Meditation and Beyond
de Elliott S. Dacher, M.D.
When the "I" Falls Silent
Sobre este podcast
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
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- When the "I" Falls Silent · 18 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 45Send us Fan Mail What happens when the familiar sense of “I” grows quiet—even for a moment? What remains is not emptiness, but a spacious, living awareness that has always been…
- Real But Not True · 18 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 44Send us Fan Mail What if everything you experience – thoughts, emotions, sensations, even the world itself –arises nowhere other than within the mind? This is not a philosophical…
- Unraveling the Monkey Mind · 19 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 43Send us Fan Mail We weren’t born with a restless mind. We arrived in this world spacious, open, and untouched – like awareness itself. So how did that vast clarity become a…
- The Habit That Made the Monkey Mind · 18 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 42Send us Fan Mail Have you ever wondered why your mind refuses to sit still—why thoughts surge, swirl, and rehearse themselves as if on an endless loop? The answer isn’t…
- Discovering the Nature of Mind · 20 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 42Send us Fan Mail Behind the restless flow of thoughts lies a vast, silent field of awareness – the natural mind that precedes and sustains all experience. We live mostly within a…
- Bottom-Up – Top-Down · 18 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 42Send us Fan Mail A question that all meditators confront is how to stabilize the qualities we experience in our natural state – serenity, spontaneous realizations, freedom from…
- Freedom from the Known · 21 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 41Send us Fan Mail We are born with a simple, clear, and open awareness. Yet, this pristine consciousness is short lived. As we navigate life, our experiences – linked to external…
- Where Stillness Waits: Beyond Circumstantial Calm · 19 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 42Send us Fan Mail We have all experienced moments of circumstantial calmness – whether through a relaxing walk in nature, immersion in art and beauty, or through music, yoga…
- The Peak Experience · 21 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 40Send us Fan Mail A peak experience is a fleeting moment of profound inner peace, harmony, flow, and oneness. It’s T.S. Eliot’s image of children playing innocently in the apple…
- The Vanishing ‘I’: Finding Freedom in "Otherness" · 24 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 35Send us Fan Mail Shantideva, a famous 8th-century Indian Buddhist monk, shared with us a very wise realization: "All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for…
- Liberation on Arising: The Secret of Mental Stillness · 18 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 40Send us Fan Mail "Self-liberation on arising" describes the natural dissolution of thoughts, feelings, and sensations when the mind refrains from grasping, elaborating, or…
- This Precious Life · 20 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 40Send us Fan Mail "This Precious Life" explores the human journey from the expansive, limitless consciousness of childhood, to the constricted identity shaped by societal demands…
- The Gap: Glimpses of Essence · 19 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 39Send us Fan Mail This podcast explores the distinction between two aspects of self: the essential self, characterized by unconditioned awareness present from birth, and the…
- Virtual Reality to True Being · 21 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 38Send us Fan Mail Simply stated, virtual reality is an experience that on first glance appears real but on further examination is found not to be real. The experience seems real…
- Zooming In – Zooming Out · 20 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 39Send us Fan Mail "Zooming In – Zooming Out" explores the practice of reconnecting with our fundamental, unconditioned awareness, which we are born with but often lose touch with…
- Personal Love – Essence Love · 18 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 25Send us Fan Mail We can begin by agreeing that there are two fundamental kinds of love – personal love and essence love. Although the first, personal love, may take many forms…
- Seen But Not Real – Not Seen But Real · 17 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 37Send us Fan Mail A desert mirage, an echo, train tracks appearing to meet in the distance, and magic tricks are among those experiences that we can see or hear, but they are not…
- Reclaiming Your Center: Small Self to True Self · 20 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 24Send us Fan Mail Our lives are influenced and guided by our sense of “self.” When we refer to our self – I believe, I think, I feel – it is important to ask what self, what “I,”…
- The Decisive Experience · 19 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 33Send us Fan Mail We have all had moments when the tumult of life stops and clear and truthful insights arise from the depth of our being. We call them “aha” experiences. These…
- Come to Me as a Child · 19 min · Temporada 1 Episodio 36Send us Fan Mail A child is born with a clear, pure awareness. Not an awareness of this or that or an awareness accompanied by interpretations, commentary, judgments, or…
