conditions. There is no such thing as a separate independent form.

Freedom Song of an Awakened Heart-

Ali Barlow

There are 3 powerfully conditioned tendencies that fabricate our world. Further conditioning either suffering or peace in the world and who we relate to the world.

Generosity

Carol Perry

Generosity is the first of the 10 perfections, this talk explores the immeasurable interactions that happen between humans and greater than humans. An exploration of our relationship with giving and receiving.

Generosity

Kate Duncan

In the Buddha’s time, if you asked him how to be happy, he would begin by telling you to be more generous. But how would giving more of our time, money or service possibly make us happier? This talk explores how.

I Give Up

Nadine Levy

A mindful gaze at the way we react to intention, motivation, wanting and desire

Impermanence and Letting go

Mal Huxter

This talk is of the 16 steps of mindfulness of breathing. It provides a perspective on the 4th tetrad, contemplating impermanence, dispassion, cessation and letting go.

Inseparability

Carol Perry

The importance of examining the boulders and grains of internalised voices and conditions that lead our mind to duality, rejection, difference and separation from each other and the natural world.

Interweaving Trauma, Recovery & Awakening

Mal Huxter

This talk explores the connection and distinction between the ultimate realization of Nibbana and "ennobling awakenings"—relative shifts in perception that facilitate deep therapeutic healing.

Letting Go

Robyn Gibson

Letting go can be seen as a ripening; and as a profound cooling. These two metaphors help us explore letting go. And while we can't 'do' letting go, we can learn how to set the conditions in which letting go naturally happens.

Letting Go & Renunciation

Suzie Brown

This talk is an exploration of how our Dharma practice supports us to let go of the factors that cause us suffering, allowing us to experience true liberation.

Loneliness

Alan Bassal

'Only the lonely know this feeling ain't right'. Understanding the nature of loneliness and how it persists. What is the way out of loneliness and towards connection.

Meditation - Anapanasati 3

Renata Malinauskas

Anapanasati meditation first 3 tetrads. Now focusing on gladening the mind.

Meditation - Anapanasati, all Tetrads

Gabrielle McMahon

This guided meditation moves through all 16 Steps of Mindfulness of Breathing, Anapanasati sutta. Discover first hand how the flow of the 4 Tetrads leads to letting go.

Meta/Loving Kindess meditation

Gabrielle McMahon

Settle into this traditional Loving Kindness meditation, using phrases to offer kindness, friendliness and loving kindness in all directions, including our selves. Enjoy!

Metta to Experience

Gabrielle McMahon

Offering loving kindness, friendliness and compassion to all experiences that arises in consciousness, nothing is excluded. Inspired by Rob Burbea.

Mindfulness as a Path to Belonging

Beth Hill

This talk explores belonging and its expression in practice. Drawing on Joanna Macy and Thích Nhất Hạnh, we explore how belonging to the Earth softens the illusion of a separate self, opening a path to freedom, intimacy, and joy.

Mindfulness of Breathing

Kate Duncan

A sitting meditation to guide basic awareness of breath- 14 mins

More than a Thought

Beth Hill

Explore how mindfulness practice helps us move beyond thinking into truly experiencing the teachings of the Buddha in our own lives.

Natural, Effortless Awareness

Nadine Levy

Don't try to become anything, don't make yourself into anything, grasp at nothing, resist nothing. An exploration of effortless awareness.

No mud, no Lotus, no Self, noProbem

Kate Amy

An exploration of a renowned poem by Thich Nhat Hanh

Ours is not a Caravan of Despair

Ali Barlow

Freedom is in knowing our experience in any given moment, paying attention to what it feels like to be less reactive, this is the inner ease, peace, freedom and relief of non-reactive awareness.

Peace Amidst the Storm

Suzie Brown

This talk explores how our practice helps us to choose peace amidst the chaos of the world, allowing us to choose how we respond to our emotions and cultivate equanimity.

Recognising the Universe in All Beings

Lisa Brown

This is a talk on Compassion and Engaged Buddhism to ask the question how do we recognise the universe in each other and all beings? To recognise the universe in all beings is to wake up.

