Learn To Meditate - Meditation Podcast

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This beginners meditation course features a variety of meditation techniques including mantra, meditating with the breath and music, concentration and meditation on a object. Each class includes a discussion topic and a guided meditation exercise. The Meditation Society of Australia (http://meditation.org.au) has no religious, political or financial affiliations, it is a community organisation designed to help people meditate. (Author: Meditation Society of Australia)
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Recent episodes from Learn To Meditate - Meditation Podcast

  • Class 31 - Getting Stuck
    Published: Sep 3, 08
    Topics Include: - how to get out of a spiritual funk - learn if you are on the right path, working at the right job or if you have found your soul-mate.- widen your meditation experience with group meditation The spiritual seekers worst nightmareIn the spiritual community, a common theme is of getting stuck. We wonder if we are on the right path, whether we are working at the right job, if we are doing what our heart is telling us to do, whether our friends really understand us, whether we shoul
     
  • Class 30 - Free Your Mind
    Published: Jul 11, 08
    Topics Include: - appreciate the power of the mind - create an ego that will serve you not you serve it.One of the finest instruments given to us at the start of our life here on earth is our wonderful and complex mind.From the point of view of our meditation life the mind can be a blessing, but, if not properly trained, a profound hindrance.Its main feature is its malleability. This is also its problem. It can be made to believe anything. Indeed, it can even believe that it is in charge. It is
     
  • Class 29 - Charity & Oneness
    Published: Jun 13, 08
    Topics Include: Understand the relationship between charity and oneness.Roger walked into what was sometimes known as 'The Lost City' and was immediately struck by the level of suffering. This was not one or two homeless and hungry, this was tens of thousands of lost, lonely and painful souls. There were those bankrupt, those ostracised for their colour, religion, their weight or lack of weight, their ugly faces or scars or criminal record, their sexuality, their violence, their mental illness,
     
  • Class 28 - Living Your Bliss
    Published: Jun 11, 08
    Topics Include: Understand how blissful life actually is.For many to live in bliss is a fantasy.To be happy is not seen as a permanent state but as a kind of fleeting moment, a gift that fate might offer from time to time. Some people even think of too much happiness as being slightly delusional or uncaring for those that are suffering. It is simply unimaginable that a person could live free from suffering, free from the occasional nightmare, free from anxiety or pain, free from any or all negat
     
  • Class 27 - Learning From The Negatives
    Published: Jun 7, 08
    Topics Include: For the last few classes we have been talking about ‘so-called’ negative qualities. To summarise all negatives are really just the bludgeon of change. Every negative quality is actually just a wall we hit as the last stop before we learn and grow. It was the Dalai Lama that said that there isn’t a big problem that did not start as a small one.This is true of all pain. Believe it or not, there is not a thing that happens in the world for no reason. Just as if a child was abo
     
  • Class 26 - Depression
    Published: Jun 5, 08
    Topics Include: Many times people with depression will feel helpless to change their current state, as though there is no point or that no-one can help. Depression often follows anger and helplessness. We quite often are literally beating ourselves up. Many times people that suffer from depression are extremely intelligent, very sensitive and compassionate people. Their sense of helplessness parallels the same spiral people suffering from anger travel into resentment and stress related illnesses
     
  • Class 25 - Listening
    Published: Jun 4, 08
    Topics Include: There is a great deal of benefit to be derived from simply listening in almost every dimension of life but in particular in the spiritual life. To listen is a requirement for any spiritual evolution. It is the foundation of change. Without listening we cannot transform ourselves.
     
  • Class 20 - The First Twenty, Now Where?
    Published: Feb 22, 08
    Topics Include: The 20th class is a great achievement - well done! We'd really like to thank you for letting us into your spiritual life and we hope that you have enjoyed the classes so far. This class is all about assimilation. How you can live your spiritual life most effectively.
     
  • Class 19 - Enthusiasm And Inspiration
    Published: Feb 22, 08
    Topics Include: Our daily meditation can sometimes become stale. We find ourselves having trouble getting new inspiration or enthusiasm. We sit to meditate and without inspiration our meditation might become a bit of a day dream, or we could find ourselves nodding off to sleep.We need to continuously look for ways for our meditation to evolve, ways to increase our enthusiasm and inspiration.
     
  • Class 20 - The First Twenty, Now Where?
    Published: Feb 22, 08
    Topics Include: The 20th class is a great achievement - well done! We'd really like to thank you for letting us into your spiritual life and we hope that you have enjoyed the classes so far. This class is all about assimilation. How you can live your spiritual life most effectively.
     
  • Class 19 - Enthusiasm And Inspiration
    Published: Feb 22, 08
    Topics Include: Our daily meditation can sometimes become stale. We find ourselves having trouble getting new inspiration or enthusiasm. We sit to meditate and without inspiration our meditation might become a bit of a day dream, or we could find ourselves nodding off to sleep.We need to continuously look for ways for our meditation to evolve, ways to increase our enthusiasm and inspiration.
     
  • Class 24 - Birthdays
    Published: Feb 21, 08
    Topics Include: The birthday is an extremely important day to the spiritual aspirant. Whether we realize it or not we do arrive at a particular time and place for a specific reason. There is nothing random about you being born on the date and time you were born.For this reason we should treat our birthdays with real reverence.
     
  • Class 19 - Enthusiasm And Inspiration
    Published: Feb 21, 08
    Topics Include: Our daily meditation can sometimes become stale. We find ourselves having trouble getting new inspiration or enthusiasm. We sit to meditate and without inspiration our meditation might become a bit of a day dream, or we could find ourselves nodding off to sleep.We need to continuously look for ways for our meditation to evolve, ways to increase our enthusiasm and inspiration.
     
  • Class 20 - The First Twenty, Now Where?
    Published: Feb 21, 08
    Topics Include: The 20th class is a great achievement - well done! We'd really like to thank you for letting us into your spiritual life and we hope that you have enjoyed the classes so far. This class is all about assimilation. How you can live your spiritual life most effectively.
     
  • Class 19 - Enthusiasm And Inspiration
    Published: Feb 20, 08
    Topics Include: Our daily meditation can sometimes become stale. We find ourselves having trouble getting new inspiration or enthusiasm. We sit to meditate and without inspiration our meditation might become a bit of a day dream, or we could find ourselves nodding off to sleep.We need to continuously look for ways for our meditation to evolve, ways to increase our enthusiasm and inspiration.