Roger This

Being, Understanding, Doing (guided meditation 30min)

First, I tried to change reality.
Then, I endeavoured to simply understand it.
At last, I ceased striving for either.

And life revealed itself to itself, as itself.
From this arose the understanding I had sought,
Which brought forth the change I had longed.

Which Time/Day for the Live Sessions?

Narrowing down options after asking people. Please vote which time/day you would most likely attend the live sessions. Also if you didn't respond to my previous post, please comment or message me when works best for you for the live meditation sessions (with your time zone).

You can select multiple options.

Where is my mind? (guided meditation 29min)

🎶 Where is my mind? Where is my mind? Wheeereee is my mind? 🎶

Live Meditation Session Time?

Good people, I'm reaching out to all of you to ask you when you would like the Zoom groups to occur.

Please comment or send me a message saying which days of the week and at which time you'd prefer and likely to attend the live meditation sessions (please include the time zone). Thanks.

Connecting to our life guiding intentions (guided contemplation 23min)

Deeply Hearing a Sub Agent in the Hive Mind (guided parts work 26min)

Take the time to hear and feel all of you out. This process is so healing, so transformative and is the way to greater world wide love. Very inspired by IFS (Internal Family Systems), 'parts work' is about attending to the needs of all of your parts - or 'aspects' as I prefer to say - most of which are buried deep within the unconscious, and just need the space, light, peace and love of our awareness to make themselves known.

*First 1:44 is an intro and caveat.

Preview for tomorrow's Zoom group (Thurs 24th)

Neti Neti The Neti Neti (guided meditation 40min)

Going longer, going deeper, going different, going meta.

Neti Neti (guided meditation 26min)

"Not this, not that." A simple method for finding truth and realising the absolute.

Flow & Stillness with the Body Breath (guided meditation 22min)

Had the privilege to lead a guided meditation at the Glasgow Buddhist Centre during a poetry sharing evening. This is what came out.

Lots of silent spaces in this one. Enjoy☸️

Contextualising The Mind (guided meditation 34min)

'Context' is one of my favourite words, for it is only due to context can anything make sense or exist. A greater context of mind provides greater understanding, which allows for a pervasive equanimity to saturate all experiences. The context provided here is not to be considered a hierarchal list, but all entailing each other.

Advice for dealing with sleepiness in meditation (talk)

Tracking the organic quality of attention (guided meditation 28min)

Instructions until 3:28
The purpose of this meditation is to track certain characteristics of experience as they naturally change in time so we can learn about the stages of insight on the micro scale. These stages happen organically and by knowing of them and following them we can adjust our practice accordingly and begin to predict when cessations* are likely to occur.

*very important 

Priming and selective bias remain an epistemic issue if you wish to consider the stag...

Not A Member? Purchase individual meditations!

If you haven't subscribed to the weekly guided meditations and online group, but still want to listen to some of my 100+ guided meditations from time to time if one picks your fancy, then now you can purchase individual meditations. This may be a preferable option, especially for those unsure yet if they want to sign up for all my weekly meditations.

Finding Wellbeing (guided meditation/reflection 30min)

Centre yourself and tune in as we contemplate and feel into different facets of wellbeing.

May all beings love and be loved. May all beings be free from suffering 🙏

New Patreon Feature: Live Drops 👍or👎

Patreon has this new feature called drops where I can schedule a time for a post to be released and then it creates a countdown until it drops. Then when the timer reaches zero, people can listen to the new guided meditation and it shows you who else is listening live. After the live drop sessions ends, the recording is up like normal, like it's always been.

Are people into this not? And then secondly, if yes when would be a good time to release the guided meditations as live drops - ei...

Craving, Aversion & Equanimity (guided meditation 27min)

In general, are you more an aversive type or a craving type? Notice the leanings of your mind on the subtle, moment to moment scale to better understand the nature of your dukkha.

Preparation for a mature 1st Jhana (guided meditation 37min)

A mature 1st Jhana is not about blasting your mind with fizzling fireworks of piti (which is unsustainable and more a symptom of repressed energy being released). Instead, we're going for a slower, subtler boil of gradual, appreciative bodily "pleasure born of seclusion" (to quote the suttas directly). This method I've found is a much more reliable and sustainable way of building up to 1st Jhana.

Preview for tomorrow's (Thursday 22nd) Zoom group.

The Hum of Being (guided meditation 35min)

Even God blinks. 🕉️💚

Exquisitely detailed body scanning (guided meditation 47min)

Due to the intimate relation between somatic sensations and tanha, and the other senses, an important achievement in this lifetime is to be able to consciously feel every square inch of your body. It's not just that the body keeps the score, the world is your body - so feel it!

Dealing with Anxiety (guided meditation 23min)

A soothing, gentle, simple guided meditation to unwind, de-stress and relax any feelings of anxiety. The tools are your own and always available to you, I'm just pointing them out.

I would like a guided meditation on....

Asking everyone! Meditations centred around which technique or theme would you like more of?

Either comment below on this post, or private message me, or use my anonymous feedback link pinned at the top. 🪅💀👹🌞

Who Controls The Show? (guided meditation 32min)

Another self inquiry meditation - an important one, at that!

A famous maxim of Stoicism is: 'focus on what you can control and don't fight the rest'. Though we may have many initial presumptions about what lies in our control, unless we clearly examine the locus of our presumed power we may remain deeply deluded and spend a life time fighting what we never had any influence on in the first place.

Knowing the Knower? (guided meditation 37min)

Prepare the mind, creating the right conditions for self-inquiry.

What knows this experience? Where does this elusive epistemic agent rest? What can you ever truly be sure to know?

Finding yourself in time (guided meditation 32min)

Time is a mysterious thing, of which we only ever sees its shadow. Our sense of time depends on how we relate to it. Listened to this meditation to get a better understanding of how you relate to time, at different scales, and where you appear to be situated during all of this. In turn, having metacognition around our perception of time leads to understanding its emptiness.

The self in space (guided meditation 39min)

After settling in, getting concentrated and equanimous, inquire into where you find the sense of self spatially. Having clarity on one's self location in space is hugely important in making sense of your experience, what is the self and mapping the mind - all towards gaining a deeper understanding of reality.

Which Collections category of meditation do you find most valuable?

Feel free to select multiple!

(Haven't listed all of them, but what I think would be the main big contenders)

Consciously connecting our Mental, Emotional and Physical states (guided meditation 40min)

Tune in, become aware and notice how our thoughts are shaped by our emotions, which are shaped by our physical condition; and how our physical condition is shaped by our emotions which are shaped by our thoughts; and in turn how our thoughts shape our physical state and our physical state shapes our thoughts.

Intuitive Meditation (guided meditation 32min)

In a complete role-reversal from last week's meditation (strong determination sitting), this time we give the organism the space and time to be weird and uncensored. By taking time to not inhibit any urges or let our mind be occupied by any task we can learn a lot about what's within ourselves just waiting to come out!