Still the Mind
An Introduction to Meditation
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- By: Adyashanti
- Narrated by: Adyashanti
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Original Recording
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“Question your assumptions; lean far into the unknown. Question it all.” So says Adyashanti in The Most Important Thing, Volume 1 - an invitation to look past the surface of our personal stories to discover the timeless truths within. Across eight hours of intimate talks, Adyashanti encourages you to open to the possibility of grace, embrace those aspects of life that call you to serve, and discover the innate vitality in every single moment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspires direction and clarity for deep progress
- By Anonymous User on 02-08-19
By: Adyashanti
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Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path
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- Narrated by: Kulananda
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The Eightfold Path is the most widely known formulation of the Buddha's teaching. It is ancient, reaching back to the Buddha's very first discourse, and it is highly venerated as a unique treasury of wisdom and practical guidance. The teaching of the Eightfold Path challenges us to grasp the implications of that vision, and asks us to transform ourselves in its light. Like the teaching itself, this work covers every aspect of life.
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Excellent
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The Path of Love
- Understanding That Nothing Is Perfect in Life
- By: Osho
- Narrated by: Osho
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Original Recording
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Here, Osho introduces listeners to this extraordinary mystic and his songs, bringing both to light in such a way as to show how they are both timeless and utterly relevant to our time. The path of love, as described by Osho and though the songs of Kabir, is a journey that seeks out and celebrates the divine that is hidden in the ordinary, the love that becomes not just a feeling one has but ultimately a state of being that one is.
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2 out of 5 stars
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there are so many pauses to the audio
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By: Osho
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The Heart Sutra
- Becoming a Buddha Through Meditation
- By: Osho
- Narrated by: Osho
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
- Original Recording
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The Heart Sutra, originally a very short set of verses, was given in privacy as a message to one of Buddha's close disciples, Sariputra, specifically addressed to him. Over time the Heart Sutra became one of Buddhism's core teachings. In these 10 talks, Osho presents the powerful message of these ancient words and brings them to a modern audience - one with different minds and needs than the original audiences of Buddha more than 2,500 years ago.
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1 out of 5 stars
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intolerable
- By Amazon Customer on 11-28-17
By: Osho
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Urban Shaman
- A Handbook for Personal and Planetary Transformation Based on the Hawaiian Way of the Adventurer
- By: Serge Kahili King
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The first practical guide to applying the ancient healing art of Hawaiian shamanism to our modern lives. Uniquely suited for use in today's world, Hawaiian shamanism follows the way of the adventurer, which produces change through love and cooperation - in contrast to the widely known way of the warrior, which emphasizes solitary quests and conquest by power. Now, even if you can't get out into the wilderness or undertake a long apprenticeship with a shaman, you can learn to practice the art of shamanism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of his better books
- By l.schlough on 01-24-24
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Soul Shifts
- Transformative Wisdom for Creating a Life of Authentic Awakening, Emotional Freedom & Practical Spirituality
- By: Dr. Barbara De Angelis
- Narrated by: Dr. Barbara Deangelis
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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There are pivotal moments in the lives of all seekers when we realize that we've been traveling on our path of growth toward happiness and fulfillment, but, simply put, we want to go faster. How we have been living, working, and loving just isn't enough or even acceptable anymore. We know we're being called to something more significant and expanded - we can feel it. At these times what's needed is not simply more change or an adjustment in our outer life but profound transformation.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Inspirational chatter from a boastful person
- By Mary Murrey on 06-17-15
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Asian Journals
- India and Japan (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
- By: Joseph Campbell
- Narrated by: Fred Stella
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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At the beginning of his career, Joseph Campbell developed a lasting fascination with the cultures of the Far East, and explorations of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy later became recurring motifs in his vast body of work. However, Campbell had to wait until middle age to visit the lands that inspired him so deeply. In 1954, he took a sabbatical from his teaching position and embarked on a year-long voyage through India, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and finally Japan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a journey!
- By Anonymous User on 08-11-18
By: Joseph Campbell
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Falling into Grace
- Insights on the End of Suffering
- By: Adyashanti
- Narrated by: Adyashanti
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Adyashanti asks us to let go of our struggles with life and open to the full promise of spiritual awakening: the end of delusion and the discovery and expression of our essential being. After 15 years as a spiritual teacher, Adyashanti has found that the simpler the teaching, the greater its power to initiate this awakening. On Falling into Grace, he shares what he considers fundamental insights to "open ourselves to that mysterious element that enters in the hidden and quiet moments and sparks a revolution in the way that we perceive life."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Soul Food
- By S. Atkins on 05-26-16
By: Adyashanti
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The Intuitive Way
- The Definitive Guide to Increasing Your Awareness
- By: Penney Peirce
- Narrated by: Randye Kaye
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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When intuition is in full bloom, life takes on a magical, effortless quality; your world is suddenly full of synchronicities, creative insights, and abundant knowledge. Through an easy-to-understand 10-step course, The Intuitive Way shows you how to enter that state of perceptual aliveness and integrate it into daily life to achieve greater natural flow. Author Penney Peirce synthesizes teachings from psychology, Eastern and Western philosophy, religion, metaphysics, and business.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic book that I would recommend A+
- By Secret Motion on 05-10-16
By: Penney Peirce
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Silent Power
- By: Stuart Wilde
- Narrated by: Stuart Wilde
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Silent Power, like its bestselling predecessor Life Was Never Meant to be a Struggle, is a tiny book filled with practical advice on living more fully using your "silent power." Author Stuart Wilde claims that there is a silent power within you, an inner knowing that grows because you understand its infinity. Silent power teaches you hour by hour; it is with you this very minute! As you begin to trust your power, it can lead you step by step to the next person and place in your life.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Beware: This is NOT a recording of the book.
