Podcast Episodes

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche ~ The Empty Nature of Thoughts ~ Dzogchen

A selection of profound pointers taken from the text 'The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones' by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.H.H. Khyentse (1910-1991) was born in the Dergé region of Kham, Eastern Ti…

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St John of the Cross ~ The Unknowing ~ Christian Mystics

A reading for meditation of the St John of the Cross poem - "I Entered the Unknown."John of the Cross (1542 -1591) was a Spanish Catholic priest, mystic, and a Carmelite friar of converso origin. Joh…

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Harada Sekkei Roshi ~ The Original Condition ~ Zen Buddhism

Harada Sekkei Roshi (1926-2020) was the abbot of Hosshin-ji, a Soto Zen training monastery and temple, in Fukui Prefecture, near the coast of central Japan. He was born in 1926 in Okazaki, near Nagoy…

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Jean Klein ~ A Great Laughing! ~ Advaita

This is a selection of non-dual pointers taken from Jean Klein's texts, 'Dialogues with Jean Klein' and 'The Flame of Being.'

Jean Klein (October 19, 1912 – February 22, 1998) was a French author, spi…

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The Residual Conceit 'I am' ~ Khemakasutta ~ Pali Buddhist Teachings

A reading of the Khemaka Sutta from the Saṁyutta Nikāya - Connected Discourses on the Aggregates SN22.89. Translated by Bhikkhu BodhiKhemaka's teaching clarifies that a noble one (in his case a non-r…

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How to Practice the 'I am" - as taught by Nisargadatta Maharaj

This is guided meditation for practising and understanding the principles of the 'I Am' as taught by Nisargadatta Maharaj. The words are an amalgam of pointers/teachings taken from the text 'I am Tha…

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Rumi ~ Love's Astrolabe ~ Sufi Mystics

Selected excertps of poems from Rumi - translations by F. Hadland Davis and R.A. Nicholson.

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, I…

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A Quiet Mind ~ A Guided Meditation ~ Samaneri Jayasara

This is a spoken guided meditation (no music) that commences with an open awareness and listening - accepting and allowing things to 'be' - to come and to go. It then progresses to an investigation o…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Vital Points of Practice ~ Padmasambhava ~ Dzogchen

Text reading taken from:Treasures from Juniper Ridge (Padmasambhava's Advice #3) by Padmasambhava by Tulku Urgyen, Erik Pema Kunsang (Translator) , Marcia Binder Schmidt (Translator).Padmasambhava, a…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Margery Kempe ~ A Mighty Faith ~ Christian Mystics

A reading of excerpts from Margery Kempe's autobiography 'The Book of Margery Kempe.' A number of translations have been consulted to render the writing into modern English parlance.

Margery Kempe (c.…

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