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SitTao Te Ching – Chapter 43, Meditation and DiscussionChapter 43 of an anonymous translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
I'm back! And coming back is not so easy. In today's talk I begin with an update on my whereabouts and on how I'm doing.
Coming back to any practice or commitment after leaving it can give rise to shame. Shame is such a difficult state to endure that a standard response to it is avoidance - avoidance of the thing that causes the feeling of shame to arise, which in this case is the positive act of returning. Because avoidance worsens the original...2018-06-1300 minSitTao Te Ching – Chapter 42, Meditation and DiscussionChapter 42 of the Dwight Goddard translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
In today's talk I begin by discussing work, money, their effects on us and on nature, and the conditioned responses that were planted in each of us as children that we didn't get to choose.
Meditation gives us the opportunity to notice those conditioned responses. It creates the possibility for choice, even if only briefly. As you strengthen this through a regular sitting practice, you gain more chances to make choices that resonate with your innermost truth, as opposed to acting out rote...2017-05-1600 minSitTao Te Ching – Chapter 41, Meditation and DiscussionChapter 41 of the Ch'u Ta-Kao translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
Chapter 41 is a beautiful passage and one of the ones that originally attracted me to the Tao Te Ching, primarily because it puzzled me. When I was young it seemed both to not make sense and simultaneously to speak to something deep within me. In the course of exploring the chapter, I ask the question, If all paths are part of the Tao, then why make an effort to follow the Tao?
We finish with a short gratitude practice.
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When the superiour scholar is...2017-05-0900 minSitTao Te Ching – Chapter 40, Meditation and DiscussionChapter 40 of the Dwight Goddard translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
Today I discuss the difficulty of meditating, the trap of meditating for personal gain or self-improvement, and connect the message of Chapter 40 with the existence and non-existence of our own conscious experience.
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40. AVOIDING ACTIVITY
Retirement is characteristic of Tao just as weakness appears to be a characteristic of its activity.
Heaven and earth and everything are produced from existence, but existence comes from nonexistence. . .
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Ending credits: chobones, thunderstorm, freesound.org2017-05-0300 minSitMeditation and Discussion Tao Te Ching – Chapter 39Chapter 39 of an anonymous translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: kangaroovindaloo, Fryers Forest - Powerful Owl (Ninox Stenua), freesound.org2017-04-2500 minSitTao Te Ching Chapter 38 - Meditation and Discussion Tao Te Ching – Chapter 38Chapter 38 of an anonymous translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: sclolex, Field recording of a Great Horned Owl on the night of the Harvest Moon, freesound.org2017-04-2200 minSitTao Te Ching Chapter 37 - Meditation and Discussion Tao Te Ching – Chapter 37Chapter 37 of the Ch'u Ta-Kao translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: soundskeep, Recording of a choir of Scops Owls in Rovinj, Croatia 2016, freesound.org2017-04-2000 minSitTao Te Ching – Chapter 36Chapter 36 of the Dwight Goddard translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: carlito62, Blackbird in Forest (southern Sweden), freesound.org2017-04-1800 minSitSit #35 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 35Chapter 35 of the Dwight Goddard translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: vanoosbree, Sea lions at Pier 39 (San Francisco), freesound.org2017-03-2400 minSitSit #34 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 34Chapter 34 of the Walter Gorn-Old translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: yoyodaman234, The sound of wind blowing through trees with birds chirping in the background, freesound.org2017-03-2200 minSitSit #33 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 33Chapter 33 of the Dwight Goddard translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: Felix Blume
Around 100 people hum at the beginning of a ritual Santo Daime & Umbanda at the Fraternidade Kayman in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
freesound.org2017-03-2200 minSitSit #32 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 32Chapter 32 of the Dwight Goddard translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
In this episode I mention a video of J Krishnamurti discussing meditation (https://youtu.be/xOLYN64dfKs).
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Ending credits: Felix Blume, Monkeys are howling in the trees at the edge of the river. Recorded from the canoe. Gran Sabana, Venezuela, freesound.org2017-03-0900 minSitSit #31 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 31Chapter 31 of the Ch'u Ta-Kao translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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SitSit #30 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 30Chapter 30 of an anonymous translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: jhumbucker, Ocean waves close up, freesound.org2017-03-0300 minSitSit #29 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 29Chapter 29 of an anonymous translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: Downrigger, Thousands of frogs singing in anticipation of rain, Glasshouse Mountains, Queensland, Australia, freesound.org2017-03-0200 minSitSit #28 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 28Chapter 28 of the Dwight Goddard translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Felix Blume, USA, Arizona - A windmill is squeaking alone in the desert, freesound.org2017-03-0100 minSitSit #27 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 27Chapter 27 of the Dwight Goddard translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits:
Felix Blume
An oil pump is squeaking in an industrial oil field in California
(Pump jack creaking and squeaking, metallic sounds around.
