Podcast Episodes

Aware Right at Awareness ~ Upasika Kee Nanayon ~ Thai Forest Buddhism

A clear and powerful teaching given by Upasika Kee Nanayon - taken from the book "An Unentangled Knowing" - translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

Upasika Kee Nanayon or Kor Khao-suan-luang was a realize…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Zen Master Ryōkan ~ A Cool Breeze ~ Zen Buddhism

Ryōkan Taigu 良寛大愚 (1758–1831) was a quiet and unconventional Sōtō Zen Buddhist monk who lived much of his life as a hermit. Ryōkan is remembered for his poetry and calligraphy, which present the esse…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Bede Griffiths ~ The Unfathomable Mystery

Bede Griffiths (17 December 1906 – 13 May 1993), born Alan Richard Griffiths and also known by the end of his life as Swami Dayananda ("bliss of compassion"), was a British-born Catholic priest and B…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

The Buddha's Teaching on Not Self ~ Anattalakkhana Sutta - Pali Buddhism

The Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta (Pali) or Anātmalakṣaṇa Sūtra (Sanskrit), is traditionally recorded as the second discourse delivered by Gautama Buddha. The title translates to the "Not-Self Characteristic…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

The Record of Linji ~ Linji Yixuan ~ Zen Buddhism (Chan)

A reading of selected excerpts from the Record of Linji. The Linji lu (Record of Linji) has been an essential text of Chinese and Japanese Zen Buddhism for nearly a thousand years. A compilation of s…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Listening to the Silence (Guided Meditation) ~ Samaneri Jayasara

This is a guided meditation on the power of listening as an effective means of entering into a meditative state. It encourages a gentle letting go of our reactivity to the sense world, and to the tho…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Hazrat Inayat Khan ~ The Mysticism of Sound ~ Sufism

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882 –1927) was an Indian professor of musicology, singer, exponent of the saraswati vina, poet, philosopher, and pioneer of the transmission of Sufism to the West. He initially …

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Abhinavagupta ~ Living Liberation (Jivanmukti) ~ Kashmir Shaivism

This is a selection of some key teachings of Abhinavagupta extracted from various sources and texts. Abhinavagupta (c. 950 – 1016 CE ) was a philosopher, mystic and aesthetician from Kashmir. He was…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago

Sri Sarada Devi ~ Surrender Yourself ~ Bhakti

Sri Sarada Devi (22 December 1853 – 21 July 1920), was a nineteenth-century Hindu mystic and saint. She was the wife and spiritual consort of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. Sarada Devi is also reverentiall…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali ~ Chapter One - Samadhi Pada

This is a reading of Chapter 1 of the Patanjali Yoga Sutras - Samadhi - translated by Alistair Shearer. The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali is a collection of Sanskrit sutras (aphorisms) on the theory and …

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago