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Before and After Meditation (P001) ▸

Before and After Meditation (P001)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ practice-series ⁘ created 2024-08-01 ⁘ updated 2025-07-02 ⁘ words 2839 ⁘ 26:43 min
  • Overview of supporting practices before and after a session of meditation. Including: Dedicating place and time. Seat and scene of practice. Basic purification. Meditation postures. Initial breathing. Invocation and declaration of intent. Practice of meditation proper. Post-meditation phase of reflection. Dedication and affirmation. Read more...

Dealing with Distractions in Meditation (P003) ▸

Dealing with Distractions in Meditation (P003)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ practice-series ⁘ created 2024-08-07 ⁘ updated 2025-11-14 ⁘ words 3671 ⁘ 34:05 min
  • We explore a range of methods and strategies for dealing with distracting thoughts and external disturbances during our practice of meditation. From non-reactivity to breathwork, to modulating mental spaces, objects of attention and modes of practice; into evaluation, deconstruction and termination when distractions still persist. Read more...

Introspective Reflection — Scanning the Body and Mind (P004) ▸

Introspective Reflection — Scanning the Body and Mind (P004)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ practice-series ⁘ created 2024-08-11 ⁘ updated 2025-11-18 ⁘ words 3888 ⁘ 38:21 min
  • Self-knowledge is an essential fruit of our meditative practice. Through the practice of meditation, our sensitivity to observing physical and mental phenomena will increase. In today's training, we look at methodical techniques of introspective meditation, scanning through the various layers of the body and the mind, to deepen our self-awareness and meditative access. Read more...

Rhythms and Habits of Wholesome Life ▸

Rhythms and Habits of Wholesome Life
  • ⊂ texts ⊆ practice ⁘ created 2024-11-06 ⁘ updated 2025-10-02 ⁘ words 1897 ⁘ 00:00 min
  • This set of guidelines was written as a basic scaffold for more balanced rhythms and routines of life for two aspirants seeking to establish themselves on the path of self-awareness. We also look at helpful and harmful habits. May these notes prove useful for you too. Read more...

12 Juice Jewels Campsite Beyond Gunatamano Bay (AU004) ▸

12 Juice Jewels Campsite Beyond Gunatamano Bay (AU004)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ actually-unhinged ⁘ created 2025-12-10 ⁘ updated 2025-12-15 ⁘ words 499 ⁘ 02:57 min
  • Let's all go to concentration camps. Trial all those new wave ascetic practices. But alas. Joint chiefs of staff are too high to recognize our hidden mujahideen beards. Winepress of God's fury churneth out juice generation after generation. Consider the station of the nation. Crack open your third eye. Wear proudly the breastplate of judgment with 12 radiant jewels. Read more...

Integrated Self-Inquiry — Risks and Yields (LA004) ▸

Integrated Self-Inquiry — Risks and Yields (LA004)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ living-awareness ⁘ created 2025-10-25 ⁘ updated 2025-10-25 ⁘ words 763 ⁘ 04:26 min
  • Inquire yourself away — leap into yonder transcendence? If you're a sage in a loincloth — sure that's an option. The rest of us must reconcile our evolving self-awareness. Mindful self-navigation, unveiling, into living integration. Risk of dissociation is very real with unhinged practice. Encounter the aspects of your being and witness them as-is. Read more...

Integrated Ethics — Wisdom in Interaction (I002) ▸

Integrated Ethics — Wisdom in Interaction (I002)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ insight-series ⁘ created 2024-08-12 ⁘ updated 2025-10-17 ⁘ words 3961 ⁘ 37:53 min
  • Principles of interaction that lead to harmonic and fulfilling coexistence are a core aspect of the path of practice toward self-purification. A clear ethical foundation, rooted in reflection and wisdom, is the guide and guardian of our life in the world that we, through contemplation and experience, establish for ourselves. Read more...

