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Dharma Sundays with Natural Dharma Fellowship include teachings, meditation, and discussions led by NDF Dharma and guest teachers. A wide range of topics are offered.
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- 1 weeks ago1h 32m
Had I Not Been Awake With Lama Willa
Join Lama Willa Baker and the online sangha of Natural Dharma Fellowship for a morning of teaching, prayer, contemplation, meditation practice, and community. Not by the book, Willa’s Dharma Sundays reflect what is most immediately and spontaneously on her heartmind. Time is allotted at the end of every Sunday session for audience participation, questions and reflections. Bring your curiosity, questions and insights.
- 1 weeks ago1h 37m
The Dharma of Trees with JD Doyle
The Buddha invites us to become intimate with the teachings of trees. In this talk, we’ll explore stories from the early Buddhist suttas that reveal trees as steady companions and teachers along the path of awakening.
- 2 weeks ago1h 56m
The Power of Stupas With Lama Karma Justin Wall
Stupas are said to be a “support for enlightened mind”. How does this work? What goes into making a stupa, and why is that important for us as practitioners? Stupas are powerful sources of support on many levels. Central to understanding why stupas are beneficial is an outlook on our practice that includes the interplay between the inner elements of our body-mind and the outer elements of appearances and other beings. Understanding how to bridge and dance between the inner and outer, we can access connate awareness and celebrate it with others. We will explore this interplay with a guided practice, and then explore how it relates to the design, construction, and activity of stupas.
- 2 weeks ago1h 57m
The 21 Semdzin, Continued With Lama Karma Justin Wall
The 21 Semdzin are a series of practices found in the Dzogchen Upadesha tantras, using visualization, sonification, and embodiment to release effort and rest in non-meditation. Originally found in the “Reverberation of Sound” and the “Union of the Sun and Moon” tantras of the Upadesha class of Dzogchen, the 21 Semdzin were codified by Longchenpa in the 14th Century. Each semdzin, “lit. holding the mind” is a practice of using light, sound, and embodiment to release grasping and rest in unfabricated presence. This is the second part of a two-part series. Listen to part-one.
- 3 weeks ago1h 48m
Heartfelt Confidence With Camille Hykes and Shemaleiah Geremia-Smylie
In Heart Advice for Practitioners, Patrul Rinpoche advises: “Whether you practice the Dharma of sūtra, tantra, terma, or pure vision, train in every part, from beginning to the end, until you achieve confidence.” But what is the kind of confidence that arises through Dharma practice? Is confidence the same as certainty? Does it come from accumulating information or receiving teachings? Yukhok Chatralwa Chöying Rangdrol writes that, through “training in the power of recognition,” we can come to a “deep-seated, heartfelt confidence.” In this Dharma Sunday, Camille and Shemaleiah will explore what it may mean to cultivate this heartfelt confidence for ourselves. What is the difference between information and knowingness? How do we move from ideas about the view toward realizing it? What does it mean to be honest and authentic? What keeps us on the path? Where do we direct our devotion? What would it be like to stop trying to attain something outside ourselves and instead belong to what is already here? Perhaps we may discover that heartfelt confidence is not based on having answers, but on being open to the questions. We hope you will join us for this exploration.
- Sep 15, 20261h 47m
Relaxed and Awake: The Feldenkrais Method and Somatic Meditation With Dan Clurman
This class combines body-oriented meditation practice with a Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lesson, the brilliant sensory-motor approach to gently and wisely re-educating the neuro-muscular system. Alternating meditation, a Feldenkrais movement lesson and discussion will allow the techniques to complement and empower each other and to enhance mind-body connections and general well-being. Many new and long-time meditators discover that Feldenkrais practices can help them feel greater physical ease and less pain, both in meditation and in everyday activities, by freeing up habitual patterns embedded in the neuromuscular system. For this program, you will need a place to lie down and a chair to sit on. A resource handout will also be available for participants.
- Sep 7, 20261h 56m
A Special Kind of Courage: Reflections on “A Manual for the Awakening Warrior” in the Light of the Dharma Online Event With Joel and Michelle Levey
If you had the opportunity to devote 6 months, full time, to teaching a Dharma-inspired program for 25 special forces soldiers who might someday be in a position to start – or stop – the next world war, what would you teach them? Join Joel & Michelle Levey as they share practices and insights from their new book, A MANUAL FOR THE AWAKENING WARRIOR, revealing a glimpse of their historic, once-secret, Mind-Body-Spirit training program for the U.S. Army Green Berets, supported by Kalu Rinpoche and many other Dharma teachers.
- Sep 7, 20261h 53m
A World of Vulnerable Beings: Skillfully Relating to Our Own Power With Kyira Korrigan
This talk highlights the Buddha’s teaching about harm doing—how to understand it and relate to wisely it in our own life and Buddhist practice. In what ways do we minimize the harm we have done, or exaggerate it? In what ways do we confuse our own distress as others’, or vice versa? In this talk we will cover what the Buddha offered as wisdom in relation to harmdoing, recovery from harm being done to, or by, us and adjustments we can make in our perspectives to have more confidence that our future actions will be harmless to life. We will specifically explore how the perfections of character (Paramitas) can be seen as corrections to our tendencies towards harm-doing.
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