By Brian Thompson
Podcast by Brian Thompson
In this week’s episode, I discuss the importance of observing the activities of mind, as they happen, and not reacting to its illusory mental projections. The mind is never satisfied. It continually bounces back and forth between desire and fear, sadness...
I’m back! I took an unexpected couple of months off from writing and podcasting, but here I Am… and hopefully the pointings I have to share are even more clear and precise than before. In this new podcast episode I...
Join me in a meditation of Self, an inquiry into understanding the true nature of this knowing presence that you are and that I am. Self-Inquiry, otherwise known as atma-vichara in Sanskrit, is a tool used in Advaita Vedanta’s seminal practice...
In this week's new episode I share some pointers to help awaken you to your true nature, which is a peaceful presence of pure consciousness, free from the mind's dream-like influence. Our continual stream of thoughts seem to rule our every...
This week's episode focusses on becoming aware of the subtle quality of "noticing" that enables every experience to appear. Underneath every sensation and perception rests your presence of awareness, which is the absolute reality upon which all things rely—both conceptual and...
Underneath every concept of yourself and the world, there exists a still and silent presence of Being which is ever-present. This is your true Self—a pure and unconditioned Presence. This aware presence that you are is the universal principle that gives...
This week's new episode discusses how happiness is synonymous with the end of desire. Surrender all desires to your awareness of them—including your desire for happiness itself. If there is any senses of personal lack or wanting, whatsoever, happiness will continue...
This week's episode points towards the aware presence of your true Self. Ever since you were young you were taught that you were that face in the mirror—that "that" image is you! You've then lived your entire life in relation to what...
This week's podcast focusses on recognizing all of the things which condition you—in other words, whatever causes you to emotionally react. As you observe yourself and become aware of your reactions to people, places, or things, you begin to isolate the...
In this week's new episode I use the technique of Self-Inquiry to zero in on the stream of "I-thoughts" that seem to pervade every perception and experience. It is the I-thought that creates the imagined false self (the ego) and that...
In this week’s new episode, I discuss being mindful of your knowing presence. After all, your sense of knowingness is your Self. Unfortunately, however, we are continually distracted from it by that which appears within it. As we navigate through our...
In this week's episode I discuss how the only thing that you suffer from is your own self-concept. It is what you believe "You" are (or aren't) that is the cause of all your problems, and it is whatever you believe...
This week's episode is a little different. It begins with a slow and meditative exploration into the nature of being. It's an inner-contemplation that examines the presence of awareness that you are, investigating the essence of consciousness itself. If you've ever considered...
This week's episode zeroes in on the true experience of what it means to be alive—that we are 'reality', experiencing itself. We are not separate from reality, reality IS what we are. In fact, reality appears within us, as us. But, the...
Today's episode focuses on the importance of being aware of your assumptions. In most cases, our assumptions are subconscious. Since we are unconsciousness to them, they appear to be real and we overlook their unreality—rather than seeing them as the illusions...
In this week's episode I investigate the nature of experiencing, which shapes the very nature of our sense of being. I discuss how the conditioned mind interacts with the processing of perceptions—interpreting each sensation with its prior conditioning, concepts and beliefs,...
In this week's episode I discuss the many different false projections of mind that distort our perception of reality, and what you can do to ignore them and become immune to them—transcending them entirely. We never really struggle with reality itself,...
This week's episode is about understanding the nature of pain, no matter if its physical or emotional, and why we suffer from it. Pain happens. But suffering? That's a choice. To suffer means to self-identify with both the pain and its apparent...
This week's episode is about realizing our true self-nature, that is always ever-present, by revealing all that is false within. By continually questioning our perceptions of the world, and inquiring into where our beliefs arise from, and how, and why—we thereby...
In this week's new episode I investigate the nature of what it means to exist, using the Advaita practice of Self-Inquiry (or, Atma Vichara). Through self-inquiry, the idea of the personal "me" is revealed to be nothing other than a mis-perceived...
In this week's episode I discuss using a practice of self-inquiry to empty the mind of its mistaken beliefs to reveal the bliss of the don't-know mind. When the ego is silenced and the mind no longer tries to assert its...
In this week's new episode I discuss how everything we experience in life is filtered through our own beliefs, memories and conditionings. No matter what we perceive, it's always shaped by the contents of our mind and distorted by the ego. To...
In this week's episode I discuss the only reality there is, the one that is here, now. Most people overlook the truth of reality because they're lost within the dream of conceptual thinking. When we live inside a world of thought...
In this week's episode I discuss how spiritual enlightenment isn't a special state-of-being to be acquired, it's already your true nature. All that's required to wake up is to surrender your pre-conceived self-identity and realize that which you already are—an...
