Live Free with Selena Sage

4 Lessons and reflections from my 10,000 mile (so far!) roadtrip around the USA and Canada. Happy trails! Namasté and love, Selena Sage // selenasage.com // selena@selenasage.com // Fb+IG: Selena Sage - Author

It’s easy to be happy when everything goes right. But what about when it is perceived that it’s all going wrong? Shift to that very Perceiver and know that you’re already, and always, free. Namasté and love, Selena Sage // selenasage.com // email: selena@selenasage.com // Fb+IG: Selena Sage - Author

Inspired to record a brief message from beautiful Halifax Public Gardens in Nova Scotia, Canada. Give up thoughts and find that the Infinite will naturally direct your steps. Being in flow is the greatest freedom. Namasté and love, Selena Sage // selenasage.com // email: selena@selenasage.com // Fb+IG: Selena Sage - Author

Live recording from Savage Mill Trail to explore the nature of Self, and that of the Mind. Realization of Oneness is freedom; Heaven is a silent and empty mind. Namasté, Selena Sage // selenasage.com // email: selena@selenasage.com // Fb+IG: Selena Sage - Author

A reading from The Ashtavakra Gita, translation by Thomas Byrom (book: “The Heart of Awareness”). I encourage you to sit with this wisdom and recognize that The Master is beyond all duality (“Advaita” means “not two”), and thus truly free. This freedom exists for all, for it is indeed our true nature. Namasté, Selena Sage // selenasage.com // email: selena@selenasage.com // Fb+IG: Selena Sage - Au...

Zen Master Bodhidharma said, “Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death.” Remaining unattached to arising thoughts is to remain as your true nature — Peace itself. Namasté and love, Selena Sage // selenasage.com // email: selena@selenasage.com // Fb+IG: Selena Sage - Author

This episode is dedicated to MM, with my thanks for your kind and loving support of this podcast! May this exploration further aid your discovery of the nature of thought, and your true nature as that which witnesses even thought. Namasté and love, Selena Sage // SelenaSage.com // email: selena@selenasage.com // Fb+IG: Selena Sage - Author // episode recorded live at Wincopin Trail, MD

An encounter with a snake on a hike in the USA served as a powerful reminder that thoughts are not what we are. Welcome the snake (or lion!) in your path and remain as Presence and Peace — your true nature. Namasté, Selena Sage // selenasage.com // email: selena@selenasage.com // Fb+IG: Selena Sage - Author

Sri Baba said, “When I’ve left, I’ve left.” When you’ve left a place, situation, or person, are you still carrying it around? It is like trying to drive forward by constantly looking in the rearview mirror. Quoting a couple of questions from my first book, “Meditative Questions,” ( available at zentaobooks.com ) we explore these ideas and the way to know that your true nature is Awareness itself....

Cease being interested and you are free. Message inspired by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, recorded on the road at Indian River Park in Chesapeake, Virginia USA. Namasté and love, Selena Sage // selenasage.com // email: selena@selenasage.com // Fb+IG: Selena Sage - Author

Lembre-se: você faz seu mundo com seus pensamentos. (Remember: You make your world with your thoughts.) After spending a lovely week with my beautiful Cabo Verdeana sister, the inspiration arose to create this short episode in my own version of Cape Verdean Kriolu. The language differs by island, and my mix of Kriolu and Portuguese is like it’s own island haha I share it with love to my Cape Verde...

How can we describe that which is beyond description? Though words and examples may help, they are not *it*. By examining a new age Zen story, we bring clarity to this concept as we move beyond practices and concepts. Namasté and love, Selena Sage // selenasage.com // email: selena@selenasage // Fb+IG: Selena Sage - Author

Namasté dear one. In this 3am recording, feeling overwhelming gratitude and love that I was inspired to share with you. Quotes from “Miracle of Love” by Ram Dass and my second book, “unbreakable” (at zentaobooks.com); with a remembered story from “I Am That” by Nisargadatta Maharaj. // May you release all, find that emptiness to be full of love, and know that to be your true nature. Namasté and lo...