What's Going On Meditation — Clear Integral Awareness (P008) ▸

What's Going On Meditation — Clear Integral Awareness (P008)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ practice-series ⁘ created 2025-05-15 ⁘ updated 2025-06-29 ⁘ words 1357 ⁘ 12:00 min
  • What's going on? Like — actually? If you want to know what's actually going on. You need to get into "What's Going On?" meditation. Snap out of the tunnel — reach into the lucid planes of metacognition. Doesn't cost you anything — no need to go anywhere. Clear some space in your awareness, pay attention to what's going on. Read more...

A Brief Meditation Guide — Breath, Soham and Reflection ▸

A Brief Meditation Guide — Breath, Soham and Reflection
  • ⊂ notes ⊆ recordings ⁘ created 2025-09-22 ⁘ updated 2025-09-22 ⁘ words 916 ⁘ 07:30 min
  • A basic guide into simple meditative practice. We engage three distinct but mutually supporting modes of meditation. 1. Breath and the establishment of peaceful basic presence. 2. Mantra and the harnessing of directed attention and resonance. 3. Self-reflection and the cultivation of wisdom in witnessing awareness. Read more...

Bhagavad-Gita: 06 - The Yoga of Contemplation - v1.4 ▸

Bhagavad-Gita: 06 - The Yoga of Contemplation - v1.4
  • ⊂ trans ⊆ bg ⁘ created 2025-02-02 ⁘ updated 2025-02-02 ⁘ words 6746 ⁘ 00:00 min
  • The sixth chapter of Bhagavad-Gita explores dhyana-yoga, the path of union through contemplative practice. It discusses the state and effects of yoga, literally union, and the practices and path of the yogi, the contemplator on a quest for that union. Read more...

Pool of Spoken Word → Echoes of Insight ▸

Pool of Spoken Word → Echoes of Insight
  • ⊂ page ⊆ root ⁘ created 2025-04-20 ⁘ updated 2025-06-18 ⁘ words 4436 ⁘ 00:00 min
  • Assortment of audio materials. This is a catalogue of audio versions for all the video reels. Videos and transcripts linked in — whichever media you prefer. Processing more as time permits. Then dive into the pool of spoken word — there be treasures. Read more...

Collaborations ⁘ The Same Page — Baselines and Orientation ▸

Collaborations ⁘ The Same Page — Baselines and Orientation
  • ⊂ page ⊆ root ⁘ created 2025-08-28 ⁘ updated 2025-09-04 ⁘ words 1388 ⁘ 00:00 min
  • If you've landed here — then I or someone in the know linked you up. Greetings. We have parallel interests and ongoing operations then. Collaboration starts with quality communication. We establish the shared baselines — aka. The Same Page — for our mutual orientation. These are simple scaffolds to reduce friction and facilitate the smooth course of our attention and efforts. Read more...

FAQ - Basic Answers to Common Queries ▸

FAQ - Basic Answers to Common Queries
  • ⊂ page ⊆ root ⁘ created 2025-06-20 ⁘ updated 2025-07-11 ⁘ words 1392 ⁘ 00:00 min
  • We've collected some common questions and answers for your convenience: Orientation FAQ, Interaction FAQ, Contemplation FAQ. With fresh questions, contact us and we'll respond as may be appropriate. May you find your cler answers. Read more...

Support ⁘ Our Operations → Free for You and Me and All ▸

Support ⁘ Our Operations → Free for You and Me and All
  • ⊂ page ⊆ root ⁘ created 2025-08-29 ⁘ updated 2025-12-24 ⁘ words 1387 ⁘ 00:00 min
  • On supporting the maintenance and evolution of this resource. Everything here is free for all. There are no paywalls. There are no subscriptions. There should be no obstacles to free access into valuable insight. This is not about stuff — this is about our lives and our conscious evolution. On this page • Current Operations • Ways of Supporting • Future Forecasts Read more...

