The greatest gift is the
Alan Lewis's Dharma Talks
at Gaia House
Alan Lewis
Alan Lewis has been engaging in spiritual inquiry and meditation practice since the 1970s. He spent 17 years as a Theravadin Buddhist monk and disrobed in December 2000. He now runs an IT business in Devon with his wife Vanessa, with whom he built the Gaia House website and Zen Moments.org. He teaches meditation and spiritual enquiry through his website alanlewis.org
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2014-02-02
A Brief Closing Talk with Metta and Some Chanting
2022-03-19
Afternoon Pt 1 – Noticing the Space Within Which Things Arise
2022-03-18
Afternoon Pt 2 - Guided Meditation and Teachings
2022-03-20
Afternoon Pt 2 - Guided Metta Meditation
2025-08-10
Afternoon Reflections & Guided Meditation
2009-01-31
Anxiety, Authenticity and Awareness
2019-01-19
Chanting (Namo Chant)
2022-03-21
Closing Session - Pt 1
2023-05-21
Closing Session for the Retreat
2016-01-23
Developing the Compassionate Heart
2022-03-19
Early Morning - Guided Meditation
2022-03-18
Early Morning Guided Meditation
2023-05-17
Even Strong Feelings Change
2022-03-18
Evening - Posture, Energy, Sleepiness, Silent Sit.
2018-01-19
Facing imperfection
2025-08-08
Four Moments of Insight
2026-02-07
Guidance on Meditation Posture, and Walking Meditation Instructions
2022-03-20
Guided Early Morning Meditation
2022-03-21
Guided Early Morning Meditation
2019-01-20
Guided Meditation
2023-05-17
Guided Meditation
2024-06-01
Guided Meditation
2018-01-19
Guided Meditation and Instructions on Walking Meditation
2015-02-01
Inner Listening
2016-01-21
Introductory Talk
2011-01-28
Introductory Talk on Meditation, and Guided Meditation
2019-01-18
Investigation and Release
2012-12-09
It's OK To Be Who You Are
2015-02-02
Letting Go - A Practice for a Lifetime
2024-06-02
Letting Go of the Do-er
2019-01-20
Loving Kindness Towards Oneself - Talk & Guided Meditation
2016-01-23
Metta Meditation - Compassion for Ourselves
2022-03-20
Morning Pt 1 - Reflections
2022-03-18
Morning Pt 2 - Working with the Churning Mind
2022-03-19
Morning Pt 2 – Being Worthy of Love
2025-08-08
Morning Reflections & Guided Meditation
2011-01-30
No Fixed Position (short closing talk)
2014-01-31
Opening Talk
2015-01-31
Opening Talk
2012-12-07
Opening Talk - The Fickle Mind
2009-01-30
Opening Talk for Anxiety, Authenticity and Awareness retreat
2024-05-31
Opening Talk for the Retreat
2026-02-06
Opening Talk for the Retreat
2019-01-18
Reading from the Noble Quest Sutta
2023-05-19
Reclaiming Awareness
2016-01-24
Short Closing Blessing
2011-01-29
Some Thoughts on Major Life Change
2011-01-29
Spaciousness and Contraction
2024-06-01
The Attitude of Non-Resistance
2012-12-08
The Capacity to Be with What Is
2017-04-07
The Changing Nature of Experience
2016-01-22
The Compassionate Disposition
2014-02-01
The Compassionate Space
2022-03-17
Welcome, Lightly Guided Meditation, Introductory Teachings
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2009-01-30
Anxiety, Authenticity and Awareness
2011-01-28
Uncertainty
2012-12-07
Who Do You Think You Are?
2014-01-31
Uncertainty
2015-01-31
Inner Listening
2016-01-21
Cultivating Clarity and Compassion
2017-04-06
Cultivating Clarity and Compassion
2018-01-17
Making Peace with the Imperfect
2019-01-17
Inquiring into the Nature of Experience
2022-03-17
Settling with What Is
2023-05-16
Exploring What Is
2024-05-31
Knowledge From the Present Moment
2025-08-07
Insight Meditation - Relaxing into Presence
2026-02-06
Settling With What Is
2011-01-29
Spaciousness and Contraction
48:30
How our practice of connecting with and feeling our own stress strengthens our capacity to contain it. When we can contain it without contracting, we can access creative intelligence and compassion.
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Uncertainty