Release all attachments and desires gracefully, and gratefully, and know that you are Freedom itself. // “unbreakable” is available at Zentaobooks.com //Namasté and love, Selena Sage // selenasage.com // email: selena@selenasage.com // Fb+IG: Selena Sage Author

With thanks to a beloved brother for the question that inspired this episode, I humbly provide thoughts about enduring chronic pain and/or incurable illness, with my love to all who suffer. The masters say, “You are not the body; You are not the mind” to give us a key. We must unlock this meaning and become free of any attachment to body or mind. Sri Mooji reminds us that the Self doesn’t need hea...

Sharing wisdom from Advaita Master Sri Nisargsdatta, Sufi Saint Rumi, and Ch’an / Zen Master Huang Po, we explore the idea that it is the false that makes you suffer…and then go beyond all ideas. Freedom is what you are. Namasté and love, Selena Sage // selenasage.com // email: selena@selenasage.com // Fb+IG: Selena Sage - Author

“You don’t become happy, you become aware that that you already are.” — Frode // This lovely quote inspired this episode. Remember, Zen is not art or science…it is simply a realization. Know this and know that you are happiness itself. Namasté. Love, Selena Sage // selenasage.com // email: selena@selenasage.com // Fb+IG: Selena Sage — Author

Inspired to share messages of freedom and peace from Zen Master Bodhidharma, Sri Papaji, and Sri Neem Karoli Baba. Remain unattached in the eternal now and flow like a moving river to be truly free. Namasté and love, Selena Sage // selenasage.com // email: selena@selenasage.com // Fb+IG: Selena Sage - Author and Instantly Zen

Reading from the Ashtavakra Gita (“Heart of Awareness” by Thomas Byrom), the message is to recognize the nature of things and be still. When you know that all sorrow comes from fear, you become free of it, and desire melts away. Flow freely and ask, “What would I do if I felt most secure?” Drop your fear and know that Grace will carry you. So much love to you always, Selena Sage // selenasage.com...

In the Ramayana, Sri Hanuman said to Lord Rama, “Faith is the highest blessing,” and requested faith as his boon. Lao Tzu encouraged us to recognize the ego as a monkey catapulting through the jungle and to remain in the center watching, then forget you’re there. Ramakrishna advised that if one can’t release the ego, one should let it remain as a servant of God. // While Faith is most aligned with...

Gratitude and love flood my being as I record this first podcast episode from my travels around America! Honored to share my adventures with you and thankful for your love and support. Zen IS the Awareness that is described so beautifully in the Ashtavakra Gita (“Heart of Awareness” by Thomas Byrom). Peace is your true nature. Namasté and love, Selena Sage // selenasage.com // email: selena@selena...

“You are not the mind, you are not the body.” What does this mean? Meditating on the question, “Who Am I?” Is meant to guide you to your changeless, true nature. Discover this and be free! Namasté and love, Selena Sage // selenasage.com // email: selena@selenasage.com // Fb+IG: Selena Sage - Author

“Otherness” can only be from the state of the person. Awareness is Oneness. Also inspired to share a verse from “Hua Hu Ching” by Brian Walker as my original message was only two minutes haha ;) Namasté and love, Selena Sage // selenasage.com // email: selena@selenasage.com // Fb+IG: Selena Sage - Author

Inspired by washing my own dishes, sharing a reminder from a Zen story and real life examples of transformation to remind that you have to release the lower to reach the higher. Namasté and love, Selena Sage // selenasage.com // email: selena@selenasage.com // Fb+IG: Selena Sage - Author

Inspired by a remembered dream, this short talk simply exposes our true nature as Silence....which is just another name for Peace. May you continue to rest in and as Silence. Namasté and love, Selena Sage // selenasage.com // email: selena@selenasage.com // Fb+IG: Selena Sage - Author