Pool of Videos → Into Direct Insight ▸

Pool of Videos → Into Direct Insight
  • ⊂ page ⊆ root ⁘ created 2024-12-12 ⁘ updated 2025-06-18 ⁘ words 30244 ⁘ 00:00 min
  • Dive into our growing catalogue of videos. Some of them short and to the point. Others dreadfully long but packed with essential musings. Browse the @Mr.Om.Ananda ▸ YouTube channel for the latest digs. Enjoy the show! Read more...

Who Is This? - My Eloquent Egologue ▸

Who Is This? - My Eloquent Egologue
  • ⊂ page ⊆ root ⁘ created 2025-05-18 ⁘ updated 2025-06-18 ⁘ words 2526 ⁘ 00:00 min
  • Well it is I of course, your favorite infinity in a nutshell. Embodied for your entertainment, in service to whatever that matters. Some call me Mr. Ananda. Others call me whatever else. Pleased to meet you. Read more...

Positive and Negative Mental States ▸

Positive and Negative Mental States
  • ⊂ texts ⊆ mind ⁘ created 2024-08-21 ⁘ updated 2025-06-21 ⁘ words 2306 ⁘ 00:00 min
  • Our mind is influenced by a spectrum of positive and negative mental states. This list of mental states serves as a basis for self-awareness, introspection, and inquiry into the inner influences that condition and liberate our awareness. Read more...

The Celestial Mandala of Crystal Maitreya ▸

The Celestial Mandala of Crystal Maitreya
  • ⊂ texts ⊆ vintage ⁘ created 2011-06-27 ⁘ updated 2025-08-28 ⁘ words 1650 ⁘ 00:00 min
  • Unfolding of the Celestial Mandala of Crystal Maitreya for the systematic cultivation of luminosity. Contemplating on the celestial appearances of Crystal Maitreya in a cardinal wheel of sixteen permutations over A) Primal Reality, B) Causal Worlds, and C) Phenomenal Worlds. (2011) Read more...

Mystory: Spiritual Madventures Across the Universe ▸

Mystory: Spiritual Madventures Across the Universe
  • ⊂ texts ⊆ vintage ⁘ created 2010-11-10 ⁘ updated 2025-08-28 ⁘ words 6465 ⁘ 00:00 min
  • I gather I've inadvertently turned into something of an enigma with my colorful and transdimensional history. It may be hard to get an overall idea of what the heck exactly happened over the last 15 years. This is an attempt to syndicate the gist of the journey into one place. (2010) Read more...

Plant Your Deepest Roots · Not Bypass Bliss Bubbles (WT005) ▸

Plant Your Deepest Roots · Not Bypass Bliss Bubbles (WT005)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ walkie-talkie ⁘ created 2025-11-28 ⁘ updated 2025-11-30 ⁘ words 512 ⁘ 02:59 min
  • Would you like to be a fluttering butterfly in your little bliss bubble? Well damn — bad news for you then. You may bypass the reality of the world — but reality will not bypass your hallucinations. Come the season, bliss bubbles meet thunder. Don't be a clueless little daisy. Be a deep-rooted banyan tree. Plant your roots in the zenith of heaven. Read more...

Head Screwed On Clear × Emotional Hasslings (BZ003) ▸

Head Screwed On Clear × Emotional Hasslings (BZ003)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ brief-snaps ⁘ created 2025-11-16 ⁘ updated 2025-11-16 ⁘ words 586 ⁘ 02:59 min
  • Ever had a backseat driver vibe you sideways and damn near into an accident? Distracted when your chainsaw's running mid-way into that wobbly tree? There's time for emotions and random bursts from the subconscious spheres. There's time for clear and rational operation. Know the difference — act accordingly. Read more...

Your Concrete Inner Palace + Prime Pattern Rebar Fibers (RB005) ▸

Your Concrete Inner Palace + Prime Pattern Rebar Fibers (RB005)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ random-banter ⁘ created 2025-12-08 ⁘ updated 2025-12-09 ⁘ words 481 ⁘ 03:00 min
  • Sure build that palace of awareness. Work it proper and solid. Vibrate and compact the concrete forms. No can have have random gaps and cracks. Install prime pattern rebar for the flexible skeleton. Ensure load-bearing structural integrity. All of life is a metaphor for awareness. World of formations is your training ground. Existence is your work-site. Everything is relevant. Principles are universal. Read more...

