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Zohar Lavie's Dharma Talks
Zohar Lavie
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.
2021-02-25 מודיטה; דרך הסתכלות שמגמישה ופותחת את התודעה ומחברת אותנו לאפשרויות ללא גבול 47:12
Mudita talk in Hebrew
Tovana Insight Meditation :  Lingering in Happiness
2021-02-25 הנחיות ותרגול מונחה מודיטה - שמחה מפרגנת 39:32
Mudita guided in Hebrew
Tovana Insight Meditation :  Lingering in Happiness
2021-02-07 Guided practice and Talk about Ethics 64:22
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - Feb 2021
2021-02-04 Mettā to Sensations 41:10
Gaia House :  Relaxed, Open, Awake
2021-02-04 Day 4 - Instructions: Dukkha and Opening Way of Looking 58:45
Gaia House :  Relaxed, Open, Awake
2021-02-03 Mettā as a Liberating Way of Looking 46:49
Gaia House :  Relaxed, Open, Awake
2021-02-02 Mettā to an Easy Relationship, towards One Self, to a More Neutral Relationship and Out to All Beings. 43:10
Gaia House :  Relaxed, Open, Awake
2021-02-02 Day 2 - Instructions: Expanding and Brightening Attention 59:48
Gaia House :  Relaxed, Open, Awake
2021-02-01 Hindrances 61:01
Gaia House :  Relaxed, Open, Awake
2021-01-31 Opening, Calming, and Soothing with Breath and Body 29:57
Gaia House :  Relaxed, Open, Awake
2021-01-26 תרגול ושיחה; התרגול כתנועה מיטיבה בעולם 59:12
SanghaSeva
2021-01-17 מודיטה - שמחה מפרגנת: שיחה קצרה ותרגול 46:30
SanghaSeva :  Tovana Sitting group
2021-01-16 Equipoise in Challenging Times 68:55
Guided meditation and Dharma Talk
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - Jan 2021
2021-01-09 טיפוח דרכי הסתכלות מיטיבות 34:45
SanghaSeva :  Shabbat Morning with Tovana
2021-01-09 טיפוח דרכי הסתכלות מיטיבות 0:00
SanghaSeva :  Shabbat Morning with Tovana
2021-01-09 תרגול מונחה קלות: דרכי הסתכלות מיטיבות 29:36
SanghaSeva :  Shabbat Morning with Tovana
2021-01-09 תרגול מונחה: הפתחות וטיפוח של דרכי הסתכלות מיטיבות בתרגול 41:26
SanghaSeva :  Shabbat Morning with Tovana
2021-01-03 New Year Reflections and Practice 53:57
About the power of intention
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - Jan 2021
2020-12-26 Exploring Trustworthy Well-being and Happiness 62:24
Guided meditation and talk
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - Dec 2020
2020-12-16 Spreading Mist of Metta 49:55
Gaia House :  Mettā and Insight
2020-12-15 Guided Mettā to Sounds and Sensations 44:58
Bringing the relational field of mettā to sense contact rather than specific beings.
Gaia House :  Mettā and Insight
2020-12-15 Day 4 Instructions - Dukkha Insightful Way of Relating 60:36
Opening and relaxing contraction as a way of expressing an understanding of tanha roots in the dukkha field
Gaia House :  Mettā and Insight
2020-12-14 A Wise Relationship to Dukkha 39:11
Gaia House :  Mettā and Insight
2020-12-13 Guided Mettā to Neutral Relationship 45:17
Spreading mettā to a being from an easy relationship, to self, being from a more neutral relationship and outward to all beings
Gaia House :  Mettā and Insight
2020-12-13 Day 2 Instructions - Getting Comfortable with Discomfort 61:41
Gaia House :  Mettā and Insight
2020-12-12 Possibilties of Mettā and Insight 43:53
Gaia House :  Mettā and Insight
2020-12-11 Meeting Body and Breath with Kindness - Guided Meditation 30:34
A calming and steadying meditation infused with a metta flavour
Gaia House :  Mettā and Insight
2020-12-10 Embodying Intention 59:53
Guided meditation and talk
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - Dec 2020
2020-10-31 Hebrew Day 2 Instructions 48:10
Lessening the contraction that co-arises with a dukkha manifesting push-pull.