- By Maria on 02-12-11
By: Stuart Wilde
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Fear Less
- Living Beyond Fear, Anxiety, Anger, and Addiction
- By: Dean Sluyter
- Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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These days there's so much fear in the air, you can almost taste it - along with all the varieties of anxiety, anger, and addiction that grow out of it. How can you navigate your way through the fear and confusion, and find your way to peace? In Fear Less, acclaimed teacher and award-winning author Dean Sluyter shows how to use simple meditative techniques and subtle tweaks of body, mind, and breath to open your life to deep, relaxed confidence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Omfg this is so good!
- By Sergio on 05-10-18
By: Dean Sluyter
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At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that we are isolated beings, unconnected to the rest of the universe, has led us to view the “outside” world with hostility, and has fueled our misuse of technology and our violent and hostile subjugation of the natural world. To help us understand that the self is in fact the root and ground of the universe, Alan Watts provides us with a much-needed answer to the problem of personal identity, distilling and adapting the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta.
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Impossible to understand de pronunciation
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Western thought and culture have coalesced around a series of constructed ideas—that human beings stand separate from a nature that must be controlled; that the mind is somehow superior to the body; that all sexuality entails a seduction—that in some way underlie our exploitation of the earth, our distrust of emotion, and our loneliness and reluctance to love.
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Alan Watts discusses the Indian philosophy of the world as maya - under its multiple meanings as illusion, art, magic, creative power, measure, etc. Various techniques in the arts are used to illustrate the delicate and vibrational character of the material world, and to suggest a new approach to the old philosophy that the universe is "mind" only.
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Amazing
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Space is considered to be nothingness by many. But after all it is the background in which we see everything. It is against space and within the dimension of time that we experience everything we experience. Space and time are the two basic dimensions of our world but are uncommonly illusive. We can say they are our way of thinking of the universe as being a system of patterns. And our awe at the vastness of space may be man's astonishment at himself.
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A timeless message
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Alan Watts discusses the word tathata, which is translated from the Sanskrit as "suchness" or "thusness." The term is used in Mahayana Buddhism to suggest how things look to a Buddha, to one who has experienced enlightenment or liberation and is, therefore, called a Tathagata - one who comes (and goes) thus. Watts shares the sense of this nonsense in Buddhist philosophy, and its practical demonstration in Zen.
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An amazing, mind opening listen.
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Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown
- A Mountain Journal
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Assembled in the form of a “mountain journal,” written during a retreat in the foothills of Mount Tamalpais, CA, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown is Watts’s meditation on the art of feeling out and following the watercourse way of nature, known in Chinese as the Tao. Embracing a form of contemplative meditation that allows us to stop analyzing our experiences and start living in to them, the book explores themes such as the natural world, established religion, race relations, karma and reincarnation, astrology and tantric yoga, the nature of ecstasy, and much more.
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Some of Alan Watts greatest essays
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Classic Alan Watts.
I am an avid Alan Watts reader and listener. Most of this I had never heard. I will listen again.
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- Parker Jennings
- 09-06-21
One of the finest Alan Watts performances
This book really hits deep. Some key takeaways are:
-Intellectual Theologians side with God because he's the big boss in the sky, with the biggest battalions. What the hell are we supposed to do about that?
-Life is now. Right now. We are straining ourselves with a nervous, overwrought sense of self that is a misunderstanding of how we are supposed to actually be.
-the self is an illusion, thoughts that can only think about thinking are lost
-the quivering self is what we are deep down inside, and meditation brings understanding to assuage that self.
-our sense of identity doesn't take into account our hippocampus, or pineal gland, or our physical body at all
there's more gold in hear, great to hear.
another good one was that when we meditate we can observe thoughts just as if they were on the outside of ourselves. we are the watcher
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- Leonard peart
- 09-02-18
great read
very entertaining and very moving Alan Watts delivered as usual and keep its the facts and Truth and also spiritual and open your eyes two different perspective.
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- David Getzschman
- 01-29-17
Alan Watts is a loveable, accessible genius
Would you listen to Still the Mind again? Why?
The value of this audio title rests in the fact that Watts himself is recorded. Charming, revealing and empathetic, Watts is a brilliant speaker and his approach to understanding meditation is singular.
What other book might you compare Still the Mind to and why?
Titles by Ram Dass
Which scene was your favorite?
Watts makes the wisdom of the Vedas accessible to a modern, Western audience.
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- Emanuel
- 10-24-16
Insightful.
Nothing can quite beat the subtle reminder that we are capable of relieving our minds when we let go. Much like muddy waters, most of our thoughts are clouded until we allow it to settle.
Alan W. Watts provides a unique way of explaining this kind of process. With a captivating voice and wise choosing of vocabulary he can show you much of what you've been missing this whole time.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-14-17
Another Gem by Alan Watts
An excellent introduction to meditation!
Funny, calming and only an hour long. A lot of wisdom
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- Albert
- 01-18-18
Awake
Through riddles and self realization Alan Watts gets rid of your desire to worry. This new age way of showing the zen mindset through different sounds and new koan.
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- Faith Parent
- 07-02-20
Enchanting
I can’t get enough of Alan Watts his voice is smooth gentle yet masculine. Alan Watts is the most real I’ve ever read or listen too
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- JJTC Stinson
- 01-09-23
Must Have Audio Collection from Alan Watts
Having many many hours audio tracks of Alan Watts, this one is rare and one of my favorites!
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- PLM
- 10-21-15
There's No Bad A. Watts
There are no bad Alan Watts recordings. some are just better than others. 20 words
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