On Entering Actuality — What's Going On Meditation (N002) ▸

On Entering Actuality — What's Going On Meditation (N002)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ introspectrum ⁘ created 2025-07-01 ⁘ updated 2025-07-01 ⁘ words 533 ⁘ 03:56 min
  • For those who seek clarity and self-awareness. Get to know your contents — understand your inner constructs. Instincts, emotions, thoughts, identity — none of that is you. Polarized reactions — yes this, no that — condition you to the core. Rise beyond the phenomena in your being. Enter the planes of metacognition. Clear away your projections. Remember. Read more...

Slipped to Swamp — Inquiry Back to Awareness (LA001) ▸

Slipped to Swamp — Inquiry Back to Awareness (LA001)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ living-awareness ⁘ created 2025-10-22 ⁘ updated 2025-10-22 ⁘ words 631 ⁘ 03:33 min
  • Damn! Slipped and fell again from a plane of clarity. Mere moments ago I was the calm witness of existence. What manner of magic is this? Why do I stumble and fall? What can I do to immunize myself — to not be pulled under? We enter the process of self-inquiry — both general and specific. Train yourself to remember — remember to ask the right questions! Read more...

Self-Inquiry — From Egg-Shells to Self-Realization (LA002) ▸

Self-Inquiry — From Egg-Shells to Self-Realization (LA002)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ living-awareness ⁘ created 2025-10-23 ⁘ updated 2025-10-23 ⁘ words 631 ⁘ 03:54 min
  • What is real self-inquiry? Let's be very clear. It's not an affirmation repetition exercise. It's not a disconnected philosophical indulgence. It's a method of shifting attention to your source. In our quest for the source of raw prime consciousness, we discover and extract our attention from veiling shells. Go deeper, go further inward. Seek the ultimate inquirer. Read more...

Focal Lengths of Awareness (K008) ▸

Focal Lengths of Awareness (K008)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ kernel-talks ⁘ created 2025-07-04 ⁘ updated 2025-07-04 ⁘ words 823 ⁘ 05:46 min
  • Focal lengths of awareness. Whatever does that include? Microscope: Near and high-definition. Telescope: Far and broad-reaching. Narrow-band / Broad-band / Middle-band. These are not a mere matter of meditation. Concentration and mindfulness, yes that's there — but also relevant in our day-to-day awareness. Read more...

Indecision — The Liminal Drift You Mistake for Freedom (K013) ▸

Indecision — The Liminal Drift You Mistake for Freedom (K013)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ kernel-talks ⁘ created 2025-08-02 ⁘ updated 2025-09-17 ⁘ words 919 ⁘ 05:39 min
  • We often procrastinate — postpone and bypass decisions. Who knows — we might think or feel differently later on. In the meantime, we drift in the freedom of our liminality. Eventually the environment forces your way — its way. Parameters and boundaries have already been set for you. In your misguided freedom, you have limited your prospects. Read more...

Reflective Ethics — Fair Balance Plus (K023) ▸

Reflective Ethics — Fair Balance Plus (K023)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ kernel-talks ⁘ created 2025-07-12 ⁘ updated 2025-11-05 ⁘ words 883 ⁘ 06:17 min
  • Basic ethics. Reciprocal interaction. Golden middle. Fair and just balance in our dealings and all things. We've all heard that — but whoever walks the talk? Self-awareness. Introspection. Owning up your behavior. Snapping out of your self-absorbed state of entitlement. Let us balance ourselves. No other remedy to this world. Read more...

