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Before and After Meditation (P001) ▸

Before and After Meditation (P001)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ practice-seriescreated 2024-08-01updated 2025-07-02 words 2887 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-seriescreated 2024-08-07updated 2025-11-14 words 3722 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-seriescreated 2024-08-11updated 2025-11-18 words 3949 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 ⊆ practicecreated 2024-11-06updated 2025-10-02 words 1903 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...

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

Integrated Self-Inquiry — Risks and Yields (LA004)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ living-awarenesscreated 2025-10-25updated 2025-10-25 words 822 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-seriescreated 2024-08-12updated 2025-10-17 words 4017 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-seriescreated 2025-05-15updated 2025-06-29 words 1423 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 ⊆ recordingscreated 2025-09-22updated 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 ⊆ bgcreated 2025-02-02updated 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 ⊆ rootcreated 2025-04-20updated 2025-06-18 words 1321 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 ⊆ rootcreated 2025-08-28updated 2025-09-04 words 1389 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 ⊆ rootcreated 2025-06-20updated 2025-07-11 words 1394 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 ⊆ rootcreated 2025-08-29updated 2025-08-29 words 1265 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 ⊆ rootcreated 2024-12-12updated 2025-06-18 words 9583 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 ⊆ rootcreated 2025-05-18updated 2025-05-18 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 ⊆ mindcreated 2024-08-21updated 2024-08-21 words 2311 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 ⊆ vintagecreated 2011-06-27updated 2025-08-28 words 1696 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 ⊆ vintagecreated 2010-11-10updated 2025-08-28 words 6521 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...

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

On Entering Actuality — What's Going On Meditation (N002)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ introspectrumcreated 2025-07-01updated 2025-07-01 words 594 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-awarenesscreated 2025-10-22updated 2025-10-22 words 704 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-awarenesscreated 2025-10-23updated 2025-10-23 words 695 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-talkscreated 2025-07-04updated 2025-07-04 words 868 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-talkscreated 2025-08-02updated 2025-09-17 words 983 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-talkscreated 2025-07-12updated 2025-11-05 words 939 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-musingscreated 2025-08-07updated 2025-08-30 words 1275 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-musingscreated 2025-08-31updated 2025-10-01 words 1766 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-musingscreated 2025-10-03updated 2025-10-03 words 1731 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-musingscreated 2025-10-16updated 2025-10-18 words 1668 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-systemscreated 2025-10-29updated 2025-10-29 words 1187 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-streamcreated 2025-09-30updated 2025-10-05 words 1464 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-streamcreated 2025-10-27updated 2025-10-31 words 1190 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 ⊆ mythoscopecreated 2025-10-06updated 2025-10-09 words 2900 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...

Head Screwed On Clear × Emotional Hasslings (BZ003) ▸

Head Screwed On Clear × Emotional Hasslings (BZ003)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ brief-snapscreated 2025-11-16updated 2025-11-16 words 641 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...

The Enlightened Dumbass — Into Actual Knowledge (QD026) ▸

The Enlightened Dumbass — Into Actual Knowledge (QD026)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ quick-dropscreated 2025-09-06updated 2025-10-11 words 816 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-dropscreated 2025-10-11updated 2025-10-16 words 821 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-dropscreated 2025-10-15updated 2025-10-17 words 796 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-dropscreated 2025-11-04updated 2025-11-05 words 538 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...

Dealing with Desire — Transcend the Churning (R005) ▸

Dealing with Desire — Transcend the Churning (R005)
  • ⊂ talks ⊆ reflection-seriescreated 2024-12-04updated 2025-07-05 words 2911 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...