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 to a gathering of 1,000 newly converted ascetics, t...
4 Sep 14min
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 the Atharvaveda and is traditionally attributed to ...
29 Aug 17min
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 increasingly noisy and distracted age —yet whose voic...
21 Aug 22min
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 BCE was one of ancient China’s greatest Daoist sage...
11 Aug 18min
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 practising to rest in it. The instructions are based on ...
24 Juni 31min
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 Fathers & Mothers) translated by Benedicta Ward; and Phil...
16 Juni 14min
Ajahn Chah ~ A Guided Meditation ~ Thai Forest Tradition
This is a guided meditation formatted from instructions provided in the text, "On Meditation Instructions from talks by Ajahn Chah."The text can be downloaded for free from here: https://www.abhayagir...
5 Juni 34min
Nisargadatta ~ Be Like Space ~ The Final Talks
This is a selection of teachings of Nisargadatta's taken from the text 'Consciousness and the Absolute: The Final Talks - Jean Dunn (editor).The text, 'Consciousness and the Absolute' were the last te...
28 Maj 26min
