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 transmission of Sufism to the West. He initially ca...
22 Sep 11min
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 the mind in it natural awareness. Rediscovering our i...
15 Sep 25min
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 Jun 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 Jun 14min