SanghaSeva :  Befriending Ourselves, Befriending the World
2020-10-30 מטא לעצמנו, מטא לעולם 46:02
SanghaSeva :  Befriending Ourselves, Befriending the World
2020-10-30 מדיטציה מונחית - התרווחות אל הגוף והנשימה 30:20
SanghaSeva :  Befriending Ourselves, Befriending the World
2020-10-10 Hebrew - Spacious Awareness 56:12
Hebrew Guided Meditation and Meditation Instruction
SanghaSeva
2020-10-09 Hebrew - Perception, Mettā, Freedom 50:57
Hebrew
SanghaSeva
2020-10-03 Joy and Rest As Supports for Viriya 60:29
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - Oct 2020
2020-09-28 Hebrew - Insight To Live By Closing Dharma Talk.mp3 33:44
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva :  Insights to Live By
2020-09-27 Hebrew - Mettā to Sensations 43:46
Metta in Hebrew
SanghaSeva :  Insights to Live By
2020-09-26 Hebrew - 3 Characteristics 48:54
Hebrew Dharma Talk
SanghaSeva :  Insights to Live By
2020-09-25 Hebrew - Guided Metta to Easeful Relationships and Oneself.mp3 40:36
Metta in Hebrew
SanghaSeva :  Insights to Live By
2020-09-25 Hebrew - Day 1 Instructions - Opening to the Pleasant 50:38
Hebrew Meditation Instructions - On Body Awareness
SanghaSeva :  Insights to Live By
2020-09-24 Hebrew - Fabrication - Ways of Looking and The Shaping of Experience 47:27
Hebrew Dharma Talk
SanghaSeva :  Insights to Live By
2020-09-11 התמיכות לויריה - חלק 2 61:05
SanghaSeva :  קבוצת ישיבה אונליין בתובנה
2020-09-05 התמיכות לויריה - חלק 1 60:46
SanghaSeva :  קבוצת ישיבה אונליין בתובנה
2020-08-29 ויריה - אנרגיה, התלהבות ומרץ בתרגול 63:28
SanghaSeva :  קבוצת ישיבה אונליין בתובנה
2020-08-23 Wise And Wholesome Effort 66:05
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - Aug 2020
2020-08-20 Dharma Talk 45:07
Gaia House :  Coming to Life
2020-08-19 Guided Meditation 31:21
Gaia House :  Coming to Life
2020-08-19 Instructions and Guided Meditation 40:50
Gaia House :  Coming to Life
2020-08-17 Guided Meditation 29:32
Gaia House :  Coming to Life
2020-08-15 An Attitude Of Kindness & The Inner Critic 57:03
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - Aug 2020
2020-08-08 Hebrew - Day 3 Instructions - Mettā to All Kinds of Phenomena 60:12
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva :  Mettā and Samādhi
2020-08-06 Hebrew - Guided Mettā to Easy Person, Self and All Beings 44:23
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva :  Mettā and Samādhi
2020-08-06 Hebrew - Day 1 Instructions - Wide Body Awareness And Attending With The Breath 62:02
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva :  Mettā and Samādhi
2020-08-05 Hebrew - Metta and Samadhi 59:33
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.
SanghaSeva :  Mettā and Samādhi
2020-07-30 Gratitude, Generosity, And Wellbeing 61:53
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - July 2020
2020-07-16 Conceit And The Sense Of Self 56:12
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - July 2020
2020-07-04 התהוות מותנית ותחושת העצמי 1:20:04
SanghaSeva :  קבוצת ישיבה אונליין בתובנה
2020-07-01 Beyond the Worldly Winds 57:45
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - July 2020
2020-06-13 שלושת מאפייני החוויה 65:23
Hebrew - Three Characteristics - Guided Meditation and Talk
SanghaSeva :  קבוצת ישיבה אונליין בתובנה
2020-06-12 Practicing and Awakening in the World 36:41
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland :  Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence
2020-06-12 Dana Practice Guidelines 25:19
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland :  Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence
2020-06-11 Day 4 Meditation Instructions - Releasing Dukkha 56:13
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland :  Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence
2020-06-10 Smoothing the Bumpy Ride 47:28
Looking at how dukkha is constructed/fabricated, and finding skilful ease through ways of relating.
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland :  Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence
2020-06-10 Opening to Joy and Difficulty 42:37
Muditā and Karuṇā
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland :  Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence
2020-06-09 Day 2 Meditation Instructions - Openness with the Unpleasant 63:15
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland :  Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence
2020-06-08 Ways of Well-Being 45:57
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland :  Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence
2020-06-08 Guided Stretched Awareness Meditation 39:00
By opening the space of awareness actively we can engender more wellbeing and enjoyable energy into our practice.
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland :  Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence
2020-06-07 Guided Meditation and Walking Instructions 26:31
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland :  Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence
2020-05-29 Dāna - Generosity and Freedom (a talk about/for dana practice) 14:08
Dana talk for participants of the "Waking the Heart, Expanding the World" retreat
Gaia House :  Waking the heart, Expanding the world
2020-05-29 Mettā to the Sensate World 28:20
Sending a welcoming quality of attention (metta) to whatever appears at the sense doors.