How Do You Feel? — Like an Open Book (OM001) ▸

How Do You Feel? — Like an Open Book (OM001)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ open-musings ⁘ created 2025-08-07 ⁘ updated 2025-08-30 ⁘ words 1190 ⁘ 10:06 min
  • — "How do you feel?", asked an old friend. I feel alright. No longer vexed by existence. Patterns swooshing through space as they may. I bind not to it. I am not — and it's fine. And what of the world? What of the planet? What of religion and spirituality? Of us all? Of your personal life? Of your inner state? — "How do you feel about all that?" I feel like an open book. Read more...

Calling of Truth — Our Positive and Negative Veils (OM005) ▸

Calling of Truth — Our Positive and Negative Veils (OM005)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ open-musings ⁘ created 2025-08-31 ⁘ updated 2025-10-01 ⁘ words 1687 ⁘ 12:15 min
  • "The truth is out there — and in here somewhere... Behind these veils — but I can feel its presence?" But how is it that this truth is not ever with us, intimately present in our lives? Why does it hide so? Raw actuality, uncolored and unbiased, is always there. Ever-available for you — should you remove your veils. We have a negative veil — and we have a positive veil. Read more...

Create to Fulfill Yourself — The World Matters Not (OM006) ▸

Create to Fulfill Yourself — The World Matters Not (OM006)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ open-musings ⁘ created 2025-10-03 ⁘ updated 2025-10-03 ⁘ words 1668 ⁘ 12:14 min
  • Friends feeling sad, struggling with their creative process. Sharing the outflows — but why does the world not respond? Holding anticipations — and paving way for disappointments. But do we truly create for the world — or for ourselves? Artist, musician, author or spirited internet commentator? What emerges — it stems from your own process of evolution. Read more...

No Shortcuts to Self-Awareness and Inner Evolution (OM008) ▸

No Shortcuts to Self-Awareness and Inner Evolution (OM008)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ open-musings ⁘ created 2025-10-16 ⁘ updated 2025-10-18 ⁘ words 1600 ⁘ 12:24 min
  • Were you looking for a neat short-cut to self-awareness? A magic wormhole to jolt you from here to enlightenment? So many pop vendors on the internet. Cheap options abound! If only it were that easy. Just bypassing your inner chores. When you evade the real work of your cognitive purification, there's no cosmic receiver, no vehicle for mystic journeys. Read more...

Communication to Collaboration — Coherence and Convergence (CS001) ▸

Communication to Collaboration — Coherence and Convergence (CS001)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ conscious-systems ⁘ created 2025-10-29 ⁘ updated 2025-10-29 ⁘ words 1130 ⁘ 08:33 min
  • Where we have lofty ideas, where we wish to express and implement them, we must have lucid and well-rounded models of operation. We embrace these principles in our inner conscious architecture — and we externalize them in a matching reflection. As within — so without. Communication, coordination and collaboration precede culmination. Read more...

Hijacking Insight — Medium for Your Ego-Trips (BS002) ▸

Hijacking Insight — Medium for Your Ego-Trips (BS002)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ backyard-stream ⁘ created 2025-09-30 ⁘ updated 2025-10-05 ⁘ words 1397 ⁘ 10:20 min
  • Someone comes up with an insight. Not on the market yet. Mere moments later, that insight becomes their ego ride. We longer operate in service of the insight itself. Instead, the insight is harnessed as your ego's slave. Then we are driven by a burning need to push it out there. For validating ourselves, for establishing our special status. Read more...

Into the Cave — Quest for Your Ground of Being (BS004) ▸

Into the Cave — Quest for Your Ground of Being (BS004)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ backyard-stream ⁘ created 2025-10-27 ⁘ updated 2025-10-31 ⁘ words 1111 ⁘ 08:18 min
  • When you seek the deep essence of what you are. Soar not with the high winds into entropy afar. Enter the cave and encounter your inner gravity. Blueprints etched into the ground of your being. If you do not excavate the nature of your roots. If there is no container for your living harvest. If there is no closed sphere of self-reflexivity. No reactions, no reconciliation, no integration. Read more...