Reducing Suffering of Pain and illness

Suzie Brown

How an understanding of Buddha's teachings can help us reduce the suffering associated with pain and illness.

Remember to Relax the Mind

Carol Perry

The job of the mind is to perceive, select, cling and magnify. By not making the mind irrelevant, not making it the enemy, we can sensitise ourselves to noticing how quickly the mind grabs and how the body becomes agitated.

Ripening the Awakening Factors

Subhana Barzaghi

An exploration of how to bring the awakening factors into every day life

Sacred Activism and the Heart

Lisa Brown

How the Buddha's teachings can guide us in meeting the chaos of the polycrisis on Earth. How to find creative ways to transform consciousness and move towards collective action, while bearing witness to immense suffering.

Safe Place Meditation, 10 mins

Kate Duncan

A helpful meditation when you feel restlessness, unsafe, or with troubling emotions, using the minds powerful capacity for cultivation to touch into safety. May be useful for trauma.

Sankharas

Kate Duncan

Investigating the way we look at things

Self-Compassion

Suzie Brown

A deep dive into Self-compassion, this important and beautiful practice that can be cultivated and yet is also a natural arising from deepening into mindfulness and awakening to our true nature.

Sensing into nature

Marion Miller

A meditation to be listened to while sitting down or standing still somewhere in nature. This practice invites you to explore the feeling of aliveness through focusing on your sense of sound, smell, touch, and sight in nature.

Shame and Guilt

Kate Amy

Unburdening and casting off the shackles of shame. An exploration of the effect of shame on our development and how to enter into a different relationship with this hidden emotion.

Short Breathing Space, 2 minutes

Kate Duncan

A very short practice to quickly and effectively come into the present, to be used anytime.

Softening the Grip of the I

Renata Malinauskas

How we create this sense of self and how this becomes problematic.

Sprinkling holy water on the dragons tail

Subhana Barzaghi

Intriguing title, what dragon are we talking about and where is the holy water?

Stages of Practice and Disillusionment

Anton Eastick

Once we're past the initial enthusiasm that can come naturally when we hear the teachings, the shine can wear off the teachings and teachers. Disillusionment is a natural part of life that can and perhaps should be explored in more depth.

Swaying with the Worldly Winds

Gabrielle McMahon

Exploring Buddha's teaching on the factors that make us lose our equanimity and peace of mind.

Tending the Grounds of Joy

Carol Perry

The grounds of Joy need a lot of tending. Joy and sorrow go hand in hand, they are like mountains and valleys. When we deeply understand the unconditioned nature of existence we can open to joy through sorrow & sorrow through joy.

The 7 Awakening Factors

Gabrielle McMahon

Experience the flow of the 7 Awakening Factors in this gentle guided meditation.

The Art of Wise Effort

Beth Hill

How do we discern between striving and courageous energy that brings life into our practice? This talk explores meditation as a dance between body, mind, heart, and all of existence - opening to the grace of wise effort.

The Bliss of Blamelessness

Kate Duncan

Virtue as the Deepest Happiness, an exploration of buddhist ethics and their value

The Four Noble Truths

Nadine Levy

This talk beautifully outlines the Buddha's first teaching after he became enlightened, which explains the nature of suffering and the path to freedom from suffering: the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path.

The Heart of Yaśodharā

Lisa Brown

How to awaken through softening in the world by embodying the essence of the enlightened feminine. Yaśodharā was Buddha's wife.

The Monkey and the Moon

Kate Duncan

The Monkey and the Moon is all about right view and the effect this has on our lives, identity and happiness.

The Ship of Death

Lizzie Turnbull

The gift, intimacy and inevitability of death, how are we building our ship?

The Simile of the Mountain

Nick Lavery

The simile of the Mountain sutta serves as a powerful reminder of the universal truths of life and death, and urges reflection on the importance of making the most of our time.

The Story of I - Not self

Gabrielle McMahon

Join me to explore how the "Story of I" is a central theme in our lives, yet not always that useful. And how we can begin to bring attention to this fabricated story and find a release from seeing the truth.