Gaia House :  Waking the heart, Expanding the world
2020-05-28 Awakening the Heart 48:41
Gaia House :  Waking the heart, Expanding the world
2020-05-27 Compassion and Tenderness 42:18
Guided meditation
Gaia House :  Waking the heart, Expanding the world
2020-05-27 Day 2 - Meditation Instructions - Vedanā as a way of looking 29:25
Practicing opening contraction by staying at contact with vedana.
Gaia House :  Waking the heart, Expanding the world
2020-05-26 Dukkha, Construction, and Release 46:16
Gaia House :  Waking the heart, Expanding the world
2020-05-25 Opening and Steadying 44:20
Guided Meditation
Gaia House :  Waking the heart, Expanding the world
2020-05-25 Opening Talk - Creating the Retreat Together 33:37
Gaia House :  Waking the heart, Expanding the world
2020-05-17 Playing with Perception in Ways that Free 34:05
London Insight Meditation :  Cultivating a Wise and Responsive Heart
2020-05-16 שיחת דהרמה: תשומת לב, תפישה ואפשרויות לחופש 29:13
Hebrew Dharma Talk - Attention, Perception, Possibility
SanghaSeva :  חצי יום תרגול מטא וריקות
2020-05-16 מדיטציה מונחית 2 37:33
Hebrew - 2nd Guided Meditation
SanghaSeva :  חצי יום תרגול מטא וריקות
2020-05-16 שיחת פתיחה ומדיטציה מונחית 1 49:57
Hebrew - Opening Talk and Guided Meditation
SanghaSeva :  חצי יום תרגול מטא וריקות
2020-05-08 Seeing All Things With Kindness (with Chanting at the Beginning) 43:55
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 :  Living Fearlessly With Change - Closing Retreat
2020-05-08 Instructions Day 3 - Anicca as a Way of Looking 47:20
Gaia House :  Living Fearlessly With Change - Closing Retreat
2020-05-07 Guided Compassion with Chanting at the Beginning 43:52
A compassion meditation, starting with 7 minutes of a Guanyin chant (using the lovely words and tune offered by Caroline Jones).
Gaia House :  Living Fearlessly With Change - Closing Retreat
2020-05-07 Meditation is Deep Listening 35:22
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.
Gaia House :  Living Fearlessly With Change - Closing Retreat
2020-05-06 Instructions Day 1 - Open and Steady 44:13
Gaia House :  Living Fearlessly With Change - Closing Retreat
2020-04-25 Mettā to Phenomena 44:53
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva :  Opening, Steadying, Allowing
2020-04-24 Ways of Looking, Hindrances, and the Transformation of Dukkha 41:09
SanghaSeva :  Opening, Steadying, Allowing
2020-04-24 Day 1 Meditation Instructions - Opening Body and Welcoming Breath 28:47
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva :  Opening, Steadying, Allowing
2020-04-18 Creativity and Balance - Working with Fabrication 64:51
Guided Meditation and Talk, given at Gaia House's Online Dharma Hall.
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall
2020-04-15 Hebrew - Mettā and Emptiness in the World 28:05
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 :  Metta and Emptiness - Online
2020-04-14 Hebrew - Day 4 Instructions - Anatta 60:17
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva :  Metta and Emptiness - Online
2020-04-13 Hebrew - Undoing - Lessening Fabrication 41:44
Talk in Hebrew: Understanding how experience is fabricated leads us towards skilful ways of fabricating less dukkha, self-identity, and increasing well-being.
SanghaSeva :  Metta and Emptiness - Online
2020-04-13 Hebrew - Metta To Benefactor, Difficult Relationship, And All Beings 42:26
Guided Metta Meditation in Hebrew
SanghaSeva :  Metta and Emptiness - Online
2020-04-12 Hebrew - Day 2 Instructions - Relax Contraction in the Body 50:33
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva :  Metta and Emptiness - Online
2020-04-11 Hebrew - What is Metta? 46:40
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 :  Metta and Emptiness - Online
2020-04-11 Hebrew - Metta To Self, Easy And World 37:53
Guided Metta meditation in Hebrew
SanghaSeva :  Metta and Emptiness - Online
2020-03-19 Dharma as a Refuge in the time of Coronavirus 39:20
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 Response to Coronavirus
2020-03-14 Coronavirus and the support of the Dharma - Part 2 30:05
A guided meditation to nourish and support us through humanity’s journey through the coronavirus pandemic.
SanghaSeva :  A Response to Coronavirus
2020-03-14 Coronavirus and the support of the Dharma - Part 1 31:38
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 :  A Response to Coronavirus
2019-10-11 Metta and Emptiness 58:32
SanghaSeva :  Metta and Emptiness 2019
2019-09-07 Dharma Talk - Unshakeable Tenderness 56:19
Gaia House :  The Four Immeasurables

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