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Practices for Troubled Times

On February 25, 2022, Lama Liz Monson offered a message regarding the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. In it, she mentioned three practices that can help during this world crisis and any time of trouble. Natural Dharma Fellowship would like to offer recordings of these practices which can be beneficial in these times of collective struggle.

Monday Night Meditation Recordings

Guided meditation, a Dharma talk, and time for discussion offered by Natural Dharma Fellowship and Wonderwell Mountain Refuge. Open to everyone—please join us for inspiration, practice, and community.

Tuesday Night Teachings

Guided meditation, a Dharma talk, and time for discussion. Open to everyone—please join us for inspiration, practice, and community.

Dharma Sunday Recordings

Led by both senior NDF Dharma Teachers and by visiting teachers, weekly sessions to gather for guided meditation, Dharma teachings, Q&A, and contemplation. Everyone is invited.

2020-06 Divine Feminine Teachings with Lama Liz Monson

Lama Liz’s teachings and guided meditations on cultivating the enlightened energies of the female Buddhas, Dakinis, Protectresses, and teachers of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

Medicine Buddha Practice, with Lama Willa Miller

At this unprecedented time of global pandemic, Medicine Buddha can become our patron saint too, reminding us of the power of our daily prayers and heartfelt compassion to support those who are facing sickness and loss.

Selected Topics from Dharma Sundays

The following audio files are taken from Dharma Sundays in late 2017 through 2018. They are teachings taken from two different series on The Seven Factors of Enlightenment and Ten Dharma Activities.

Prajna and Contemplation — Lama Liz Monson

These talks and meditations explore this process, helping us to learn more and more how to bring the whole of our being to our path.

Fierce Compassion: Keeping an Open Heart in Troubled Times

In this one-day retreat, we explored what it means to transform adversity into awakening; how to keep our hearts open when fear and aggression seem to dominate the discourses around us.

Meditation with Emotions — Lama Liz Monson

In this talk, Meditation with Emotions, Lopon Liz explores the beneficial power of metabolizing difficult emotions through the medium of meditating on sensations arising, dwelling, and dissolving within the body.

Four Dharmas of Gampopa — Lama Liz Monson

The prayer entitled the Four Dharmas of Gampopa brings together the teachings of sutra and tantra in a pithy description of the path to enlightenment in a single lifetime.

Guided Meditation Cultivating Self-Love — Lama Liz Monson

This twenty-minute guided meditation combines a deep grounding and connecting to the earth meditation with recalling a caring moment and receiving love, care, and acceptance into every part of our body and mind.

NDF Prayer Book

Natural Dharma Fellowship has a book of prayers most frequently used during our retreats and gatherings. Compiled below are audio versions of these prayers.

Refuge Tree Meditation — Lama Willa Miller

In this meditation session, Lama Willa guides us through a visualization of the refuge tree, the flow of unconditional love of our benefactors, and letting go into our innate wisdom.

Meeting Challenge and Pain as a Bodhisattva — Lama Willa Miller

In her first Tuesday night talk after the 2016 election, Lama Willa Miller discusses what we can learn from the way Bodhisattvas such as Chenrezig meet life’s challenges. What can we learn from falling apart?

Enthusiasm — Lama Liz Monson

In this Dharma talk, Lama Liz Monson explores the sixth of the seven Aryan qualities, the qualities of the Noble Person, the quality of enthusiasm. Enthusiasm in the Buddhist tradition points to a transformation in how we approach the mundane activities of our daily lives.

Earth Body Shamatha Meditation — Lama Liz Monson

In this meditation session, Lama Liz Monson leads us though an Earth Body Shamatha meditation followed by chanting the mantra of Tara.

Subtle Body Meditation and Teaching — Lama Willa Miller

Lama Willa Miller guides us through a meditation and then gives a Dharma talk on the subtle body in Tibetan Buddhism.

Gratitude as a Life Practice — Lama Willa Miller

A short series on the practice of gratitude.