Dharma talks given by Dharmacharya Michael Ciborski via Zoom for the Spring 2021 Retreat, "Creating Heartfelt Spaciousness."

Michael speaks to the challenges of remaining connected as a sangha via remote means, and the practices that nourish and maintain our capacity for joy and compassion when we are exposed to so much suffering in the world besides our own suffering.

Open Way Spring 2021 Retreat Michael Introduction And Guided Meditation Friday April 30

Fouth Mindfullness Training: Theresa McGeary

Guided meditations and Dharma Talks from "Cultivating a Truly Peaceful Heart," held on Zoom April 29-May 1, 2022, by Open Way Sanghas of Montana. Michael Ciborski was our teacher.

Guided Meditation: The Three Earth Touchings

Dharmacharya Greg Grallo offers a talk at Open Way Sangha on Nov 1, 2022 exploring the "Discourse on Knowing the Better Way to Catch a Snake" and the Eight Consciousnesses.

Open Way Sangha Tuesday Night Talks

Walking The Path Of Freedom Nov 1, 2022

Dharmacharya Greg Grallo explores the Discourse on Knowing the Better Way to Live Alone. He uses the practices of open awareness, letting go, and allowing during meditation to engage with difficulties and suffering.

Open Way Sangha Tuesday Dharma Talks

Going Inside 7 Feb 2023 Greg Grallo OWMC

Tuesday Night Practice Talks

Equanimity   Rightsizing Bob Allgier Practice Talk 14 March 2023

A talk on the Fourth Mindfulness Training, Loving Speech & Deep Listening, by Abraham Jenson, given at Be Here Now on Monday April 3, 2023.

4th Mindfulness Training, Abraham Jenson, April 2023

Plum Village Dharma Teacher Michael Ciborski gave four dharma talks at the Spring 2023 Open Way Montana Retreat, held May 4-7 at the Flathead Lutheran Bible Camp. The retreat theme was "Healing with Inner Stability and Freedom."

Central to these talks was the image of "The Two Arms of the Practice" -- to hug our inner selves, we must use two arms, one to recognize and transform suffering, and the other to cultivate and experience joy.

Sunday May 7, 2023 talk by Michael Ciborski on practicing the awareness of Interbeing

Saturday May 6, 2023 talk by Michael Ciborski on watering the seeds of joy and nourishment

Thursday May 4, 2023 talk by Michael Ciborski introducing "The Two Arms of the Practice"

Open Way Tuesday Practice Talks

Nourishing a Mindful Garden

Nourishing A Mindful Garden, Bob Allgier

Dharmacharya Greg Grallo offers a talk exploring the Seven Factors of Awakening as a means to reconnect and reengage with life. The Seven Factors of Awakening are:
1. Mindfulness
2. Investigation
3. Energy
4. Joy
5. Relaxation/tranquility
6. Concentration
7. Equanimity

Open Way Tuesday Night Dharma Talks

Reengagement And Reconnection 5 Sept 2023

Plum Village Dharma Teacher Barbara Newell offers two talks during the Open Way Montana Fall Retreat, held at Flathead Lake on September 20-23, 2023. Theme of the retreat was "Present Moment, Wonderful Moment." In them she addresses how to practice with fear and anxiety over our current lives.

ShurePlus MOTIV

Barbara Newell Open Way Retreat 2023-09-23

Barbara Newell Open Way Retreat 2023-09-22

Dharmacharya Greg Grallo offers a talk on the practice of equanimity, one of the four Brahmaviharas as well as one of the Seven Factors of Awakening.

Leave Noting Out

Leave Nothing Out 3 October 2023 Dharmacharya Greg Grallo

Dharmacharya Rowan Conrad offers a Dharma Talk looking at War and Peace in ourselves and in the world.

War and Peace

War And Peace Dharmacharya Rowan Conrad OWMC 11 - 7-2023

Dharmacharya Greg Grallo explores the Four Establishments of Mindfulness in relation to awareness of suffering and the conditions for happiness. Recorded during Open Sky Sangha's Weekend of Mindfulness Retreat at the Flathead Lutheran Bible Camp.

