What does “Life is an Illusion Mean” and what does it have to do with your electricity bill? I mean, you have your real life, while there are many spiritual statements that seem to indicate there is an ultimate reality and it is different than what we see as real and true now. In this talk, I want to show what the source of the confusion is here and how each and every one of us can get a clear sense, from our own direct experience, of what can be meant by such things as “moving from the unreal to the real” in meditation. The post Talk 14: Reality and Illusion in Meditation appeared first on ..read more

There is a natural joy always here. Where is it? This question is an important one that requires radical honesty to answer, yet it is otherwise simple and natural to get into contact with this fount of aliveness. The post Talk 11: Feel the Natural Joy appeared first on I Should Be Meditating ..read more

In this guided meditation on the breath the emphasis is on receptivity, sensitivity, and opening. By offering up the breath sensations to the world to which they belong, we also cultivate an attitude of allowing everything to be as it is. The post 50: Surrender to the Breath appeared first on I Should Be Meditating ..read more

The tensions between meditation and our natural state are explored through great questions about restlessness, how to begin a practice, and what the “inner mental attitude” is all about . This is the straight raw recording of our live online video stream with call-in questions. You can join the next one! The post Live Call-in Show! Sept. 10, 2014 appeared first on I Should Be Meditating ..read more

This guided meditation begins with a 3 step settling process and then explores feelings of exchanging the breath between the interior feeling of alive presence, and the greater world beyond the body, surrounding the body. It contains a balance and exchange between active enjoyment of the breath and surrender to whole world and universe in which the breath takes place. The post 46: Exploring the Breath from the Inside and Out appeared first on I Should Be Meditating ..read more

  Use this when you don’t have a lot of time but want to be consistent with your practice and not skip a day. Or as a quick pick-me-up anytime you need to re-establish intimate contact with your breath again. Then again, when is that not a good thing to do? The post 31: Short Guided Meditation on the Breath appeared first on I Should Be Meditating ..read more

This guided contemplation points to something essential that every meditator must see and understand if they are to go beyond worry over wandering mind. There are many ways to deal with wandering thoughts, but the most important and most powerful is to see the knowing that is beyond wandering or not-wandering. Recognize this and your life will change. Recognize it more and more, and your life will change more and more. The post 43: Meditation for Seeing Beyond a Wandering Mind appeared first on I Should Be Meditating ..read more

Mindfulness and Awareness can mean two very different things– what is the benefit we meditators can have from drawing this distinction? What does it point to? The post Talk 6: What is Awareness? appeared first on I Should Be Meditating ..read more

This guided meditation starts with a soothing breath to feel your way into the core of the breath-body and from your alive, sensitive presence, and then guides you to remain there, to enjoy your being now and to more easily return to it in the midst of busy life. The post 40: Feel Your Way into Your Being appeared first on I Should Be Meditating ..read more

[Podcast] Life is constantly in flux, often presenting changing situations you need to adapt to. This guided meditation is a practice in two (or maybe three) techniques for training to become flexible, adaptable. Understanding that peace of mind can already happen. Here. Now. By practicing mindful meditation we become well rounded and ready for anything. Join in! The post 57: Guided Training in Two Meditation Skills appeared first on I Should Be Meditating ..read more