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Wisdom of the Masters

Samaneri Jayasara

These podcasts are designed to provide listeners with teachings from great spiritual Masters and to create a meditative mood so that the meaning can go deep and enter your heart. If you enjo...

Episodes

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Meister Eckhart ~ Isness is God ~ Christian Mystics

Meister Eckhart — from a 'Sermon on the Ground of the Godhead'. Modern English rendering by Matthew Fox.Johannes Eckhart was one of the grea...

00:12:06Nov 6, 2026

St Joseph the Hesychast ~ Prayer of the Heart

St Joseph the Hesychast (1897–1959) was a Greek Orthodox monk and spiritual elder of Mount Athos, renowned for his life of profound prayer,...

00:39:41Oct 30, 2026

Master Hongzhi Zhengjue ~ The Original Light ~ Zen Buddhism

A meditation on the 'Original Light' - verses extracted from the 'Hung-chih Sermons'. From the text, 'The Five Houses of Zen, Translated by...

00:31:17Oct 22, 2026

Ganga Maa ~ The Truth is in the Heart ~ Advaita

Ganga Maa is a contemporary Advaita teacher based in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, where she gives regular satsang at Hridaya Kshetram. Her te...

00:28:26Oct 13, 2026

Longchenpa ~ The Enlightened Mind ~ Dzogchen

These pointers from the Master, Longchen Rabjam, have been compiled for meditation/contemplation and point to the natural state of the mind...

00:15:03Oct 7, 2026

Simone Weil ~ Decreating Ourselves ~ (from Gravity and Grace)

Selected passages read from the text Gravity and Grace - specifically from the chapters on 'The Self' and 'Decreation'.Simone Weil (1909–194...

00:30:16Sep 28, 2026

Hazrat Inayat Khan ~ Music of the Absolute ~ Sufi Mystics

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882 –1927) was an Indian professor of musicology, singer, exponent of the saraswati vina, poet, philosopher, and pionee...

00:11:19Sep 22, 2026

Resting the Mind ~ Samaneri Jayasara

This meditation guides you to rest and relax the mind and body, not through force or coercion, but simply by recognising the ever present st...

00:25:00Sep 15, 2026

The Fire Sermon ~ Teachings of the Buddha

Ādittapariyāya Sutta, popularly known as "The Fire Sermon", is the third major discourse delivered by the Buddha. Spoken on top of the Gayas...

00:14:15Sep 4, 2026

The Mandukya Upanishad ~ Advaita Vedanta

The Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣhad is one of the later and shortest of the principal Upaniṣads, consisting of just twelve remarkably dense verses. It be...

00:17:00Aug 29, 2026

Max Picard ~ A Meditation on Silence

Max Picard (1888–1965) was a Swiss-German philosopher, physician, and mystic whose profound vision and work speaks with extraordinary force...

00:22:04Aug 21, 2026

Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi) ~ The Return ~ Taoism

Selected teachings from Chuang Tzu excerpted from 'The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu' - translated by Burton Watson. Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi) c....

00:18:03Aug 11, 2026

The Path of Immediate Liberation ~ Dzogchen Meditation

This is a guided Dzogchen meditation pointing to recognising the natural state of the enlightened mind, free from conceptual proliferation,...

00:31:33Jun 24, 2026

Sayings of the Desert Mothers ~ Christian Mystics

This is a reading for meditation of selected teachings/sayings of the Desert Mothers, taken from 'Apophthegmata Patrum' (Sayings of the Dese...

00:14:09Jun 16, 2026

Ajahn Chah ~ A Guided Meditation ~ Thai Forest Tradition

This is a guided meditation formatted from instructions provided in the text, "On Meditation Instructions from talks by Ajahn Chah."The text...

00:34:19Jun 5, 2026

Nisargadatta ~ Be Like Space ~ The Final Talks

This is a selection of teachings of Nisargadatta's taken from the text 'Consciousness and the Absolute: The Final Talks - Jean Dunn (editor)...

00:26:03May 28, 2026

Working Skillfully with Pain ~ A Guided Meditation ~ Samaneri Jayasara

This guided meditation offers a gentle and compassionate way of working with pain in practice. Beginning with grounding awareness in the bod...

00:28:15May 21, 2026

Yeshe Tsogyal ~ The Dakini Queen

This is a reading for meditation of three poems written by Yeshe Tsogyal on the nature of the Dharmakaya and her complete realisation. Trans...

00:07:58May 15, 2026

Ibn Arabi ~ The Prayer of Protection ~ Hizb Al-Wiqayah

Ibn Arabi’s Hizb Al-Wiqayah (The Prayer of Protection), also known as al-Dawr al-A‘la, is a powerful 33-verse Sufi invocation for spiritual...

00:34:09May 10, 2026

How to Practice Self Inquiry ~ (based on Ramana Maharshi teachings)

This meditation guides you through a process of calming the mind in order to begin the process of self inquiry based on the teachings of Ram...

00:28:28Apr 28, 2026