Open Sky Day of Mindfulness

Finding Balance in Shifting World Talk 2 17 Dec 2023

Dharmacharya Greg Grallo explores the connection between awareness of suffering and the conditions for happiness.

Finding Balance in Shifting World Talk 1 16 Dec 2023

Dharmacharya Greg Grallo offers a talk on Beginning Anew through the lenses of mindfulness, concentration, insight and equanimity.

Open Way Tuesday Dharma Talks

Beginning Anew 2 Jan 2024 Dharmacharya Greg Grallo

Sangha member Terri Nichols offers a talk on Deep Listening and Loving Speech at Open Way Sangha.

Deep Listening and Loving Speech Terri 6 Feb 2024

Dharmacharya Greg Grallo offers a teaching on Present Moment, Non-Self, and Impermanence practices at the Flowing Mountains Day of Mindfulness on 2 March 2024. He references the Discourse on Knowing the Better Way to Live Alone and the Five Powers.

Flowing Mountains Day of Mindfulness March 2024

This Ancient Path Continues Flowing Mountains DoM 2 March 2024

Healing Happens All Around, song presented by the Open Sky Sangha at the day of mindfulness on December 8th, 2018

Healing Happens All Around: Group Song

Short Dharma talk followed by Q&A with visiting Dharma teacher Michael Ciborski, offered at Be Here Now Sangha in Missoula, MT on Monday May 6th, 2019.

Talk and Q &A at Be Here Now, Dharma teacher Michael Ciborski

Dharma talk given by Dharma teachers Michael Ciborski & Fern Dorresteyn on Sunday May 5th, 2019 during the Montana Open Way Sanghas spring family retreat.

Sunday Dharma Talk: Michael Ciborski & Fern Dorresteyn

The Flower Garland Discourse: The Ten Great Aspirations of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva is one of the great poetic sutras of the Mahayana tradition. Dharma Teacher Greg Grallo shares how we can see this sutra as a Love Letter to the practice of Mindfulness.

Dharma talk on the Flower Garland Sutra, Greg Grallo, 4/30/19

This practice talk was given by Steve Allison-Bunnell at Open Way Sangha on Tuesday, August 6. 2019.

This talk is not political and does not advocate a particular view. It is an invitation to examine one's own views with the Eyes of Interbeing.

Deep Looking is a practice to understand the conditions that cause a particular moment to arise. The talk offers the practice of Deep Looking as a way to examine and engage horrifying events such as the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings without feeling traumatized by the violence itself.

Open Way Sangha Practice Talks

Practice Talk by Steve Allison-Bunnell, Aug. 2019

The "Art of Suffering Well" as taught by Thich Nhat Hanh is the practice of "being with" rather than avoiding our suffering when it inevitably arises. Given at the Open Way Sangha on Sept. 3rd, 2019

Practice Talk by Chris Lindsey, Sept. 2019

Dharma teacher Michael Ciborski offered three Dharma talks over the Zoom platform from May 1-3, 2020 to the Montana Open Way Sangha community, in the wake of having to cancel our in-person spring retreat due to covid-19. This talk was given on Saturday May 2nd, 2020; talk 2 of 3.

May 2020: Dharma talk Michael Ciborski (2 of 3)

Guided sitting practice followed by a Dharma talk by Dharma teacher Kaira Jewel Lingo, given at the Be Here Now Sangha on Zoom on Monday June 22nd, 2020.

Guided Sit & Dharma Talk by Kaira Jewel Lingo, June 2020

Peggy Mallette shares insights practicing with the 7th of the 14 Mindfulness Trainings of the Order of Interbeing, "Dwelling Happily In the Present Moment." This talk was recorded on December, 1, 2020 during the Open Way Sangha Missoula practice Zoom.

Peggy Mallette Practice Talk: Being Happy In the Present Moment 2010 - 12 - 01

The Open Way Sanghas consist of 3 sister groups in 3 towns in western Montana: Open Way in Missoula, Flowing Mountains in Helena, and Open Sky in Kalispell. For more info: openway.org. This page is also shared with the Be Here Now Sangha in Missoula, an independently operated sangha with close ties to the Open Way Sangha family.

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