Learn To Meditate Podcast
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This beginners meditation course features a variety of meditation techniques including mantra, meditating with the breath and music, concentration and meditation on a object. Each class includes a discussion topic and a guided meditation exercise. The Meditation Society of Australia (http://meditation.org.au) has no religious, political or financial affiliations, it is a community organisation designed to help people meditate.
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this is sensational, February 09, 2007
Reviewer: sunirmalya
this course is the best. I just hope they keep coming. Great guided meditation at the end of very insightful classes.
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Meditation - the new common sense
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Wed, Sep 27, 2006
Most people find that after some time, the benefits of meditation are revealed in their life, even before they fully understand what meditation is. This is normal. Remember that meditation is an experience of the heart and not of the mind, for us to learn how to meditate, we need to trust the messages of our heart.
This is a short video introduction to meditation. It speaks of a new common sense that puts the sacred art of meditation aside from just the religious traditions of the past, and involves meditation with every day and every endeavour of our lives.
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Class 1 - Meditation for Beginners
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Wed, Sep 27, 2006
Meditation is an extremely simple process. It follows three distinct steps; we start with the superficial, scattered mind, we then progress by virtue of our hearts concentration - to deeper, analytical thinking and finally from this very deep thinking we enter into intuitive states, revelations, "I know this is right" feelings or extremely vivid goals or intense creativity or spiritual dreams. When thinking stops and intuitive experience takes over, this is meditation.
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Class 2 - The Meaning of Life
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Wed, Sep 27, 2006
How are we supposed to have clear life goals if we do not know why we are here? Wisdom requires not thought but experience, it always feels very simple as it is a revelation of our real self. It is a meditation experience.
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Class 3 - The Path of the Heart
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Wed, Sep 27, 2006
Simply put, if we allow ourselves to be thinking negatively, to be caught up in hate or anger or restlessness and worry, then we are going to view the world through that state of mind. It is as if we are wearing a pair of glasses that warps our vision in a negative way.
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Class 4 - The Path of the Heart (cont)
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Wed, Nov 1, 2006
It is a journey of the opening heart and the letting go of all that binds it. For our journey a vehicle is necessary. This vehicle has four wheels and they need to be perfectly balanced. The wheels of our vehicle are our body, vital (emotions), mind and heart.
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Class 5 - Learning to learn
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Thu, Nov 2, 2006
A valuable person is one who believes that he/she can do anything. With no fear of new tasks there is enormous potential and the possibility to learn quickly, quietly and efficiently. This is the basis of ‘Positive Learning’ and lies at the heart of a meditation lifestyle. ‘Positive Learning’ utilises ‘chunking’ or designing a simple step-by-step process that paces a skill into smaller achievable tasks. For example if you were learning to play the guitar, you might begin by learning how to place your fingers on the fretboard for two simple chords. Then with practise you might try a few more, until eventually you would be able to play a complete song. As we break down our learning process into steps, we find a circular procedure being formed the ‘Success Spiral’.
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Class 6 - Loving, Learning and Laughter
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Thu, Nov 9, 2006
Sometimes we wonder about the decisions we make. Are they from the mind or the heart? We might ask - 'Is this a decision that is unveiling my highest possible destiny or perhaps just an easy, comfortable solution that fits into my outer life?'
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Class 7 - The evolving thought
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Sat, Nov 18, 2006
The journey for every thought is from gross physical or material desire to love in all its flavours: from romance to real wisdom or truth. Â
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Class 8 - Praise and Gratitude
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Wed, Nov 22, 2006
Topics include: 'Praise and Gratitude'. The great masters have always talked about gratitude as the great opener of the heart. That by offering gratitude we actually increase the heart’s receptivity. What a wonderful opportunity we have with such a simple dynamic as a ‘thank you’.
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Class 9 - Constructing Heaven
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Sat, Dec 9, 2006
As we release ourselves from the outer constructs of ourselves what naturally radiates from the inmost recesses of our existence is the lightness and freedom and joy of the real – the kingdom of heaven within us – that defines our real and eternal nature. Is it not also uncanny the fact that when we are in the dark we feel ourselves imprisoned, enslaved – that even though our conditioning usually paints freedom as the ability to have any material or physical need immediately fulfilled – the reality of the darkness is that far from freeing – it enchains us.
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Class 10 - To Be
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Mon, Dec 11, 2006
It is very easy to philosophize and talk and muse about all kinds of deep spiritual perspectives, but from the point of view of our actual spiritual progress, what we ‘be’ is the most important thing. That is, how we live our spirituality.
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Class 11 - The Ego and the Soul
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Tue, Jan 30, 2007
Topics include: 'The Ego and the Soul'.
In this class you will understand the roles of the ego and the soul and learn to discern your inner voice. The single most asked question we have come across is "how do I tell what are the messages of my ego and those of my soul?" To be true the ego and the soul have an existence within each other and so there is a measure of blurring between their realities but for the purposes of this class, let's separate them at their poles, so that we might more easily understand their nature and where they overlap.
