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Simone Weil ~ Decreating Ourselves ~ (from Gravity and Grace)
September 28, 2026 · 30 minSelected passages read from the text Gravity and Grace - specifically from the chapters on 'The Self' and 'Decreation'.Simone Weil (1909–1943) was a French philosopher, mystic and spiritual writer whose short life was devoted to the search…
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Hazrat Inayat Khan ~ Music of the Absolute ~ Sufi Mystics
September 22, 2026 · 11 minHazrat 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 came to the West as a representative of…
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Resting the Mind ~ Samaneri Jayasara
September 15, 2026 · 25 minThis 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 inherent, natural peace within the mind…
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The Fire Sermon ~ Teachings of the Buddha
September 4, 2026 · 14 minĀdittapariyāya 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, the sermon provides a psychologically…
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The Mandukya Upanishad ~ Advaita Vedanta
August 29, 2026 · 17 minThe 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 no single author, emerging from the…
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Max Picard ~ A Meditation on Silence
August 21, 2026 · 22 minMax 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 voice seems more necessary now than ever…
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Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi) ~ The Return ~ Taoism
August 11, 2026 · 18 minSelected 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 sages. Living during the turbulent Warring…
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The Path of Immediate Liberation ~ Dzogchen Meditation
June 24, 2026 · 32 minThis 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 various teachings and pointers from…