Podcast Episodes

Padmasambhava - Guru Rinpoche - "Descending with the View from Above" - Dzogchen

An amazing teaching/terma from the Master intended for deep meditation and contemplation. Text taken from the book "Treasures from Juniper Ridge" - translated by Erik Kunsang and Marcia Schmidt.

Musi…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

Tilopa's Song to Naropa - Mahamudra - "The Ganges Mahamudra" - Kagyu Lineage

Tilopa's Song to Naropa - Translated by Lex Hixon.  Tilopa (988–1069) was born in Bengal in India. He was a tantric practitioner and mahasiddha. He practised Anuttarayoga Tantra, a set of spiritual p…

Published on 4 years, 10 months ago

A Guided Meditation on Listening and Silence - Based on Selected Verses and Poems of Ilie Cioara

These poems/stanzas written by Ilie Cioara have been formatted for the purpose of a guided meditation. Excerpts taken from the book by Cioara, "The Silence of the Mind" - translated by Petrica Verdes…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Padmasambhava - SELF-LIBERATION THROUGH SEEING WITH NAKED AWARENESS - Dzogchen

A text belonging to the same cycle as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, this instruction on the method of  self-liberation presents the essence of Dzogchen, The Great Perfection, regarded in Tibet as the…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Padmasambhava - Guru Rinpoche - The Twenty One Vital Instructions - 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).

🙏 May whatev…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

The Spandakarika - "Song of the Sacred Tremor" - Kashmir Shaivism

The Spandakarika, or "Song of the Sacred Tremor," is one of the most important Tantric texts in the tradition of Kashmiri Shaivism.  It is said to have been transmitted directly to the sage Vasugupta…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Nisargadatta Maharaj - "I am" - A Guided Meditation

A selection of key pointers from the Great Master, Nisargadatta, taken from the text "I am That" and "The Nisargadatta Gita" - intended as a guided meditation. 

Original text of "I am That" edited an…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Thomas Merton - What is Contemplation? - Christian Mystics

Readings from selected chapters from the text "Seeds of Contemplation" by Thomas Merton.   Thomas Merton  (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mys…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche - "Buddha Nowhere Else" - Selected Pointers for Meditation - Dzogchen

Excerpts from the teaching/chapter, "Buddha Nowhere Else" taken from the text "As It Is" - Volume 1. Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang.

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920 - February 13, 1996) was a Buddhist m…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago

Ramana Maharshi - Be As you Are - Part 1 The Conversations

Reading from the text - Be As You Are - by Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi. I have omitted the questions for ease of flow. 

Edited by David Godman.

🙏 May whatever goodness arises from these readings/off…

Published on 4 years, 11 months ago