Best Ndf Podcasts (2026)

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Forest Teachings, Part Five: The Living Light with Lama Liz 1:49:43

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On this Dharma Sunday, and as we prepare to step into the New Year, we will explore the power of light to remind us of who we really are, and to return us to an immersion in loving awareness as a source for renewed activity and care in the world. Join Lama Liz for this fifth installation of the Forest Teachings, a series of offerings exploring diff…

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Uncovering the Meaning of the Refuge Prayer with Lama Gursam 1:48:41

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Natural Dharma Fellowship’s Dharma Sundays are donation-based gatherings open to all, offering a wide range of topics. Led by highly trained NDF Dharma and guest teachers, these live, interactive sessions include guided meditation, teachings, and time for questions and discussion. Please join us to settle into the support of sangha and the joy of p…

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Luminous Darkness: Awakening to the Wisdom of Not Knowing With Lama Willa 1:44:30

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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, qu…

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The Roots of Freedom with JD Doyle 1:46:36

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Freedom is part of our practice. We cultivate the roots of our practice to remind ourselves and each other that this is the best time to practice. Roots are the foundation that ground plants in the soil. So too, as we ground ourselves with the source of freedom that our Buddhist practice offers, we embody the underlying support that allows us to be…

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Forest Teachings, Part Four: Meditation as Deep Ecology with Lama Liz 1:49:14

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This Dharma Sunday explores part IV of Forest Teachings. Join us as we explore the intersection between meditation on the nature of mind through the lens of deep ecology in practice. Such a merging invites us to recover our forgotten intimacy with the living world. Deep ecology has long called for a shift in consciousness, while meditation enacts s…

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90. Career by Curiosity: Satu Santala on Climate Leadership at the NDF 39:59

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How does a year in an Ethiopian village at age 22 shape a career leading international climate finance? In this episode, Satu Santala, Managing Director of the Nordic Development Fund (NDF), shares her unplanned journey from NGO work through diplomacy and the World Bank Board to her current role.Discover what makes NDF unique in the climate finance…

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Preparing for Dark Retreat: The Primordial Spaces of the Body with Lama Karma 1:57:12

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Darkness practice is one of the most powerful methods for stripping away the conceptual veils covering our luminous buddha nature. Practiced in many spiritual traditions across the world, dark retreat is a deeply cherished tradition in a number of Tibetan Buddhist lineages surviving today. We will introduce some aspects of darkness practice, with a…

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Feeling Our Way to Freedom: Cultivating Embodied Wisdom with Kyira Korrigan 1:44:01

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This Dharma Sunday will explore Rupa-Bhavana, the cultivation of embodiment. This practice, one of the five cultivation categories taught by the Buddha, focuses on techniques to develop greater discernment, capacity, and balanced sensitivity regarding our felt experience.By Natural Dharma Fellowship

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The Art of Savoring: The Overlooked Secret of a Wakeful Life with Lama Willa Blythe Baker 1:27:10

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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, qu…

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COP30: All eyes on global climate goals 13:09

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The fourth episode of Nordic x Climate Talks focuses on the 30th UN Climate Conference. The episode will focus on this year’s COP’s main themes and will touch upon the key role of the Nordic countries in the process and the importance of Nordic collaboration to achieve global climate goals. In this episode, Mattias Frumerie, Climate Ambassador and …

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Forest Teachings Part III: Breathing with Reverence with Lama Liz Monson 1:49:33

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On this hybrid Dharma Sunday, we will continue exploring what it means to cultivate our innate capacity to relax into beingness with the energies of the phenomenal world. How we approach a renewed engagement with the more-than-human world can have a significant effect on our recognition and embodiment of innate inseparability. Through what kinds of…

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89. Inside Humanitarian Recruitment at the UN with Liliana Nieves Paez 37:04

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As the UN marks 80 years of service, Liliana Nieves shares what it really takes to build effective humanitarian teams. From recruiting during a cholera outbreak in South Sudan to achieving gender parity at UN headquarters, she reveals:✅ Why emotional intelligence matters as much as technical skills✅ How to tackle unconscious bias in hiring✅ The dir…

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Complementary Roles in Meditation: Samatha and Vipassana with Doug Veehof 1:38:49

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In his sublime meditation manual Mahamudra the Ocean of Definitive Meaning, the Ninth Karmapa briefly describes a four-step analysis for cutting through the illusion of a separate external reality presenting itself to sense perception. This session will examine the four steps and draw on insights from current cognitive philosophy and physics to off…

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Waking Down: An Embodied Path to Freedom with Lama Willa 1:35:58