The Thief Who Steals Our Happiness

Lisa Brown

This recording was made on a meditation retreat at Sangsurya, Byron Bay, NSW. It involves a Dharma talk on the 3rd establishment of mindfulness -contemplating mind on Dec 2, 2024

The Way to Nibbana

Patrick Kearney

How the 4 applications of mindfulness lead to nibbana. The end of the process of burning and clinging and the peace and calm that naturally emerges.

To Touch the Earth

Subhana Barzaghi

This Dharma talk explores many things and more ........

True Power in a Changing World

Mal Huxter

Retreat Dharma talk. True Power: how the 5 faculties (faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, wisdom) transform psychological suffering into freedom. April 2026

Unwavering Steadiness - Equanimity

Gabrielle McMahon

With the uncertain landscape of being human, bringing equanimity, a sense of unwavering steadiness, is a powerful support, to meet our experiences.

Views, Views and more Views

Alan Bassal

An exploration of how our views and perception affects and shapes our relationship with others and ourselves. Looking at how mindfulness of views can open the doorway to beauty and love.

Walking on the earth

Marion Miller

A meditation to do in your garden or local park. Listen while walking mindfully in nature and bringing awareness of biodiversity by engaging mindfully as you walk lightly on the earth.

Who is Buddha?

Patrick Kearney

We can examine the nature of Buddha through two lenses: the Buddha of history and the Buddha of saddhā, of faith. The obvious difference between them is that the Buddha of history is dead, while the Buddha of saddhā is alive.

Working with anger with global crisis

Mal Huxter

In this talk, I would like to explore how we can transform these heavy emotions into wise, compassionate action. Together, I hope we can look closely at the nature of anger helping us respond to global turmoil with both heart and effectiveness.

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A Deep Well of Joy

Together lets explore the ways Joy can be found and cultivated in our lives, for it to be a deep well of nourishment and an unconditional abode for us.

A True Refuge

Exploring how the Buddha dharma can be a true refuge and support in our lives.

An Awakening Path of the Feminine

This talk is about balancing masculine and feminine energies on the path of awakening and includes the story of Yasodhara the Buddha's beloved partner of many lifetimes.

Anapanasati 1 Meditation

Guided meditation on the first tetrads of the Anapanasati meditation

Anapanasati meditation 4th tetrad

Anapanasati meditation involves focusing on the natural rhythm of the in-breath and out-breath. In this meditation we explore all 4 tetrads of this highly revered meditation.

Anger and ill Will

Exploring how the Buddha's teachings can help us to reduce the suffering, for ourselves and others, from anger and ill will.

Awareness

This talk centres around awareness, its quality, how it is shaped by our previous experiences and how it can contribute to suffering or freedom in our everyday life.

Blocks and Gateways

Exploring the 5 common problems that arise in our practice and life. Which 5, and what to do?

Body Scan Meditation, 16mins

A scan to focus on different body parts, to anchor attention into the present moment through mindfulness of the body. Recommended to do lying down.

Burning with greed ignorance and hatred

This talk explores the world in two different ways, the subject world of the six senses as well as the external world. By bringing mindfulness and compassion to our own inner reactions, we can also bring empathy and understanding to the other.

Choiceless Awareness Introduction

This is an introduction to give you an understanding of the meditation practice called Choiceless Awareness. It is valuable to listen to this talk before being guided by Subhana's Choiceless Awareness meditation.

Choiceless Awareness Meditation

Choiceless awareness meditation trains the mind to stay fully present with our senses: sounds, thoughts, feelings, sensations as they come and go. Developing deep presence.

Compassion Towards Self

This is a guided meditation inclining ourselves to offer compassion towards self.

Desire

A traditional Buddhist view of 'desire' and an exploration of a contemporary perspective. How to engage with our desires in a wholesome way.

Dharma of the Spoken Word

This talk explores the value of the spoken word on the path of awakening, via wise speech, deep listening and silence.

