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“I can’t stop thinking” – The challenge of beginning a meditation practice

The frustration which so many experience when beginning a meditation practice is often summarized in four simple words, “I can’t stop thinking”. With regular practice anyone can withdraw from the outside world to observe the mechanics of their inner psyche. This experience can be overwhelming and often is a reason to quit altogether. Overcoming this first challenge is to become familiar with the mental ‘lay of the land’; a first step in the journey of your meditation practice.

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Alan Watts – Why not now? (Alan Watts teaching meditation) [1h34m]

Absolutely profound presentations and readings from Alan Watts are enlightening as they are. This video, ‘Why not now?’ offers something a little more tangible in the way of usable knowledge. Alan speaks for over an hour on the philosophy and discipline of a mediation practice. Who better to gain insight from than the Zen master himself, Alan Watts?

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Scilla Elworthy – Fighting with non-violence

Scillia Elworthy speaks on the subject of fighting with non-violence. Interestingly the talk also involves the subject of fear, individual and cultural as well as meditation as a solution to violence.

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The Divine Within – Quotations on Meditation

The Divine Within – Quotations on Meditation

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. – Carl Jung Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. – George MacDonald Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. – Benjamin Franklin To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still. – [...]

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Michael Stone – Redefining the present moment

What does it mean to be in the moment? What does it mean to be mindful? Yogi and Buddhist teacher Michael Stone breaks down the oft used term and shows how it relates to being mindful about what’s really going on.

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Flow Practice to Prepare for Meditation with Baron Baptiste: Yoga Journal’s Home Practice

Baron Baptistes instructional yoga dvd’s and videos are an amazing resource for unlocking the potential of your body. He has released videos for the practice of yoga at virtually any proficiency level, from absolute beginner to a tantric master. This video is specialized for those who wish to incorporate yogic asanas with their meditational practice. [...]

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Alan Watts – Nothingness

Alan Watts discusses no-thing-ness. What is all of this if not nothing? If everything we know in all of our life will eventually not exist, then every things natural state is in non-existence. This is the secret to our self, the worries, fears and hiccups we have through life. They should be considered as nothing, [...]

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Mooji – Understanding the presence “I Am”

Through our consciousness there is an intuitive sense of ‘I am’, or I exist. This basic intuition can provide the basis for a meditational practice. In this video, Moojji explains how to concentrate on that basic feeling in order to deepen the meditational experience and explore our mind-scape.

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8 Stages of Buddhist Samatha Meditation

The journey towards the experience of nothingness begins with mindfulness and ends with neither perception nor non-perceiving, but rather, one just is.

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Chakras Introduction

An introduction to the human body’s 7 primary psychic centres (chakras) [slideshow]

  Mooladhara color – deep red force – masculine meaning – root trigger – perineum (men), back of cervix (women) element – earth sense – smell sound – lam energy – primal / sexual (shakti) will – to have (life) visualized – 4 petal lotus sanskrit letters – vam, sham, sham, sam & lam god [...]

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