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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, qu…

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Trauma-Sensitive Meditation with Sumi Loundon Kim 1:49:27

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In this Dharma Sunday, we’ll learn strategies for meditating so that our practice doesn’t reactivate trauma symptoms, based on David Trelevean’s groundbreaking book Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness. This session will be helpful both for trauma survivors and for anyone experiencing dysregulation, overwhelm, disorientation, or a loss of agency. The instr…

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Forest Teachings, Part II: What the Trees Know with Lama Liz 1:59:47

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This Dharma Sunday session begins with a Refuge Prayer and a guided meditation that grounds the body and expands into open awareness. Lama Liz then dives into the core question: How do we return to our true nature? She challenges the modern materialist mentality and explores how to move beyond the contracted "self" to access a vaster field of inter…

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After I Escaped from Plato's Cave, I Thought I'd Never Go Back: Initiation, Buddhist and Otherwise with Lama Karma 1:53:37

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The “Four Empowerments” characterize the essence of the tantric Buddhist path. We will explore the internal structure of these four initiations and how we can relate with them as practitioners. Central to this exploration is the idea that initiation is an organic part of human experience. What seems esoteric, foreign, and unknown, is from another p…

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Mycelial Wisdom, Part IV: Becoming a Disciple of Gaia with Lama Willa 1:51:33

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The Dharma Sunday session begins with guided meditation practices followed by a teaching on eco-Dharma and the concept of becoming a disciple of Gaia. Lama Willa explores how environmental issues have become a critical focus in the present moment and proposed expanding the traditional Buddhist concept of taking refuge to include Gaia as a teacher. …

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Relaxed and Awake: The Feldenkrais Method and Somatic Meditation with Dan Clurman 1:57:13

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This Dharma Sunday teaching 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 …

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Forest Teachings, Part I: What the River Knows with Lama Liz 1:50:18

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This session features a deep dive into the meaning of Refuge—understanding our own awakened heart as the ultimate source of peace. Lama Liz then guides a powerful meditation practice, moving from grounding the body to cultivating open awareness and interconnectedness. Following the meditation, she introduces her "Forest Teachings" series, exploring…

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Buddhist Art for Practitioners and Artists: Guided Tour of an Art Exhibition - Damchö 2:05:25

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This creative and inspirational Dharma Sunday will begin with an introduction to Buddhist art that locates Buddhist images within a contemplative practice. The teachings will seek to move artists and practitioners towards basic visual literacy. This will be followed by a guided tour – both online and onsite – of an exhibition of earth-based Buddhis…

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Mycelial Wisdom Part III: The Myth of Transcendence with Lama Willa and Zoe Morris 1:47:29

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In this Dharma Sunday teaching, the Third of Four teachings on "Mycelial Wisdom", Lama Willa Blythe Baker, founder of Natural Dharma Fellowship, and visiting teacher, Zoe Logan Morris, discuss The Myth of Transcendence. Using the metaphor of a mycelial network—the "wood wide web"—the teaching suggests that spiritual awakening isn't a "vertical exit…

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Relaxed and Awake: The Feldenkrais Method and Somatic Meditation with Dan Clurman 1:23:26

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This Dharma Sunday teaching 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 …

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The Five Buddha Families: Understanding the Alchemy of Awareness with Zoe Morris 1:49:16

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In this Dharma Sunday teaching we will be exploring the ways that our personalities and styles of interaction By recognizing our own patterns of behavior and styles of manifesting in the world, we can use that awareness to go beyond judgment which keep us bound to cycles and limited perspective in our lives; and thus touch the insight of loving per…

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Mycelial Wisdom, Part II: Dissolving the Illusion of Separateness with Lama Willa 1:48:12

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In this Dharma Sunday teaching, the Second of Four teachings on "Mycelial Wisdom", Lama Willa Blythe Baker, founder of Natural Dharma Fellowship, explores the profound concept of "Anatman" (no-self). The central teaching expands on "mycelial wisdom," drawing parallels between extensive, hidden mycelial networks (described as "the neurological netwo…

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The Four Dharmas of Gampopa with Zoe Morris 1:54:47

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Natural Dharma Fellowship’s Dharma Sundays are donation-based gatherings open to all, offering a wide range of topics. Led by highly trained NDF Dharma and guest teachers, these live, interactive sessions include guided meditation, teachings, and time for questions and discussion. Please join us to settle into the support of sangha and the joy of p…

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The Incarcerating Self - Buddhadasa's “The Prison of Life,” Part 2 with Kyira Korrigan 2:04:55

