A Way Out of Addictions

© 2008 Kashi Ashram * kashi.org

This is Ma's introduction to a guided meditation and pranayam which can help us break our addictions. The full tape will be available soon, but this brief excerpt can lead you into the silence of meditation. (4 minutes)

Ma Jaya on Discipline & Procrastination

© 2008 Kashi Ashram * kashi.org

Introducing a weekend intensive just before the New Year, Ma speaks of discipline as a joy, not a chore, and explains how procrastination steals us from the moment. (5 minutes)

Shakti and the Soul

© 2008 Kashi Ashram * www.kashi.org

Ma Jaya speaks of the soul, and reminds us of the "mystic seed" within us all. This is the beginning of a longer guided meditation, and the complete recording will be available soon. (5 minutes)

Ma Jaya on Transcending Depression

© 2008 Kashi Ashram * www.kashi.org

In this darshan, Ma Jaya explains how to deal with the habitual thoughts that can box us in to depression. She also speaks of tantra and earthly samadhi, and recites lines from Ram Prasad, “This time I will devour thee utterly, Kali Ma….” (12 minutes)

Ma Jaya - The Temple of Nothingness

© 2008 Kashi Ashram * http://www.kashi.org

Ma Jaya speaks of awareness and tantra as she introduces a deep guided meditation. Allow this introduction to lead you into meditation. (4 minutes)

"The real glory of meditation lies not
in any method but in its continual
living experience of presence."


- Sogyal Rinpoche, Living Well, Dying Well

What really matters is not just the practice of sitting
but far more the state of mind you find yourself in after meditation.
It is this calm and centered state of mind
you should prolong though everything you do.

~ Sogyal Rinpoche, Glimpse After Glimpse: Daily Reflections on Living and Dying

Meditation is not about the goal, about arriving somewhere, it is the
joy of discovering oneself and all the mysteries of life.
Every day a new star, a new insight.
Many great things will come out of meditation but they will happen on
their own, they are surprises, presents.
While meditating one should not expect anything, everything will come
on its own accord.

~ Tishan

I like the sensation of freedom
that none puts a delaying hand on me, and I can, like the Indians, after being a house-holder retire to the jungle to meditate.

~A.E.


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"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty [contentment?] and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt."

~ Saint Francis of Assisi

Be A Witness

There is only one secret which is not part of the mind, and that is
witnessing, watching. Thoughts are passing, desires are moving,
memories are coming and going like clouds in the sky and you are
sitting silently simply watching, not doing anything...
And that awareness takes you beyond the mind.
It is true meditation.

Osho