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Integration talks, settle practices, and education pieces for seekers preparing for or returning from spiritual and wellness work. Listen at your own pace.
Practice
The Beginning of the Ending of Thoughts
16 min · Practice
Alan Watts on settling the restless mind — a gentle entry into meditation as the natural quieting of thought, not a struggle against it.
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Education
Om — The Sound of Hinduism
13 min · Education
Alan Watts introduces Om and the living sound of Hindu devotion — a doorway into mantra, presence, and the felt sense of the sacred.
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Talk
Meditation — Krishnamurti at Claremont
65 min · Talk
J. Krishnamurti on meditation as a deep understanding of life — not escape, but a meeting of joy, sorrow, and action without the screen of concepts.
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Practice
Vipassana Body Scan
45 min · Practice
A guided vipassana body-sweep with Leigh Brasington — slow attention through sensation, building calm and clear awareness in the body.
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Practice
Guided Meditation with Ajahn Brahm
25 min · Practice
A warm guided sit from the Buddhist Society of Western Australia — settling the body and mind with kindness, led by Ajahn Brahm.
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The Silence of Sounds
13 min · Practice
Alan Watts on listening past noise into the silence that holds every sound — a short practice talk on hearing the world without grasping.
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Why Not Now
13 min · Talk
Watts on the urgency of presence — why the meditative life is not postponed to a better self or better day, but available in this moment.
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Tambouras for Meditation
11 min · Ceremony
A sustained tamboura drone offered as a ceremonial backdrop for sit or mantra — ambient sacred sound from Watts's Om sessions.
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Talk
Lecture on Trust
15 min · Talk
Alan Watts on trust — letting go of the need to control outcomes and meeting life with a more open, confident heart.
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Authority Is a Joke
25 min · Talk
Watts's sharp, playful dismantling of spiritual and institutional authority — an invitation to think and feel for yourself.
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Education
Alan Watts on Meditation
58 min · Education
A longer Watts session on what meditation is and is not — dropping the struggle to improve and discovering the mind's natural ease.
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Sahaja — Spontaneous Ease
30 min · Talk
Alan Watts on sahaja — spontaneous, unforced spiritual ease — and how forced striving can obscure the very freedom we seek.
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Mysticism and Morals
52 min · Education
Watts explores how mystical insight relates to ethics — revelation, compassion, and living wisely without rigid commandments.
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Integration
Finding a Place of Peace to Retreat
49 min · Integration
Ajahn Brahm on finding an inner place of peace — practical dharma for coming home to calm after intensity, travel, or busy life.
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Education
Word of the Buddha — Part 1
94 min · Education
Ajahn Brahm introduces the Word of the Buddha — foundational teachings offered with warmth, clarity, and humour for modern practitioners.
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Practice
Full Awareness of Breathing
50 min · Practice
Gary Gach presents Full Awareness of Breathing in the Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh — mindfulness as a lived, gentle practice.
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Talk
Does Zazen Work?
38 min · Talk
A straightforward Zen talk on whether sitting practice 'works' — expectations, sincerity, and showing up to the cushion again and again.
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Dharma Talk — Shosan Vicki Austin
61 min · Talk
A Hartford Street Zen Center dharma talk by Shosan Vicki Austin — grounded Zen teaching for everyday practice and community life.
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Integration
Urban Meditation Skills
88 min · Integration
Ven. Fedor Stracke on how to be a happy meditator in city life — bringing practice off the cushion into ordinary streets and schedules.
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Education
Sadhana — The Realisation of Life (Ch. 1)
35 min · Education
Rabindranath Tagore's Sadhana, chapter one — a luminous reflection on the relation of the individual to the universe and spiritual realisation.
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Education
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali — Book I
41 min · Education
A Librivox reading of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras (1917 edition), Book I — classical yoga on mind, concentration, and liberation.
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Education
The Path of Light — Opening
17 min · Education
From Shantideva's Bodhicharyavatara (The Path of Light) — entering the path of the bodhisattva with aspiration and care for all beings.
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Education
Bhagavad Gita — Chapter 1
12 min · Education
The opening chapter of the Bhagavad Gita — Arjuna's crisis on the field of dharma, setting the stage for Krishna's teaching on action and wisdom.
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Integration
Ram Dass on Relationships
42 min · Integration
A vintage Ram Dass talk on relationships as spiritual practice — meeting others with loving awareness rather than grasping or fear.
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Talk
Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond
52 min · Talk
A Buddhist monk shares wit and wisdom on mindfulness and deeper states — accessible dharma on calm, insight, and the joy of practice.
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