This week's episode is about transcending the concept of "Me"—which is, the personalized sense of a body/mind self that you believe yourself to be. All problems, confusion, suffering and existential struggle arises from that which you attach to the Me-thought—which is...
In this week's episode I discuss how our perception of reality is continually distorted by whatever concepts we happen to believe in and by whatever stories we're presently telling ourselves. Our experiences happen only within our own consciousness, and how we...
This week's new episode is all about realizing your own beingness. When you bask in your own presence, without any distraction, and you allow all thought to settle... what is the nature of your aware essence? In this inner silence, ask yourself,...
This week's episode is a little different from previous ones, in that much of it is a stream-of-conscious discussion regarding the peace of being that can only be found in inner silence. I also share a little tool of mindfulness to...
In this week's episode I discuss one of the fundamental teachings in non-duality—you are not the 'doer', you are the witnessing presence to things being done. Your true self is not the subject of its experiences, it is the ever-present perceiving...
In this week's episode I discuss the stillness of our true nature and how, by simply abiding in its innate quietness, we find the happiness we've always sought. I also discuss how objects and things do not actually exist—including us—but...
This week's episode is about revealing the false self that you perceive yourself to be—that you lovingly refer to as, Me—as the false perception that it truly is. Your person is your problem. When you place your well-being in the hands of...
In this week’s episode I’m joined by special guest, Carmella Whitehead, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, for a conversation that explores the nature of consciousness in our day to day lives, personal realizations that lead to inner change, and...
In this week's episode I explore the illusion of free will, revealing that all of our actions are almost entirely predetermined, shaped by the conditioning of our consciousness and minds. Our life is a projection of consciousness in consciousness—it is...
This week's episode is an inquiry of sorts into Awareness, which is the source of the "I" we refer to ourselves by. Your "I" gives you the sense of "I am", which is the very presence of being that has...
This week's episode is about recognizing the mistakes in our perceptions that create a dreamlike world of ignorance and delusion—a world that leads to nothing but suffering. When we see through this illusion of mind however, we become able to free...
In this week's episode I discuss perceiving our perceptions and being cognizant of the false duality that arises when we believe ourselves to be the perceiver, or rather, the subject to which experience occurs to. The truth of reality however, is...
In this week's episode I discuss the natural law of impermanence and how its presence underlies all things. From our thoughts and feelings, to our possessions and way of life, to the ones we love—no thing can escape death or transitional...
This week's episode is about getting rid of our preconceived notions, opinions, beliefs, and judgements—both about ourselves and the world around us—so that we can just BE. When we choose to ignore all of the subjective imaginings from our minds, we...
In this week's episode I discuss the knowing that is our True Self, Awareness. There's an incredible spiritual breakthrough that's available to anyone, simply through realizing that "you" are not the contents of your mind, but rather, "you" are that which...
This week's episode is about understanding consciousness and understanding how we experience our own experiences. What is the nature of our moment-to-moment experiencing? What is it composed of? What part does the self play in interpreting our sense perceptions? Where...
This week I discuss how simply observing and questioning our every thought and can lead to a freedom we've never before experienced. Once we recognize and realize the subjective futility of our thinking, we can begin to distance ourselves from believing...
In this week's episode I discuss how everything within our experience is mind. Everything. All of our beliefs, all of our opinions, all of our worries, all of pleasures and pains, all of our desires, all of our perceptions—they're all created by...
In this week's episode I explore the formless nature of consciousness permeating all of our perceptions, that forms the emptiness of awareness that all manners of subjectivity exist within. Thanks for listening, I hope you enjoy the episode. ★ If you enjoy...
In this week's episode I discuss the infinite, non-dual nature of our unlimited Awareness (our True Self). When we place restrictions on our pure-Self through false projections of a mind that has decided to take everthing personally—we distort the truth of...
This week's episode is about becoming empty of self, or rather, becoming empty of the false perceptions that have come to shape your life, your experiences, your world view, and all of your emotions. In the emptiness of nothing, we become...
This week's episode is about challenging the ego to a life or death duel in search for truth. Most of what we perceive in the world—including our universe within—is a fabrication of mind. What we believe to be true, isn't....
In this week's episode I talk about the empty nature of words and language, and how they are entirely unable to express the true nature of direct experience. It is the words that echo inside our heads that cause us to...
In this week's episode I discuss how our perceived sense of self is created (and maintained) by all of the things we identify with, which then goes on to create the virtual reality we exist within. It's nothing more than one...
This episode is all about waking up. It's about seeing through the veil with which we've shrouded our reality in—a veil of conceptual thought. When we're able to recognize that all of our perceptions are distorted by mind, which differ from the...
This episode is available in both video and audio. This week I’m joined by special guest Kimberley Blaine, a licensed therapist and a mindfulness and empowerment thought leader. Join us as we discuss a variety of issues from dealing with the selfish...