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In this two-part class, participants will be invited to study and reflect on a short teaching by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu entitled “The Prison of Life” (free download). Just as prisons are rationalized as necessary containment for those whose criminal convictions make them untrustworthy or undeserving of freedom, we rationalize our self-created imprisonm…

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The Incarcerating Self - Buddhadasa’s “The Prison of Life,” Part 1 with Kyira Korrigan 1:41:07

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n this two-part class, participants will be invited to study and reflect on a short teaching by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu entitled “The Prison of Life” (free download). Just as prisons are rationalized as necessary containment for those whose criminal convictions make them untrustworthy or undeserving of freedom, we rationalize our self-created imprisonme…

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Finding Wholeness in Fragmentation: Remembering Who We Really Are with Lama Liz 1:55:19

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We will explore how remembering who we really are expands us beyond the experiences of fragmentation, distress, overwhelm, and fear that may threaten to overwhelm us. What would it mean to realize that this “self” can hold the fullness of our human experience, from the most challenging encounters to the most beautiful? When we remember our innate c…

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Mycelial Wisdom, Part I: Dismantling the Illusion of "I" with Lama Willa 1:45:11

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In this Dharma Sunday teaching, the First of Four teachings on "Mycelial Wisdom", Lama Willa Blythe Baker, founder of Natural Dharma Fellowship, explores the profound concept of interdependence (Pratitya Samudpada). Lama Willa discusses her multi-year exploration of the plant world as a source of wisdom, highlighting how mycelial networks serve as …

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Working with What's Here with Zoe Morris 1:45:49

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Instead of chasing the future, or dwelling in the past; on the Buddhist path, we are given the opportunity, through meditation, to work with what’s here right now. There is no path apart from our very own footsteps, no rhythm to strive for apart from our natural breath and heartbeat. While things might not always be going our way, the path of medit…

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The Skillful Interfusion of Refuge, Bodhichitta & Tonglen: Inspirations from Shabkar & the Holy Book of Nature with Joel Levey 1:43:02

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Drawing inspiration from the great yogi Shabkar and the “holy book of nature” this session will expand our heart-mind into the vastness of interbeing through the dynamic interfusion of Refuge, Bodhichitta, & Tonglen. The profound practices of Refuge, Bodhichitta, and Tonglen open our hearts and expand our view to glimpse and access boundless resour…

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Cultivating Courage and Compassion in a Tumultuous World with Olivia Hoblitzelle 1:31:24

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There is no doubt that we are living in turbulent times and that we’ll continue to see rapid change and heightened uncertainty in the world. We may be experiencing moments of anxiety, dread, or fear – all part of our humanness — but the question is how to respond to these unsettling influences that threaten our equanimity. The emphasis of our time …

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Sympathy for the Devil: Loving the Shadow into Freedom with Lama Willa 1:37:00

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Dharma Sundays with Natural Dharma Fellowship take place most Sundays. These sessions, led by highly trained NDF Dharma and guest teachers, include guided meditation, teachings, and time for discussions. A wide range of topics are offered at the discretion of the teacher.By Natural Dharma Fellowship

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Illumination Song of the Heart: Nyoshul Khenpo's Natural Great Peace with Camille Hykes 1:49:08

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Amid waves of personal and collective suffering and heartbreak, peace can feel far away for so many of us. Yogis, saints, ancestors, sages through millennia have given voice to their understanding of peace. But how can we find genuine peace? How can we find it for real in our own life? After all, if we merely repeat the words of others, how can we …

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Love on Every Breath: The Profound Interfusion of Refuge & Tonglen with Joel and Michelle Levey 1:26:10

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Each of the 21,600 breaths you breathe each day can be an affirmation of our interbeing, a source of spiritual inspiration and engagement as we receive and radiate boundless blessings for ourselves and all beings. This session will explore the profound interfusion of refuge and mentor practice with the radical transformational practice of Tonglen. …

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Nonjudgmental Awareness with Zoe Morris 1:49:33

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Dharma Sundays with Natural Dharma Fellowship take place most Sundays. These sessions, led by highly trained NDF Dharma and guest teachers, include guided meditation, teachings, and time for discussions. A wide range of topics are offered at the discretion of the teacher.By Natural Dharma Fellowship

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Green Tara and Greening With Lama Liz Monson 1:46:42

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Dharma Sundays with Natural Dharma Fellowship take place most Sundays. These sessions, led by highly trained NDF Dharma and guest teachers, include guided meditation, teachings, and time for discussions. A wide range of topics are offered at the discretion of the teacher.By Natural Dharma Fellowship

