Meditation and Beyond
In Meditation and Beyond you will discover a uniquely different approach to meditation. There are two traditional aims of meditation. The first is cultivating a healthy human life. The second is transcending our limited day-to-day consciousness to discover our true self and its extraordinary qualities of human flourishing. Our first session begins by focusing on two quick and sure methods of calming the mind. Whenever your mind is out of control, these will be your go-to practices.one that is simple, surprisingly effortless, and goes directly to the essence of meditation. The first aim of meditation is to diminish, stress, calm the mind, decrease reactivity, and improve the quality of our relationships. The second aim of meditation is the heart and true essence of meditation. This approach cuts through the limitations of day-to-day living and reveals the precious gold of human life - a sustained serenity, natural wisdom, unchanging happiness, and boundless freedom. . We learn how to meditate in an entirely new and effortless way. Let’s join together on the journey of a lifetime. If you are ready, you will discover life’s treasures.
May I suggest you refer to my latest book, Meditation and Beyond, available through Amazon as support and more for these podcasts. you may also find further resources on my website: www.elliottdacher.org
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 18 minutes
- Episodes
- 53
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
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Meeting Life's Challenging Circumstances
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Transcend Your Personal Self
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Accessing Your Natural Stillness
Welcome to Beyond Meditation and this episode Accessing Your Natural Stillness. It is in our larger self that we experience natural stillness – a stillness and clarity which progressively bring distr…
The Treasure of Human Flourishing
As a perfume naturally and spontaneously arises from its flower, our natural empty/aware self has a perfume as well - the qualities of human flourishing. These qualities are seamlessly interwoven in…
Integration: Bringing it Home
In the previous session we experienced the Practice of Direct Awakening. Utilizing this practice we directly drop into and experience our true self. In this episode we will explore how to integrate t…
Knowing Your True Self
Welcome to the next podcast of The Practice of Direct Awakening. Previously, we explored the essence of our true self. We learned that our natural self is both empty of the usual mental content an…
Awakening to Your Authentic Self
Your authentic self is both empty of the usual mental content and aware of moment-to-moment experience. We can say, our true self is empty awareness. It is empty of personal history, fully aware of t…
Revealing Your True Self
Welcome to our fourth session of The Practice of Direct Awakening. The practices we’ve already explored bring us towards the first aim of meditation – cultivating a healthy human life. In this sessio…
Cultivating an Awareness-Based Meditation Practice
Using the foundation of a calm mind, we will practice cultivating a pure, clear, and unconditioned awareness, which is essential ground of meditation. Pure unconditioned awareness - awareness that is…
Overcoming the Overactive Mind
A still mind is a prerequisite for accessing our full human possibilities. Rather than relying exclusively on the usual methods to still the mind, we will now learn to overcome the overactive mind th…
Meditation and Beyond: The Two Aims of Meditation
You may have tried meditation before but not succeeded. You may have difficulty overcoming the overactive mind. You may have worked with meditation for awhile, but it is becoming routine or stale and…