Being Aware of Awareness Guided Meditations from Awakening Together Podcasts

In this episode, a quote from The Seven Steps to Awakening by Michael Langford was contemplated. The quote was from Sri Anamalai "208. There is no higher cause of joy than silence where no mind-pictures dwell; it belongs to him who has understood the Self's own being, who is full of the essence of the bliss of the Self."

In this episode, time was spent in devotion to Inner Deity.

In this episode Yukti verse 51 from The Radiance Sutras with Lorin Roche was contemplated.

In this episode a quote from Dr David Hawkins was contemplated. "In the beginning, a seeker assumes there is a personal self that is seeking the real self. Actually, it is the real self that is drawing the seeker to it.”

In this episode excerpts from The Heart of Buddha's Teachings with Thich Nhat Hahn were contemplated. "We have to nourish our insight into impermanence every day. If we do, we will live more deeply, suffer less, and enjoy life much more. Living deeply, we will touch the foundation of reality, nirvana, the world of no-bith and no-death. Touching impermanence deeply, we touch the world beyond perman...

In this episode a quote from The Seven Steps to Awakening by Michael Langford was contemplated. It is quote 820 from the Supreme Yoga . “Abandon your latent tendencies even as a bird, wishing to fly into the sky breaks out of its shell. Born of ignorance, these tendencies are hard to destroy, and they give birth to endless sorrow. It is this ignorant, self limiting tendency of the mind that views...

In this episode, excerpts from chapter 6 of   Helen Hamilton's book, Dissolving The Ego , were contemplated. "In the end all sound will only serve to reinforce that you are in fact the silence of being and in fact that which knows the silence. That which knows silence IS the silence. A sound cannot recognize the silence but the silence can recognize the sound."

In this episode, quotes from The Seven Steps to Awakening by Michael Langford were contemplated. The quotes were from The Supreme Yoga and were quotes 195 & 196. "195. When one thoroughly investigates all this, it clearly seen that the pure consciousness alone exists and nothing else. It is beyond description. At the end of the investigation utter silence alone remains." "196. The truth does n...

In this episode, a slow and gentle exploration of attention, gratitude and knowing was explored. Also quote 721 from The Seven Steps to Awakening by Michael Langford was contemplated. The quote was from the Supreme Yoga. “The utter destruction or extinction of the mind is the extinction of the of the creation-cycle. It is also known as the abandonment of the mind. Therefore, uproot this tree whose...

In this episode, a quote from The Seven Steps to Awakening by Michael Langford was contemplated. The quote was from the Supreme Yoga , and was Quote 190. "When all mental activity ceases, you are that which is."

In today's episode, the meditation is focused on one of the core values of the Awakening Together community. This is Core Value #3:  "We accept one true Self, which is one Presence or Being, non-dual, without beginning or end, and absolutely changeless. We live this value by practicing letting go of the belief in the individual self as who we are."

In this episode a quote from the book The Seven Steps to Awakening by Michael Langford was contemplated. The quote was #277 by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj . “Within the prison of your world appears a man who tells you that the world of painful contradictions, which you have created, is neither continuous nor permanent and is based on a misapprehension. He pleads with you to get out of it, by the same...

This episode is a focused meditation on looking right at Awareness and uncovering any potential false belief that Awareness is an object.

In today's episode a quote from the book Seven Steps to Awakening by Michael Langford was contemplated. The quote was #182 and was from the Supreme Yoga . "182. Do not fall into the net of duality and non-duality, etc. All such controversy and polemics only lead to sorrow and despair. When one pursues the unreal or impermanent there is sorrow. When the conditioning of consciousness drops away, the...

In this episode quotes from the book Seven Steps to Awakening by Michael Langford were contemplated. The quotes from the book were #175-176 from the Supreme Yoga . "175. You are deluded because you do not recollect repeatedly and frequently the truth concerning the infinite consciousness, but you partake of the poison of self-limitation and the consequent psychological conditioning." "176. As and...

In this episode, the self-luminous Light of Knowing, also known as Awareness, Christ Consciousness, Buddha Nature, was contemplated.

In this episode Yukti verse 34 from The Radiance Sutras with Lorin Roche was shared. Quotes from Sri Sadhu Om were also contemplated. “If our attention is directed only towards ourself, our knowledge of our existence alone is nourished, and since the mind is not attended to, it is deprived of its strength.” “When, through the aforesaid Self-attention, we are more and more firmly fixed in our exist...

In the episode quotes from Dr. David Hawkins were contemplated. "The Source is both the initiator as well as the destination."

In this episode a quote from The Seven Steps to Awakening, compiled by Michael Langford, was contemplated. The Quote 158 was from The Supreme Yoga . "All thoughts and beliefs lead to sorrow. Whereas no-thought and no-belief are pure bliss. Therefore, with the help of the fire of wisdom, vaporize the waters of your beliefs and become peaceful, supremely blissful. Behold the one infinite consciousne...

In this episode Yukti Verse 31 from the Radiance Sutras with Lorin Roche were contemplated.

In this episode, a quote from Nisargadatta Maharaj was contemplated. "Your sincerity will guide you. Devotion to the goal of freedom and perfection will make you abandon all theories and systems and live by wisdom, intelligence and active love. Theories may be good as starting points, but must be abandoned, the sooner -- the better."

In this episode,  a quote from Thich Naht Hanh's book, The Heart of the Buddha's Teachings , was contemplated "Buddha advised, 'where there is perception, there's deception.' The Buddha also taught on many occasions that most of our perceptions are erroneous, and that most of our suffering comes from wrong perception. We have to ask ourselves again and again, 'am I sure?' Until we see clearly...

In this episode Yukti verses 27 & 28 from The Radiance Sutras with Lorin Roche were read.

In the episode, a quote from Dr David Hawkins was contemplated. "The way to God is to become that which you Are and, in so doing, your life becomes the prayer. Your devotion to God is witnessed by that which you Are. If you don't acknowledge the Divinity within you, who do you expect will?".

In this episode quotes from Seven Steps to Awakening from Michael Langford were contemplated.  Quote 151: "At all times, everything is known only by direct experience." Quote 152: "Just as a lamp utterly dispels darkness, the knowledge of truth completely uproots concepts and conditioning."