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The Art of Whelm: Finding Balance in an Over-stimulated World with Lama Willa 1:31:27

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Dharma Sundays with Natural Dharma Fellowship take place most Sundays. These sessions, led by highly trained NDF Dharma and guest teachers, include guided meditation, teachings, and time for discussions. A wide range of topics are offered at the discretion of the teacher.By Natural Dharma Fellowship

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Tonglen: The practice of Taking and Sending With Zoe Logan Morris 1:45:08

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Tonglen, or the practice of Taking and Sending, is one of the seven points of mind training that was developed by the Tibetan Kadampa master Chekhawa Yeshe Dorje in the 12th century. The purpose of this practice is two-fold. It gives us practical means to take on our experiences on the path so our suffering can become a source of compassion, wisdom…

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Entering the Unseen – The Practice of an Open Question with Lama Liz Monson 1:58:07

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What can we do when it feels as if not only our personal sense of opening on the path but also the circumstances unfolding in the seemingly outer world have brought us to a place of anxiety, depression, rage, or another challenging emotional experience? How do we find a way forward into clarity, openness, trust, and liberation? On this Dharma Sunda…

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Yunmen’s Cake: Another Useless “Zen” Tale With Kōtatsu John Bailes 1:51:36

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Initially a guided meditation that turns formless, loosening the bonds of the “ghost cave” of discursive thought. And then exploring an ancient Zen skit: stopping, looking, tasting the cake of what some call “just this.” No longer running about looking for what is our “birthright.” Free to act as we are. “I sleep when I’m tired and I eat when I am …

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Return to Source: Coming Home to Ancestral Wisdom with Lama Willa 1:20:51

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Dharma Sundays with Natural Dharma Fellowship take place most Sundays. These sessions, led by highly trained NDF Dharma and guest teachers, include guided meditation, teachings, and time for discussions. A wide range of topics are offered at the discretion of the teacher.By Natural Dharma Fellowship

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The Foundations of Practice: The Four Thoughts That Turn the Mind With Zoe Logan Morris 1:45:08

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Dharma Sundays with Natural Dharma Fellowship take place most Sundays. These sessions, led by highly trained NDF Dharma and guest teachers, include guided meditation, teachings, and time for discussions. A wide range of topics are offered at the discretion of the teacher.By Natural Dharma Fellowship

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Embodying Bodhichitta With Lama Karma Justin Wall 1:56:21

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Bodhichitta, or the wish to awaken the Buddha Nature of oneself and all beings, is the foundation of Mahayana Buddhist theory and practice. How does this translate into the context of Buddhist Yoga, and how can we discover the body as bodhichitta itself? We will explore the various dimensions of bodhichitta as presented in the Mahayana context, and…

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Manifesting Our Mandala: Radiating the Energies of Awareness With Lama Liz Monson 2:51:54

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Within each of us resides “an ancient wilderness that does not change.” Occasionally, we wander into this untrammeled brilliance of our being, amazed with wonder, humbled with love. Join Lama Liz as we explore how cultivating this bright field of inner being can bring us into contact with who we really are and why we are here. Another way to descri…

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Feeling Wisdom: How What We Resist Is the Key to Our Freedom With Lama Willa Blythe Baker 1:44:44

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Dharma Sundays with Natural Dharma Fellowship take place most Sundays. These sessions, led by highly trained NDF Dharma and guest teachers, include guided meditation, teachings, and time for discussions. A wide range of topics are offered at the discretion of the teacher.By Natural Dharma Fellowship

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Cultivating a Fearless Heart in an Uncertain World With Olivia Hoblitzelle 1:50:14

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There is no doubt that we are living in turbulent times and that we’ll continue to see rapid change and heightened uncertainty in the world. We may be experiencing moments of anxiety, dread, or fearall part of our humanness — but the question is how to respond to these unsettling influences that threaten our equanimity. The emphasis of our time tod…

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Calm Abiding Meditation With Lama Gursam 2:09:38

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Calm abiding practice is the foundation of the path of meditation. It is beneficial for the health of our minds and our bodies. In this session, we will study and practice calm abiding, and participants will have the opportunity to ask questions to clarify their practice. We practice calm abiding on a daily basis to connect more deeply with ourselv…

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Radiant Receptivity With Joel and Michelle Levey 2:01:58

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Join us for meditation as we explore the dynamic interfusion of “radiance” and “receptivity.” These profound and essential qualities are at play in a myriad of illuminating meditation practices within the Vajrayana and Dzogchen traditions. Blending mindfulness, bodhichitta, refuge, dedication, and the three bodies of enlightened body, speech, and m…