Oh My God Bless You — Abstract Gods of Actuality (MS001) ▸

Oh My God Bless You — Abstract Gods of Actuality (MS001)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ mythoscope ⁘ created 2025-10-06 ⁘ updated 2025-10-09 ⁘ words 2825 ⁘ 22:08 min
  • Let's talk about God. As in, actually. They ask me, Do you believe in God? Your God, a God, the God, or what God? A vague and most meaningless question. Let's talk about the God of Abraham et al. Let's review candidate Gods from the existential fabric. Prime consciousness. Transcendent Nondual God: Potential field beyond formations. Immanent Omnipresent God: Collective system of all knowledge. Read more...

The Enlightened Dumbass — Into Actual Knowledge (QD026) ▸

The Enlightened Dumbass — Into Actual Knowledge (QD026)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ quick-drops ⁘ created 2025-09-06 ⁘ updated 2025-10-11 ⁘ words 752 ⁘ 04:17 min
  • So you touched upon a jolly ray of enlightenment? Instantly transforming into an omniscient expert. Now a virtuoso in explaining Sanskrit upside down. Can even vibe to bits the standard model of physics. When you reach into awareness beyond the subject, you're just landing at a platform of possibilities. You can look into actuality without self-distortions. Read more...

Distill Your Egos — Engage Your Archetypes (QD030) ▸

Distill Your Egos — Engage Your Archetypes (QD030)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ quick-drops ⁘ created 2025-10-11 ⁘ updated 2025-10-16 ⁘ words 768 ⁘ 03:46 min
  • One does not simply get rid of the ego. Why would you? An operational necessity — the essence of your presence. Instead: Perfect your egos into enlightened instruments. These are natural roles in interaction, necessary for your operation. Refine them to archetypal class — master your engagement. Read more...

Into the Zone — Peak Attention Dynamics (QD032) ▸

Into the Zone — Peak Attention Dynamics (QD032)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ quick-drops ⁘ created 2025-10-15 ⁘ updated 2025-10-17 ⁘ words 743 ⁘ 04:30 min
  • Zones: Domains of peak attention and efficiency. Maximum signal. What's inside will not leak out. Minimum noise. What's outside will not enter in. Perimeters of focus in awareness and environment. Zones exist both in meditation and in hands-on life. Islands of high-energy and high-definition operation. Read more...

Walking That High Talk — The Inward Warrior (QD039) ▸

Walking That High Talk — The Inward Warrior (QD039)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ quick-drops ⁘ created 2025-11-04 ⁘ updated 2025-11-05 ⁘ words 471 ⁘ 02:59 min
  • Talking is cheap. Walking your high talk burns your impurities. Then be not a bypassing hypocrite on the path. What is this spiritual warrior that they speak of? Someone who lashes out at others to validate themselves? Or someone who turns inward and slashes their own weeds? Don't be a bullshit warrior making a show of your spirits. Read more...

An Anthology for Oblivion · Rambler Without a Cause (MC001) ▸

An Anthology for Oblivion · Rambler Without a Cause (MC001)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ midnight-current ⁘ created 2025-12-31 ⁘ updated 2025-12-31 ⁘ words 3374 ⁘ 29:50 min
  • Broad spectrum of contemplations in one uncut stream. Into the meaning of life — and of death too. Yes of the productions happening. And books and new platforms too. And who the hell am I? A brief backstory there. Are you awake and what is wakefulness? And why are you darting around in myopic tunnels. I can't publish the first shred of fascinating when your foundations are veiled and all fidgety. Read more...

Dealing with Desire — Transcend the Churning (R005) ▸

Dealing with Desire — Transcend the Churning (R005)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ reflection-series ⁘ created 2024-12-04 ⁘ updated 2025-07-05 ⁘ words 2847 ⁘ 25:02 min
  • Pushes and pulls of our existence. We need to deal with them, we need to navigate wisely. That wisdom begins with recognition, clear understanding, and introspection. We separate need and want. We comprehend and contextualize desire. We understand its ephemerality, the waves of its coming and going, the hallucinatory nature of the "objects" we pursue. Read more...