Close recording done in Taft, California (USA).
Recorded October 2013)
freesound.org2017-02-2800 minSitSit #26 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 26Chapter 26 of an anonymous translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: soundsofeurope,
Harbour of Höfn-Iceland
June 2007, about Midnight
Steps on Gravel, Seabirds, Water, Pipeline and Pumping Station, Fish-Oil Producing Ship, Workers and Seamen
Artist: Mark Lorenz Kysela
freesound.org2017-02-2700 minSitSit #25 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 25Chapter 25 of Walter Gorn-Old's 1904 translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: bansemer, One mockingbird with many songs, freesound.org2017-02-1700 minSitSit #24 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 24Chapter 24 of the Ch'u Ta-Kao translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: Felix Blume, The screaming piha (pajaro minero) is singing and whistling in the tropical forest of Gran Sabana Venezuela, freesound.org2017-02-1600 minSitSit #23 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 23Chapter 23 of the Dwight Goddard translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: klangfabrik, Thunder and rain, freesound.org2017-02-1500 minSitSit #22 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 22Chapter 22 of the Frederic Henry Balfour translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: stomachache, Apollonia organ (Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, Arizona), freesound.org2017-02-1400 minSitSit #21 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 21Chapter 21 of the Frederic Henry Balfour translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: Kevoy, Diving with whales (recorded in French Polynesia), freesound.org2017-02-1300 minSitSit #20 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 20Chapter 20 of the Tao Te Ching, comparing the Dwight Goddard, James Legge, and D.T. Suzuki translations. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: 3bagbrew, Temple exterior (Gakwonsa Temple, a Buddhist temple in Cheonan, South Korea), freesound.org2017-02-1000 minSitSit #19 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 19Chapter 19 of the Dwight Goddard translation of the Tao Te Ching, along with Charles' version of the chapter. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: barkenov, Hardrain (Heavy rain falling in my backyard), freesound.org2017-02-0900 minSitSit #18 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 18Chapter 18 of the Dwight Goddard translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: qubodup, Remaster/remix of Cows Moo at 10m in an Estancia of Tierra del Fuego (Argentina) by Felix Blume, freesound.org2017-02-0800 minSitSit #17 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 17Chapter 17 of the Dwight Goddard translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: nandre59, The ocean in beach of MECO, freesound.org2017-02-0700 minSitSit #16 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 16Chapter 16 of the Dwight Goddard translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: Pierre Grandjean, grues1 (Cranes leaving France to spend winter in southern countries), freesound.org2017-02-0600 minSitSit #15 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 15Chapter 15 of the Raymond Blakney translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: Felix Blume, A coyote is howling at night in the Gran Sabana, freesound.org2017-02-0300 minSitSit #14 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 14Chapter 14 of Raymond Blakney's translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: Felix Blume, Wind Is Blowing in the Barbed Wire Fence, Tierra del Fuego Argentina, freesound.org2017-02-0200 minSitSit #13 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 13Chapter 13 of Raymond Blakney's translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: lepolainyann, Tibetan Buddhist Chant, freesound.org2017-02-0100 minSitSit #12 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 12Chapter 12 of Raymond Blakney's translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: frankie01234, A Murder of Crows, freesound.org2017-01-3100 minSitSit #11 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 11Chapter 11 of the Raymond Blakney translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: Felix Blume, Insects Buzzing Nearby and Birds Sing, Gran Sabana Venezuela, freesound.org2017-01-3000 minSitSit #10 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 10Chapter 10 of the Chung Yuan Chang translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: Felix Blume, Seagulls Screaming in Istanbul Turkey, freesound.org2017-01-2700 minSitSit #9 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 9Chapter 9 of the Raymond Blakney translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: Felix Blume, Chacalas Birds Screaming at Dawn in the Forest in the Sian-ka-an Biosphere Reserve, freesound.org2017-01-2600 minSitSit #8 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 8Chapter 8 of the Chung Yuan Chang translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: itsmrjack, Howler Monkey Jungle 4, freesound.org2017-01-2500 minSitSit #7 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 7Chapter 7 of the Chung Yuan Chang translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: zozzy, Swissbalcony.2, freesound.org2017-01-2400 minSitSit #6 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 6Chapter 6 of the Chung Yuan Chang translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: zozzy, Swissbalcony.2, freesound.org2017-01-2300 minSitSit #5 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 5Chapter 5 of Stephen Mitchell's translation of the Tao Te Ching. 10 minute guided meditation followed by discussion.
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Ending credits: zozzy, Swissbalcony.2, freesound.org2017-01-2000 minSitSit #4 Tao Te Ching – Chapter 4Chapter 4 of Stephen Mitchell's translation of the Tao Te Ching; 10 minute guided meditation; followed by a discussion.
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Chapter 1 of Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell's translation, followed by 10 minute guided meditation and discussion of the passage.
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