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Happy Mind: Meditations from the Ancient World to Modernity

Ancient meditation techniques from wisdom teachers who are lost in the mists of time are made available to you in accessible, bite-sized or longer guided meditations. Each episode is largely inspired by the original teachings of Taoist, Buddhist and Hindu masters like Lao Tzu, Buddha and “Krishna”, Christian masters like Mary Magdalene, Jesus and Teresa of Avila, Greek masters like Plotinus, Plato and Pythagoras, Islamic masters like Rumi, Ibn Arabi, Attar, and Hafez, and pre-historic masters from Polynesia, Australia and the Americas. From Buddhism to Taoism, from Astrology to Platonism, from Medieval Alchemists to Central Asian poets of yore, (and more), this podcast provides an easy way to access the simple meditation and happy life practices developed by the wisest masters to have graced this planet. Zebediah Rice guides you in an easy and free way to learn to meditate, become more mindful, energetic, happy, peaceful, and mentally sharp. Just sit back, relax, and let me do the work for you.

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Latest Episodes:

Love & Emptiness (10 min) Feb 22, 2020

Show notes

We can use the breath as our teacher. We are born and grow up, then we age and our bodies return to dust. We expand and then contract. In the same way, we breathe in and we breathe out. The day dawns and then night falls. Duality represents the fundamental underlying truth of physical reality and the lower chakras. Light and dark, heaven and earth, fire and water, in breath and out breath. But the truth is that there is only one, not two. The breath can guide us to this truth if we let it. This 10 minute meditation on love and emptiness does just that. (NOTE: This is a recording from a group session so the audio isn't perfect).

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A Peaceful, Beautiful Place (20 min) Feb 22, 2020

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Meditation can be used wherever you are, whenever you like to settle your mind and relax your body. In spite of the sound quality of this 20 minute recording not being ideal (it was captured during a group session in a glass-walled room) it will provide a rapid transport away from the trials and tribulations of everyday life.

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A Peaceful, Beautiful Place (10 min) Feb 21, 2020

Show notes

Use this meditation to settle your mind and relax your body. In spite of the sound quality of this 10 minute recording not being ideal (it was captured during a group session in a glass-walled room) it will provide a rapid transport away from the trials and tribulations of everyday life.

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Share Your Love With Others (10 min) Feb 17, 2020

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If you would like to feel connected with others, you don't have to have them physically present. They can even be passed away and you can re-establish your loving connection with them. If you are meditating with a group that is physically present together, it works just as well and this is a simple meditation that you can do together. It works whether there are just two of you or many more and it works whether the group is physically together or not. (Apologies for the poor audio quality--most of the people in this meditation were on the phone so it was recorded over the phone line!).

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The Light of Ancient Egypt (60 min) Feb 04, 2020

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Just as we want to understand the nature of reality and we search for meaning and peace and health and joy in our lives, so the men and women of ancient times sought answers to these very same questions and methods of reaching these states of mind. The great Egyptian god Thoth (known as Hermes by the Greeks who preserved these texts) revealed the secret methods of the Ancient Egyptians in a series of scrolls in the early centuries of the first millennium in the Great library of Alexandria. Echoing the insights of Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Krishna and many other ancient masters, this extraordinary Egyptian text remains one of the great works of mystical literature, on a par with the Gospels, the Diamond Sutra, the Bhagavad Gita and the Tao Te Ching. In this 60 minute meditation, some of the insights from the Egypt of old are applied to help you find peace and meaning in your own life.

Background reading:

The Way of Hermes

The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

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The Light of Ancient Egypt (45 min) Feb 03, 2020

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The great Egyptian god Thoth (known as Hermes by the Greeks who preserved these texts) represented a carrier of wisdom from Ancient Egypt. These scrolls found a home in the libraries of Alexandria during the early centuries of the first millennium. In this text the secrets of happiness and peace and the very nature of reality were revealed. Echoing the insights of Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Krishna and many other ancient masters, this extraordinary Egyptian text remains one of the great works of mystical literature, on a par with the Gospels, the Diamond Sutra, the Bhagavad Gita and the Tao Te Ching. In this 45 minute meditation, some of the insights from the Egypt of old are applied to help you find peace and meaning in your own life.

Background reading:

The Way of Hermes

The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

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The Light of Ancient Egypt (30 min) Feb 03, 2020

Show notes

The wisdom of Ancient Egypt found a home in the libraries of Alexandria during the early centuries of the first millennium. A collection of works attributed to the Egyptian god Thoth (aka Hermes) were among the many hundreds of thousands of scrolls in that great city of old. And in this text the secrets of happiness and peace and the very nature of reality were revealed. Echoing the insights of Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Buddha and many other ancient masters, this extraordinary Egyptian text remains one of the great works of mystical literature, on a par with the Gospels, the Diamond Sutra, the Bhagavad Gita and the Tao Te Ching. In this 30 minute meditation, some of the insights from the Egypt of old are applied to help you find peace and meaning in your own life.

Background reading:

The Way of Hermes

The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

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The Light of Ancient Egypt (20 min) Feb 02, 2020

Show notes

In this 20 minute meditation, some of the insights from the Egypt of old are applied to help you find peace and meaning in your own life. The great Egyptian god Thoth (known as Hermes by the Greeks who preserved these texts) revealed the secret methods of the Ancient Egyptians in a series of scrolls in the early centuries of the first millennium in the Great library of Alexandria. Echoing the insights of Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Krishna and many other ancient masters, this extraordinary Egyptian text remains one of the great works of mystical literature, on a par with the Gospels, the Diamond Sutra, the Bhagavad Gita and the Tao Te Ching.

Background reading:

The Way of Hermes

The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

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The Light of Ancient Egypt (10 min) Feb 01, 2020

Show notes

The great Egyptian god Thoth (known as Hermes by the Greeks who preserved these texts) revealed the secret methods of the Ancient Egyptians in a series of scrolls in the early centuries of the first millennium in the Great library of Alexandria. Echoing the insights of Zarathustra, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Krishna and many other ancient masters, this extraordinary Egyptian text remains one of the great works of mystical literature, on a par with the Gospels, the Diamond Sutra, the Bhagavad Gita and the Tao Te Ching. In this 10 minute meditation, some of the insights from the Egypt of old are applied to help you find peace and meaning in your own life.

Background reading:

The Way of Hermes

The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

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The Seven Valleys of Ancient Persia (60 min) Jan 31, 2020

Show notes

Khorasan is a region in north eastern Iran that was home to the great medieval poet Farid Ud-Din Attar. But there were many poets and mystics like him who laid down a map that each of us can still follow today to escape our self-hood’s vicious tyranny and set free our soul. It is a royal way and no mind can penetrate the sovereign whom we seek. The mystery of this unending state remains forever out of reach of the intellect. So you have to leave your mind behind on this journey. And that is what we do in this guided meditation. You will pass through the seven valleys of this mystical framework. At each one shed an aspect of mind so that by the end you are ready to witness the dazzling perfection of Truth. The inspiration for this guided meditation are the great Islamic masters like Rabi'a, Ibn 'Arabi, Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani , Jalaluddin Rumi, and above all (in this meditation) Farid Ud-Din Attar. This is a 60 minute version.

Valley 1: The Valley of the Quest

Valley 2: The Valley of Desire

Valley 3: The Valley of the Intellect

Valley 4: Mystic Apprehension & Detachment

Valley 5: Harmony

Valley 6: Bewilderment

Valley 7: Annihilation

Background reading:

The Conference of the Birds (Farid Ud-Din Attar)

The Secret of Secrets (Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani)

Rab'ia of Basra: Selected Poems

I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy (Hafez)

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