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Class 12 - Offering and Receiving Love
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Thu, 1,
2007 Feb, 19:27:47
Topics Include: "Offering and Receiving Love" - It is impossible to feel unhappy when we are offering love for real joy is the result of the flow of love.
There is no more 'in-nature' a state, no closer to heaven, in fact, heaven's singular characteristic is the constant offering of love. To be sure, heaven wishes nothing more than to flow through each of us, empowering and inspiring us with the infinite, spiritual force of the universe.
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Class 13 - Work
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Thu, Feb 1, 2007
Topics Include: how to work easily with no stress and high efficiency and how to direct your spiritual life effortlessly to more and more of your so-called "outer life"
Often in doing these classes, a common problem is the management of 'outer' work activities and our spiritual lives. The overwhelming complaint is that all this meditation and spiritual activity is fine for the time that we are not involved in our jobs and ‘outer’ lives, but what do we do then? Obviously, the goal is not to create two separate lives, but rather to blend a much more holistic sense of self.
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Class 14 - Oneness and Humility
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Mon, Mar 5, 2007
Topics Include: Understand the difference between intellectual belief and spiritual realisation and how to practise humility. The human ego is a wonderful tool, but can also leave us in a wonderful mess. It is very common for those studying spiritual philosophy to feel that their intellectual understanding is a spiritual truth, but this is a particularly dangerous trap! Everything understood must also be realised.
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Class 15 - Living our Spiritual Lives
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Fri, Mar 9, 2007
Topics Include: practising a walking meditation and contemplating the process of meditation in action. Most of us have spent our lives living 'outside' of our real nature. We often have confused the desires of our body, ego and intellect, with the divine wishes of our soul. If you just reflect upon for a moment the way we habitually walk anywhere currently, you might be aware that most of the time, we are thinking about another place we want to be, or things we have to do, or any number of extraneous thoughts. We rarely are conscious of the present moment, and our heart and soul in the process of walking. Meditation, our spiritual life, seeks to redress the balance. It seeks to deepen every moment of our lives with the richness of experience of our own heart.
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Class 16 - Letting Go
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Fri, Mar 30, 2007
Topics Include:
Sometimes the hardest thing to do in our spiritual lives is to let go. There are so many chains that we drag around with us. Chains that might be attached to the heaviest, most cumbersome loads but we struggle on, fighting against our own very nature most of the time, because we simply do not know how to, or fear, letting go.
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Class 17 - String Theory
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Wed, May 30, 2007
Topics Include:
Explore the energy within the universe and look at 'string theory' and how it relates spiritually.
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Class 18 - Life Changers
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Mon, Jun 4, 2007
Topics Include:
In my own life, I came to a point where I was amazed at how little I knew about how to increase the quality of my life. I was happy, but I was not getting any happier, and I had no idea how to increase my happiness.
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Class 19 - Enthusiasm and Inspiration
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Tue, Jul 24, 2007
Topics Include:
Our daily meditation can sometimes become stale. We find ourselves having trouble getting new inspiration or enthusiasm. We sit to meditate and without inspiration our meditation might become a bit of a day dream, or we could find ourselves nodding off to sleep.
We need to continuously look for ways for our meditation to evolve, ways to increase our enthusiasm and inspiration.
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Class 20 - The first twenty, now where?
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Tue, Jul 24, 2007
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The 20th class is a great achievement - well done! We'd really like to thank you for letting us into your spiritual life and we hope that you have enjoyed the classes so far. This class is all about assimilation. How you can live your spiritual life most effectively.
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Class 21 - Guilt
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Mon, Jan 7, 2008
Topics Include:
Understand more about guilt and how to use it for yourself. Learn about constructive and destructive negatives. In the next few classes, we are going to talk about some of these, namely guilt, anger, fear and more. The one thing you will notice is that negative qualities are energy black-holes, they drain us very, very quickly by taxing our attention and focus and diverting us from the energy-giving divine within us all.
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Class 22 - Anger
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Fri, Jan 11, 2008
Topics Include:
How anger is really a cry for us to act. When we are angry we do not listen, we react without thinking, we feel unsafe, alone and threatened. Our lives can become hellish if we are often angry, especially for those that are unable to have an outlet for their anger, not to mention those that do have an outlet - for often it is the less physically powerful that receive the brunt of anger's violence.
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Class 23 - Fear
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Wed, Jan 23, 2008
Topics Include:
Fear - a positive place to start. When we speak of fear, we speak of the most profound of all negativities. Profound because fear is the root of all negativity, and because it most clearly exposes us to the most powerful of all dangers, the loss of awareness of our real self, our soul. It is the ego that fears, not the soul. It's ultimate fear is to lose itself. This is why death scares it so much. It is sure it is all there is, so death means extinction. It also fears what it perceives to be separate from itself. Other people. Nature. The Wind. A storm. Fate. Animals. Even one’s own soul. The soul knows that we are not separate from each other. We are one. So why should we fear? The soul says ‘there is nothing to fear. Even time or death are but manifestations of our eternal experience.’
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Class 24 - Birthdays
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Thu, Feb 21, 2008
Topics Include:
The birthday is an extremely important day to the spiritual aspirant. Whether we realize it or not we do arrive at a particular time and place for a specific reason. There is nothing random about you being born on the date and time you were born.For this reason we should treat our birthdays with real reverence.
