Online teachings – Samita ASBL

iSangha daily meditations and Dhamma talks

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The Buddha taught us that everything is impermanent, changing, and unreliable. Tilorien Monastery set up its iSangha (on Zoom) to meet the shifting, uncertain circumstances the Covid-19 pandemic brought so many of us across the globe as we moved into lockdown. Now, years after the pandemic, meeting in person is still not possible for many. Regardless, we are still able to meditate and discuss the Dhamma together with our friends on the path.

We can take this opportunity to put the Buddha’s teachings into action and help each other to deal with the stress and uncertainty of life; support each other, especially the vulnerable, with our kind deeds, and make time for meditation, listening to Dhamma teachings and joining together with spiritual friends online. Times like these can be the most valuable for our growth in the Dhamma and cultivation of the factors of the noble eightfold path, and we warmly invite you to join us in the Tilorien iSangha.

If you want a good start or end of the day, we hope our daily meditation sessions at 6.00 and at 18.00 (mo, we, fr, sa) will give you a supportive framework, and likewise that the rest of our program benefits your practice, whether you are just dropping in or are an iSangha regular. We also organize occasional Dhamma talks and other events online.

Programme:

The times given below are local to Belgium (CE(S)T). On days that no facilitator is listed, we meditate together in silence.

Everyone is welcome!

For those who would like to follow the morning and evening chanting, our chanting book is available for download. You can just sit and listen to the chantings or participate if you like.

For a link to the Zoom sessions please send a message through our contact form and select “iSangha access” as the subject.

You can view past iSangha guest talks on Samita ASBL’s YouTube channel.

And if you like to install the iSangha app on your phone, please go to https://mbsr.bplaced.net/isangha/

We look forward to meeting you!

Dhamma Contemplation Group

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The Dhamma Contemplation Group Practice on Mondays from 19.30 – 21.00 CE(S)T provides an accessible doorway into the rich vein of Buddha´s wisdom. Just as we can experience the intimate and insightful dialogue with a good friend or teacher, we can do so with the Buddha via his legacy in a remarkably direct way: human to human, in direct contact with the wisdom texts.

Every week, we explore a new Dhamma Text, and one of us is the Facilitator of the session. From time to time, a trained Insight Dialogue Facilitator visits and guides us on a DC Session. The weekly Facilitator selects the Text, which is a wonderful opportunity to search for a special Sutta, a Sutta that the Facilitator wishes to share with the DC Group.

Each DC Session lasts 90 minutes: we start and finish in silence. Then, we follow the 5 Stages of Practice, which support the text exploration and allow us to go deeper into the many layers of each Dhamma Text. The DC Sessions help us to develop meditative qualities like intuitive awareness, deep listening, wholesome speech, inner confidence, trust in the teachings as well as gratitude, loving kindness, empathy, joy, patience, and stillness. In a nutshell, we truly become Kalyanamittas, Spiritual Friends. Please, know more about the DC Practice Phases here: https://insightdialogue.org/relational-practices/dharma-contemplation/practice-phases/

Like any other skill or practice, it is necessary to attend the DC Sessions regularly in order to appreciate and deeply value its beneficial effects and positive results in our lives. For example, it is an excellent way to learn and study the Suttas in shared contemplation. We learn so much from each other´s perspectives and life experiences. Then, the Sutta stays in our hearts at least for a week, perhaps longer or for our entire lives!

You are most welcome to join us, we are a small and very international DC Group, and the DC Sessions are in English. If you wish to participate, please fill in this short contact form and select “Dhamma Contemplation Group” as the subject

VRChat teachings

For those of you who are familiar with Virtual Reality and would like to join Ven. Vimala, for a weekly teaching in VRChat, this is the space for you! Although the experience is best with a headset, VRChat offers possibilities to follow along on PC or mobile, too.

Ven. Vimala (VRChat name: Asoka) will teach every Thursday from 18:00 to 19:00 at a Buddhist temple in VRChat in February and March 2026. The series will be about “Buddhism and AI”.

The Artificial Buddha – A Dhamma talk and guided meditation around the theme of AI to answer the question: How do we construct the world in our own mind, and how is this relevant in this new era of AI technology?

To join, go into VRChat, click on the Groups tab at the bottom of your left-hand menu. Join the Mindfulness VR group by searching for “mindfulnessvr” in one word without spaces and clicking Join.

After joining, click on the Social tab at the bottom, and you will see a tab on the left called “Group Activity”. Click on that, and when the session has started, you can join from there.

There is also a Discord Server for this group where you can ask questions if you have technical difficulties, see the entire events calendar or just join in the discussions: https://discord.gg/3h2925mE