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 permanence and impermanence. We touch the ground of being and see that which we have called being and nonbeing are just notions. Nothing is ever lost. Nothing is ever gained."

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 the infinite as the finite. However, even as sun dispels mist inquiry into the nature of the Self dispels this ignorant self limiting tendency. In fact, the very desire to undertake this inquiry is able to bring about change. Austerities, and such other practices are of no use in this when the mind is purified of its past, by the arising of wisdom, it abandons its previous tendencies. The mind seeks the Self only in order to dissolve itself in the Self. This indeed is the very nature of mind. This is the extreme goal; strive for this.”

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 not become clear in you until it is heard again and again and meditated upon again and again."

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 seed is the “I”-idea, with all its branches, fruits and leaves, and rest in the space in the heart.”

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."