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Longchenpa ~ The Enlightened Mind ~ Dzogchen
These pointers from the Master, Longchen Rabjam, have been compiled for meditation/contemplation and point to the natural state of the mind - free fr…
3 days, 14 hours ago
Simone Weil ~ Decreating Ourselves ~ (from Gravity and Grace)
Selected passages read from the text Gravity and Grace - specifically from the chapters on 'The Self' and 'Decreation'.Simone Weil (1909–1943) was a …
1 week, 5 days ago
Hazrat Inayat Khan ~ Music of the Absolute ~ Sufi Mystics
Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882 –1927) was an Indian professor of musicology, singer, exponent of the saraswati vina, poet, philosopher, and pioneer of the …
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Resting the Mind ~ Samaneri Jayasara
This meditation guides you to rest and relax the mind and body, not through force or coercion, but simply by recognising the ever present state of th…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
The Fire Sermon ~ Teachings of the Buddha
Ādittapariyāya Sutta, popularly known as "The Fire Sermon", is the third major discourse delivered by the Buddha. Spoken on top of the Gayasisa Hill …
1 month ago
The Mandukya Upanishad ~ Advaita Vedanta
The Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣhad is one of the later and shortest of the principal Upaniṣads, consisting of just twelve remarkably dense verses. It belongs to …
1 month, 1 week ago
Max Picard ~ A Meditation on Silence
Max Picard (1888–1965) was a Swiss-German philosopher, physician, and mystic whose profound vision and work speaks with extraordinary force to our in…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi) ~ The Return ~ Taoism
Selected teachings from Chuang Tzu excerpted from 'The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu' - translated by Burton Watson. Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi) c. 369–286 …
1 month, 4 weeks ago
The Path of Immediate Liberation ~ Dzogchen Meditation
This is a guided Dzogchen meditation pointing to recognising the natural state of the enlightened mind, free from conceptual proliferation, and pract…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Sayings of the Desert Mothers ~ Christian Mystics
This is a reading for meditation of selected teachings/sayings of the Desert Mothers, taken from 'Apophthegmata Patrum' (Sayings of the Desert Father…
3 months, 3 weeks ago