Adyashanti explains clearly what enlightenment really is, and what it is not. Mainly, that enlightenment is not an altered state of consciousness as what most people believe. What we perceive every day through the distorted lens of ego is the truly altered state. Enlightenment, on the other hand, is perceiving things as they really are, [...]

Howard Martin from the Institute of HeartMath presents scientific research regarding heart intelligence, and how our thoughts and emotions create patterns of coherence or incoherence in our electromagnetic energy field and possibly influence the earth’s own geomagnetic field in positive or negative ways. Transcript About Transcript Transcript: It’s an honor and privilege to be here [...]

Benedictine monk Laurence Freeman, Director of The World Community for Christian Meditation, expounds on the teachings of Jesus regarding prayer and contemplation. Fr. Freeman describes the different elements of the teaching and their practical applications that lead to finding God within. Transcript About Transcript Video Transcript: Jesus is called a teacher more often than by [...]

Mark Robert Waldman, Associate Fellow at the Center for Spirituality and the Mind, University of Pennsylvania, reveals current research on the effects of meditation on universal, positive ideas on the brain. He currently conducts research with Andrew Newberg, MD, on the neurological correlates of beliefs, morality, compassion, meditation, religious experiences, and spiritual practices. Mark is [...]

Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh explains what Nirvana is. According to him, Nirvana is the freedom from wrong ideas and perceptions and that views of any kind, such as birth and death, coming and going, being and non-being, do not represent reality. Transcript About Transcript The sacred texts [...]

Deepak Chopra explains how to meditate properly using the mantra in a way that leads to experience of pure awareness–without thought and without mantra. The emphasis is not to force anything to happen. Transcript About Transcript Video Transcript: It’s very important to understand the mechanics of meditation, because most people don’t do it right. They [...]

This teaching is taken from “Immovable Wisdom” written by Takuan, the Japanese Zen Buddhist Master. Takuan Soho (1573-1645) was a master of calligraphy, painting, gardening, martial arts, and the teacher of the Shogun Iemitsu, Yagyu Tajima-no-Kami (founder of Japan’s greatest swordsmanship school) and Miyamoto Musashi (author of The Book of Five Rings). Video transcript: “Where [...]

Nonduality teacher Rupert Spira talks about the difference between meditation as an activity of the mind and meditation as the abiding in the true nature of the self as pure awareness. Transcript About Transcript Video transcript: We normally consider that meditation is some kind of activity of the mind. It’s a focusing of the mind, [...]

Vedic meditation Gary Gorrow explains how the vedic meditation technique works. The ancient Rishis realized that man could find tremendous resources through the development of his consciousness and the Vedic Meditation technique is the result of thousands of years of research and investigation into the subtle inner workings of the mind, body and being. Transcript [...]