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Class 25 - Listening
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Fri, Jun 6, 2008
There is a great deal of benefit to be derived from simply listening in almost every dimension of life but in particular in the spiritual life.
To listen is a requirement for any spiritual evolution. It is the foundation of change. Without listening we cannot transform ourselves.
It is listening that keeps us young and flexible. And it is not listening that ages us and makes us stagnant and unyielding.
To listen to another is the first doorway to the flow of love between you.
To listen to oneself is the doorway to the infinite flow of love within and between all things.
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Class 26 - Depression
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Fri, Jun 6, 2008
Topics Include:
Understand more about depression and how to treat it spiritually
Find out the causes of depression
Depression is a very serious condition.
This class is not designed to be a cure-all for everyone, but it is hoped it will help inspire with a spiritual approach.
Many times people with depression will feel helpless to change their current state, as though there is no point or that no-one can help. Depression often follows anger and helplessness. We quite often are literally beating ourselves up. Many times people that suffer from depression are extremely intelligent, very sensitive and compassionate people. Their sense of helplessness parallels the same spiral people suffering from anger travel into resentment and stress related illnesses (mentioned in class 22- Anger).
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Class 27 - Learning from the Negatives
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Sun, Jun 8, 2008
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For the last few classes we have been talking about ‘so-called’ negative qualities. To summarise all negatives are really just the bludgeon of change. Every negative quality is actually just a wall we hit as the last stop before we learn and grow. It was the Dalai Lama that said that there isn’t a big problem that did not start as a small one.
This is true of all pain. Believe it or not, there is not a thing that happens in the world for no reason. Just as if a child was about to burn himself by putting his hand into a flame, an adult would yell and grab the child from harms way. The child might cry with the shock of being yanked to safety but most of us would say that that pain was necessary so the child would learn and grow.
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." Anonymous
So it is for us exactly the same. Each so-called ‘negative’ that we experience remains negative while we experience it as a negative. For the child, we all say to the child ‘look you were so lucky, we saved you from being burned’. We try to teach the child that the pain was actually a positive experience because now it has learned and it will act differently. If this works the child will forget the pain of being saved, he will act differently and the lesson will be learned. If it did not get the lesson properly – it might feel angry or resentful at the pain the adult that ‘saved’ it inflicted and not learn a valuable lesson. In effect, the child would allow the pain to be swallowed down and fester inside the child, in resentment or anger.
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Class 28 - Living Your Bliss
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Thu, Jun 12, 2008
Topics Include:
Understand how blissful life actually is.
For many to live in bliss is a fantasy.
To be happy is not seen as a permanent state but as a kind of fleeting moment, a gift that fate might offer from time to time. Some people even think of too much happiness as being slightly delusional or uncaring for those that are suffering. It is simply unimaginable that a person could live free from suffering, free from the occasional nightmare, free from anxiety or pain, free from any or all negativity.
But to live in bliss is possible.
It is not length of life, but depth of life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not only possible but inevitable.
Our most natural state is actually blissful. Many of us think we naturally are in a struggle with life, that we have to fight against fate, that we have to take what we need or we will be left behind.
The opposite is true. We are naturally really happy beings. Our experience of fate is dictated by our choices, by our thoughts and intentions. The universe is actually incredibly abundant. It is only that we have created a series of illusions that stop us from experiencing our real blissful nature.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others. - Chinese Proverb
To be very simple about this, the universe is love manifest. Stop for a second and get that. Make sure you understand that sentence. The universe is love manifest. When we experience this, we are blissful. When we are caught thinking the physical images that love projects through are the reality, we are not. It really is that simple.
Our problem is complicating our lives. With every complication we give more credence to the illusion than to the reality.
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Class 29 - Charity & Oneness
Author: Meditation Society of Australia
Sat, Jun 14, 2008
Topics Include:
Understand the relationship between charity and oneness.
Roger walked into what was sometimes known as 'The Lost City' and was immediately struck by the level of suffering. This was not one or two homeless and hungry, this was tens of thousands of lost, lonely and painful souls. There were those bankrupt, those ostracised for their colour, religion, their weight or lack of weight, their ugly faces or scars or criminal record, their sexuality, their violence, their mental illness, their lack of education. There were people everywhere, in everyone’s faces, most were barely conscious from a cocktail of alcohol and drugs and petrol and paint cans. Everyone was on top of everyone and all they seemed to want was distance.
A mess of urine and faeces littered the landscape but mostly it choked Rogers breath. He could barely breathe without feeling he was going to vomit. Involuntarily already he had dry wretched but had been able to hide it feebly behind a movement of his hand.
He stared away not because he meant to, but because he physically could not get his eyes to look. He had never seen anything like it. This lack of human dignity, lack of human self-worth.
Then he recognised a face, a shining light, a nerdy, gawky looking girl he recognised from high school. She caught his eyes immediately and smiled. There was nothing at all attractive about her physically but in this place she exuded warmth and presence. All the suffering people around her seemed to gather another breath as she walked past.
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