The Art and Science of Happiness with Turiya Moore

Most of us have been fooled most of our lives. What we seek will not be found in things or in others. True happiness is not complex, it's simple. Why is it that we put so much energy into things that are not important to achieving our own most cherished goals? When does true happiness happen?

Recorded at Free Monday Night Guided Meditation and Lecture August 7, 2017.

Whatever your purpose is in life, whatever it is that that you really think is important, I would say don't be fooled! Don't be fooled by other things. If other things get in the way of what you really want to become or be doing with your life, don't be fooled by what everybody says and what everybody does and what seems normal. Just be a complete freak of nature, follow your heart and do what really inspires you and makes your heart feel good inside and you'll be inspiration not just for yourself but everybody around you.

Recorded at Free Monday Night Guided Meditation and Lecture on July 31, 2017.

Life is a school. Life is a playground and a school, it's the same thing. And it has a purpose and we come here to learn and we come here to learn who we are and eventually we come here to learn it because what drives us is that we want to be happy. And we want freedom, we want to be able to ride the bike as fast as we can and feel like we're just free. Everybody wants to be free.

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Yoga science offers two directions for happiness and fulfillment. Both are important and needed to balance each other.

Look at a young child, one that hasn't learnt to mask his feelings yet and when he's happy and enthusiastic, he has an erect spine and he even wants to jump, right? and then if he's got something really weighing down on him and he's unhappy, he slouches, he'd be all folded up on the couch like this and Mom would be like "What's wrong?". You can see it from the outside – the movement of energy inside the body.

A guided meditation with silence that ends with healing visualization for planetary peace and harmony.

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A short starter for meditation that you can use to get started and allows you to continue in silence as long as you wish.

A 14 minute guided meditation for beginners with Turiya Moore, recorded at Meditation Unlimited in Torrance, CA on May 15, 2017.

"Good health is more than a state of not being ill. It is a radiant state of inner wellbeing. Physical illnesses may be cured by medicines. No medicine however can induce that state of boundless energy which comes when every cell in the body cooperates with the mind willingly, joyfully in all that it seeks to do. Such radiant wellbeing comes after the mind has been cleared of every shadow of unwillingness, of fear and of doubt when one has learned to say "yes" to life and when one has learned to love." – Affirmations for Self-Healing by Swami Kriyananda

Recorded at Meditation Unlimited, Torrance CA during Monday Free Guided Meditation for Beginners. April 24, 2017 http://meditationunlimited.com/

How enthusiasm can help us better achieve our long term goals and be happier, how limitations we create by being overly concerned or attached to specific outcomes, and developing intuition and greater sensitivity to the experience and needs of others and how to better serve them.

Recorded live at Meditation Unlimited in Torrance, CA April, 17, 2017 with Turiya Moore.

So you watch the little waves, they blow with life changes. Wind is like emotions and changing conditions and sometimes it's turbulent and sometimes it's calm and these little waves just blow like little victims from one side of the ocean to the other, then they crash on the beach and die. Yet the ocean never changed. The volume of the ocean never changed, the depth never changed, the whole ocean is the same, untouched, uninvolved, but completely there and present in the experience of the wave. So this is how in yoga they explain that is like the individualized spirit that is identified as a separate reality, the ego. And if it would just relax! You know how they say – the bigger they are, the harder they fall. The more we're identified with this "I"-ness, if it's in the wrong way, the more we suffer with ups and downs, like really big wins and then really terrible losses, because it's all about "me" and because we're like these waves that are crashing right? One approach to meditation is to see it as we watch the breath or we concentrate on other things that are happening inwardly, as a way to take us away from our identity as something that's unique, separate and limited and merge our awareness, reconnect with our ultimate potential as something much greater and much more permanent than a human body and the current personality and thought processes that we experience as our own.

This is a talk from our Free Monday Meditation Series. Recorded at Meditation Unlimited in Torrance, CA on April 10, 2017