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Modern physicists now confirm what the Wise Ones have always known: we live in many worlds at once. And yet, for most of us, our awareness is limited only to that world that we can touch with our senses. But we are not meant to dwell in a single dimension of time and space, any more than an eagle is created to fly while holding one of its talons to the ground.
"The Meditative Life" by best-selling
author Guy Finley offers so much more than just pleasing descriptions of the
many, silent, sentient worlds within us; it provides all that we need to know
to enter into these invisible realms, and to develop a conscious relationship
with them on a moment to moment basis.
This extraordinary audio album is packed with perception-altering principles and gentle practices to help us realize the beauty and power of a meditative life. Enjoy 11 insight-filled talks that give you the true inside story about real meditation.
Program Contents:
Disc 1
Talk 1: The First Step to Being Still
Key Lesson: Feeling sorry for yourself is like slipping
off a boat at sea and, just as you're falling into the waters, grabbing the
anchor to take with you so as to have something you can cling to in your time
of trouble!
Talk 2: The Quiet Beauty of Being Inwardly Balanced
Key Lesson: When, before our inner eyes, we always
have someplace better to be, or that feeling we must make something more of
ourselves, we miss seeing two great truths: First, all imagined destinations
are dreams whose promised fulfillment fades the nearer we draw to them . .
. and secondly, that where and who we are in each moment is a field
of possibilities whose riches are not only immediate, but everlasting.
Talk 3: Release Yourself from the River of Dark Dreams
Key Lesson: Whenever we can remember that we would
rather smile about what life brings us than suffer over it -- that our natural
preference is happiness, not hurtfulness -- then in such moments of being mindful
of what we love most . . . can't we also strive to remember how much better
it is, for everyone, to brighten the life of another rather than to darken
it in our forgetfulness?
Disc 2
Talk 4: Stillness: The Sum of Meditation
Key Lesson: If we would only dare to slow down long
enough to examine why we run life's race at the pace that we do -- which is
to win for ourselves all that we can, as fast as possible, with the least amount
of pain -- then we would have the bittersweet but self-liberating shock of
seeing that most of the very reasons we have for living are the same ones that
are killing us.
Talk 5: Being Present to Pure Presence
Key Lesson: If only some great law required those who
are ever speaking critically about the work of others to assume a portion of
that same work -- in order to make it better -- then the world would know a
sweet new order of silence, and those who "do" in life would no longer
have to bear the bitter sound of those who won't.
Talk 6: Find Freedom in the Field of the Present Moment
Key Lesson: How strange it is that we resent carrying
on our backs the pointed opinion of others, when it is we who give this barbed
thought its power to trouble us. Think not? Then let us ask: what possible
suffering can there be in what another thinks of me, unless I am holding the
same thought as he?
Disc 3
Talk 7: The Unassailable Kingdom of a Quiet Mind
Key Lesson: Sooner put out a fire with jet fuel than gain the upper hand on some anxious state by throwing more agitated thoughts into its turmoil.
Talk 8: Find the Feeling of Now
Key Lesson: The desire for greatness is not the same
as the love of it -- for such a want causes us to compare ourselves with what
is great in others, and from the seed of this secret contest springs conflict.
But love of greatness embraces the Goodness from which it springs -- and such
a love is never conflicted for having found a light that burns brighter than
itself, any more than a spark in a fire contests the flame from which it is
thrown.
Talk 9: Letting Love Lead You to Silence
Key Lesson: Whenever unhappiness lingers on -- so much
so that we start believing darkness has won the day -- we may find new strength
to start life over in this bright truth: the only cause for our continuing
sense of feeling so bound and restricted is that we have agreed -- without
knowing it -- to live in a world smaller than is our potential to
let go of whatever may be limiting us.
Disc 4
Talk 10: Enter the Secret Center of Yourself Beyond
Thought
Key Lesson: Here is a great spiritual truth: The only
time we ever "fail" at anything in our lives is when we walk away
from a challenge before we've allowed it to teach us its lessons.
Talk 11: Use This New Light to Enter the Meditative
Life
Key Lesson: It isn't hard, at times, to love others for what they are. Such relationships are on easy terms, and we receive what we give in a fair measure. But to love another for what they may yet be -- to give them the patience and kindness that lets them flower -- this is a different task altogether. For to love a person for what he or she may be -- costs us; and to pay this coin we must, ourselves, run in debt to who it is that we hope to be . . . an act that requires our payment in every moment, and with all those we meet.
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