Division: Subject and Object

Tackling the observer and the observed, the witness and the witnessed. The idea of non-clinging to the subject or the object, the responses we can experience.

Embodied Awakening

In this Dharma talk, Renata explores the body as a gateway to presence, wisdom, and freedom, inviting us to rediscover embodied awareness as the ground from which insight, healing, and awakening naturally unfold.

Embodied Investigation

In this Dharma talk, Renata explores embodied investigation as a path of inquiry, revealing how meeting experience with curiosity and presence can deepen insight, compassion, and freedom.

Emptiness Non-Dual Mind

This talk shines some light on a core teaching of the Buddha, what is Non-Dual mind and what is meant when we talk about emptiness, empty of what?

Feeling and the Breath

Our relationship with pleasure in meditation is crucial to our waking up, as the Buddha also discovered. This talk explores the role of pleasure and desire on the path, in relation to ānāpānasati, mindfulness with breathing.

Finding Happiness

Exploring our search for happiness and where and how is true happiness found.

Form, Formless and Cessation

All forms are continually arising, maintaining and dissolving due to specific causes andconditions. There is no such thing as a separate independent form.

Freedom Song of an Awakened Heart-

There are 3 powerfully conditioned tendencies that fabricate our world. Further conditioning either suffering or peace in the world and who we relate to the world.

Generosity

Generosity is the first of the 10 perfections, this talk explores the immeasurable interactions that happen between humans and greater than humans. An exploration of our relationship with giving and receiving.

Generosity

In the Buddha’s time, if you asked him how to be happy, he would begin by telling you to be more generous. But how would giving more of our time, money or service possibly make us happier? This talk explores how.

I Give Up

A mindful gaze at the way we react to intention, motivation, wanting and desire

Impermanence and Letting go

This talk is of the 16 steps of mindfulness of breathing. It provides a perspective on the 4th tetrad, contemplating impermanence, dispassion, cessation and letting go.

Inseparability

The importance of examining the boulders and grains of internalised voices and conditions that lead our mind to duality, rejection, difference and separation from each other and the natural world.

Interweaving Trauma, Recovery & Awakening

This talk explores the connection and distinction between the ultimate realization of Nibbana and "ennobling awakenings"—relative shifts in perception that facilitate deep therapeutic healing.

Letting Go

Letting go can be seen as a ripening; and as a profound cooling. These two metaphors help us explore letting go. And while we can't 'do' letting go, we can learn how to set the conditions in which letting go naturally happens.

Letting Go & Renunciation

This talk is an exploration of how our Dharma practice supports us to let go of the factors that cause us suffering, allowing us to experience true liberation.

Loneliness

'Only the lonely know this feeling ain't right'. Understanding the nature of loneliness and how it persists. What is the way out of loneliness and towards connection.

Meditation - Anapanasati 3

Anapanasati meditation first 3 tetrads. Now focusing on gladening the mind.

Meditation - Anapanasati, all Tetrads

This guided meditation moves through all 16 Steps of Mindfulness of Breathing, Anapanasati sutta. Discover first hand how the flow of the 4 Tetrads leads to letting go.

Meta/Loving Kindess meditation

Settle into this traditional Loving Kindness meditation, using phrases to offer kindness, friendliness and loving kindness in all directions, including our selves. Enjoy!

Metta to Experience

Offering loving kindness, friendliness and compassion to all experiences that arises in consciousness, nothing is excluded. Inspired by Rob Burbea.

Mindfulness as a Path to Belonging

This talk explores belonging and its expression in practice. Drawing on Joanna Macy and Thích Nhất Hạnh, we explore how belonging to the Earth softens the illusion of a separate self, opening a path to freedom, intimacy, and joy.

Mindfulness of Breathing

A sitting meditation to guide basic awareness of breath- 14 mins

More than a Thought

Explore how mindfulness practice helps us move beyond thinking into truly experiencing the teachings of the Buddha in our own lives.

Natural, Effortless Awareness

All forms are continually arising, maintaining and dissolving due to specific causes and
conditions. There is no such thing as a separate independent form.