Wisdom of the Masters

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Teachings of the Buddha - Bahiya Sutta - Udana 1.10 - Pali Canon Sep 02, 2021

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Teachings of the Buddha - Bāhiya Sutta - from the Udana 1.10 - translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

In this brief teaching, the Buddha taught Bahiya to put aside all views of self arising from confused and deluded thoughts based on clinging and craving. Bahiya was right to understand the immediacy of needing to awaken through the Dhamma. No one can know when sickness, aging and death will arise and this is why the Buddha gave these final instructions moments before he himself passed: “Impermanence and decay are relentless. Strive diligently for your own salvation.”

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Sri Brahmajna Ma - Selected Teachings for Meditation - Advaita - Vedanta Aug 28, 2021

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Sri Brahmajna Ma (21 February 1880 – 5 November 1934) was an Indian advaitin saint from East Bengal. What little is known about her reveals her as an illumined soul who was established in non-dual realization. Like Ramana Maharshi, she had no guru, but attained enlightenment through her own efforts at self-inquiry.

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Longchenpa - The Three Aspects of Meditative Absorption - Dzogchen Aug 25, 2021

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A pinnacle teaching! This profound and sublime teaching by the Great Master, Longchenpa, is suitable and intended for experienced meditators who have an in depth understanding and practical insight into Dzogchen's perfection. Longchenpa's teaching on the Three Aspects of Meditative Absorption - read from the text: A Treasure Trove of Scriptural Transmission. Excerpt from the chapter on Natural Meditative Stability.

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Song of Mind (Xin Ming) - Master Niutou Farong - Zen Buddhism Aug 24, 2021

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Reading of the famous seventh-century Zen classic Xin Ming, or "Song of Mind" - this poem is a masterpiece of expressing the inexpressible.

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Saint Thérèse of Lisieux - Selected Prayers/Poems for Meditation/Contemplation - Christian Mystics Aug 21, 2021

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Thérèse of Lisieux (2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), also known as Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, was a French Catholic Discalced Carmelite nun who is widely venerated in modern times. She is popularly known as "The Little Flower of Jesus", or simply "The Little Flower.”

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Padmasambhava - Teaching on the Supreme Profound Meaning - Dzogchen Aug 21, 2021

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A reading from the teaching entitled "Advice to King Trisong Detusen" - from the text "Advice from the Lotus Born", by Padmasambhava - translated by Erik Pema Kunsang.

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A Guided Meditation on Freedom from Thoughts - Samaneri Jayasara Aug 17, 2021

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This is a guided meditation to help us work skillfully with thoughts, to understand their essence, and to be liberated from excessive, neurotic, and obsessive thinking.

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Vajrayoginī - Instructions for Cutting Through Delusion (Trekchö) - Dzogchen Aug 14, 2021

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Trekchö is translated as ‘thoroughly cutting through’ (resistance, stubbornness, toughness and closedness), or ‘breakthrough’. The practice of trekchö reveals the view of primordial purity beyond conceptual elaboration. Trekchö means cutting through delusion with fierce, direct thoroughness. Vajrayoginī is a Tantric Buddhist female Buddha and a ḍākiṇī. Vajrayoginī's essence is "great passion", a transcendent passion that is free of selfishness and illusion - she intensely works for the well-being of others and for the destruction of ego clinging.

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Hafiz - Selected Poems for Meditation - Sufi Mysticism Aug 13, 2021

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These poems have been selected from the text "The Gift" - translated by Daniel Ladinsky. Persian lyric poet Hafiz (born Khwāja Šamsu d-Dīn Muḥammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī) grew up in Shiraz.

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Longchenpa - The Pinnacle Teaching for Meditation - Dzogchen Aug 10, 2021

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This sublime and profound teaching by the great master, Longchenpa is taken from the Finding Rest trilogy - "Rest in Illusion". It is suitable for those practitioners who have a in-depth understanding and insight into Dzogchen's concepts and paradigm.

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