Wisdom of the Masters

A meditative exploration of what a true spiritual guide is and how awareness itself teaches. Short reflections contrast self‑serving teachers with sincere ones and emphasize inner freedom over obedience. Topics include silence as the deepest teaching, the guru as mirror and principle of awareness, and how realization makes external guides unnecessary.

Peace Pilgrim, spiritual teacher and peace activist who walked over 25,000 miles for a Pilgrimage for Peace, shares reflections on inner transformation and simplicity. She speaks about walking as an inward and outward practice. She highlights letting go of possessions, love as the greatest power, giving without expectation, and the quiet power of a loving life.

A guided reading of Dudjom Rinpoche’s Dzogchen teachings on recognizing the one freeing principle. Short practical guidance on posture, breath, and resting in open awareness. Clear distinctions between wandering thoughts and the mind’s luminous essence. Instructions for sustaining recognition through meditation, faith, and diligent practice.

A guided transmission of Bon Dzogchen pointers that invites resting like the open sky. Short teachings emphasize no technique, no meditator, and the mind’s unborn nature. Instructions explore cutting off habitual thinking, trusting spontaneous clarity, and letting phenomena self-liberate. Gentle ambient spaces deepen the contemplative pointing for longer, uncontrived rest.

This deeply relaxing 30 minute guided Yoga Nidra will help you relax, find inner peace and drift into a deep sleep. It follows a gentle guidance of sweeping the attention throughout the various body parts in order to relax and let go of any tension in the body and mind. It contains soft background music to help you relax and feel deep inner peace.Music: Uppbeat Licensed Music🙏 May whatever goodness arises from these readings/offerings be for the benefit of all sentient beings.🔆 Thank you to everyone who has written to inquire about offering a donation or gift. You are welcome to do so, and all offerings will go towards supporting monastic requisites and overheads at Viveka Hermitage.There are two options to donate using this email address: vivekahermitage@gmail.com with PayPalor using this link: https://paypal.me/VivekaHermitage Alternatively, donations can also be made via 𝐖𝐈𝐒𝐄 - you can use this direct link:https://wise.com/pay/me/margarets448or please contact us on the email above for account details if you have problems.

Ajahn Maha Boowa, a revered Thai Forest meditation master and disciple of Ajahn Mun, speaks on the nature of the citta and the path to its purification. He explores how awareness differs from conditioned mind. He describes progressive separations from body and defilements, meditative calm revealing pure knowing, and the citta’s final, locationless freedom.

Readings of a 10th-century Sufi mystic on standing before the Divine and losing the self in overwhelming presence. Short, cryptic texts probe the limits of language, intellect, and spiritual sight. Themes include divine showing, silence versus proclamation, traces of God everywhere, and the call to ‘stand in bewilderment’ as a spiritual posture.

Readings explore the idea that God dwells within the soul as a living presence. Themes include cultivating interior silence, surrendering self, and finding union through recollection. Pain and suffering are presented as places of communion and spiritual shaping. The Carmelite practice of quiet adoration and living in the eternal present is highlighted throughout.

These profound teachings on the nature of pure consciousness as taught by Sri Ramana Maharshi were taken from various sources/texts, including, 'Talks with Ramana Maharshi,' 'Day by Day with Bhagavan' and 'The Maharshi’s Gospel'.Ramana Maharshi (1879 -1950) was an Indian sage and jivanmukta (liberated being). He was born Venkataraman Iyer, but is mostly known by the name Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. He was born in Tiruchuli, Tamil Nadu, India. In 1895, an attraction to the sacred hill Arunachala and the 63 Nayanmars was aroused in him and in 1896, at the age of 16, he had a "death-experience" where he became aware of a "current" or "force" which he recognized as his true "I" or "Self".Music: Arunachala Siva chant - produced by Ramana Maharshi Centre for Learning, Bangalore - India._____________________________🙏 May whatever goodness arises from these readings/offerings be for the benefit of all sentient beings.🔆 Thank you to everyone who has written to inquire about offering a donation or gift. You are welcome to do so, and all offerings will go towards supporting monastic requisites and overheads at Viveka Hermitage.There are two options to donate using this email address: vivekahermitage@gmail.com with PayPalor using this link: https://paypal.me/VivekaHermitage Alternatively, donations can also be made via 𝐖𝐈𝐒𝐄 - you can use this direct link:https://wise.com/pay/me/margarets448or please contact us on the email above for account details if you have problems.

A meditative reading explores God as unmoved, pure being and the One prior to number and time. Themes include the soul’s subtle authority, sudden illumination lifting the mind, and the contrast between created strife and divine freedom. Reflections on solitude, upward rebirth, and rest in God frame a mystical map of inner awakening.