What is meditation, and is there some "best" method for its practice? What is prayer and what's the most effective way to pray? Should I be really be asking God for specific things? How can I practice ceaseless prayer? When I sit down to meditate, thoughts crowd in, and I can't seem to find a truly quiet moment. How am I ever going to change if I can't even do this simple exercise?...
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To enter into the next level of meditation is to discover and then realize the next level of your own higher consciousness. With this eCourse you will take a deep look at what mindfulness means, how it can elevate your life, and how you can take your work of meditation, and your wish to gain the gifts it brings, into your daily experience. Special bonus: 14-page PDF transcript of the talks.
When you go outside on a beautiful day and step into the sunlight, do you have to try to enjoy the warmth? Or is the warmth of the sun just part of what is there, and you are a part of it? Similarly, real meditation is effortless. It is the fulfillment of natural relationship, not the attempt on our part to create relationship. Your being itself is meditating, as it is a natural part of the wh...
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Meditation Talk: 12/27/2019 - Meditation is the interior art of quietly watching your whole life unfold, moment-to-moment, for "better or for worse"... Without trying to change, explain, or otherwise control whatever you see.
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Meditation Talk: 9/7/2018 - Meditation is watching yourself "happen"... Without trying to change what you see. (30-minute talk followed by a 30-minute meditation)...
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Meditation Talk: 6/15/2018 - Meditation is a living, conscious realization that there is no self without relationship... and that relationship is one's True Self. (30-minute talk followed by a 30-minute meditation)...
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Meditation Talk: 7/19/2019 - An ever-widening meditation -- that can, and should be practiced everywhere, under any circumstance, (other than when one must employ practical thought) -- is how we steadily bridge the illusion of duality... ending the painful illusion of imagining ourselves as apart from the Divine source of our (own) soul.
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Meditation Talk: 5/3/2019 Since there is no self apart from the relationship in which it appears, this means there is no awakening, no liberation, apart from relationship. This means that any and all forms of "transformation" are not really a change in some separate "self" that seeks its own idea of being free, but rather what is called...
Is one intent on something, or content with everything? When I meditate, I no longer intend anything.
Classroom Talk: 1/7/2005 - 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.
We have within us, each and every one of us, a certain kind of higher vantage point -- a very special part of us -- that when we are present to it, we enjoy its peace, regardless of what is going on around us or within us. This yet to be realized state of ourselves can be called conscious self-awareness. Through its power, instead of being pulled down into painful identification with each and every passing shadow of life...
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In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how it is possible for us to establish a real relationship with a higher order of stillness that is authentically in command of any interior disturbance.