Spiritual Traditions

Dependent Origination

By Christina Feldman

The process of dependent origina­tion is sometimes said to be the heart or the essence of all Buddhist teaching. What is described in the process is the way in which suffering can arise in our lives, and the way in which it can end.

Brahma

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, I am the hymn the Brahmin sings.

The Real

By Lalla

Lalla (14th centrury) was a great saint and mystic from the Kashmir province of India.

The Absolute

By Sri Chinmoy

No mind, no form, I only exist;

A Full Awareness of the Feelings

By Jack Kornfield

For many meditators, reclaiming an awareness of feelings is a long and difficult process. Yet in Buddhist psychology bringing consciousness to feelings is critical for awakening.

33:00 – FREE

The Art of Letting Go (Excerpt), Introduction and Guided Meditation

With Peter Russell

“letting in” and “letting be” leads to a much easier approach than the conventional trying to let go we usually default to

1:04:00 – FREE

#22 Embodying the Unknown

With Ellen Emmet

Touching into listening, embodiment, the shadow, and devotion with teacher and author Ellen Emmet

A Buddhist teacher’s meditations on confronting white supremacy

By David Montgomery and Lama Rod Owens

Lama Rod Owens is interviewed by David Montgomery for The Washington Post on Love and Rage, spiritual activism, Buddhism and white supremacy.

EVERYTHING is included!

By Joan Tollifson

Waking Up to the Wonder of Here and Now...

54:00 – FREE

#19 The Wonder of the Heart: A.H. Almaas & Thomas Hübl

With A.H. Almaas and Thomas Hübl

A dialog between two modern spiritual teachers on the nature and wonder of the heart

The look of love is different from the look of thought

By J. Krishnamurti

...As you walk back by the little farmhouses, the meadows, and the railway line, you will see that yesterday has come to an end: life begins where thought ends...

The SANDs of Time Flow Through Space Arrive as Knowledge

By Newcomb Greenleaf

Consciousness is not a thing. Asking “What is consciousness?” is like asking “Where does light come from?”, while watching a movie.

Peace Is This Moment Without Judgment

By Dorothy Hunt

Do you think peace requires an end to war? Or tigers eating only vegetables?

Shadow and Nonduality: A Cry of the Heart

By Ellen Emmet

What am I up to when, with a couple of blindingly luminous formulations, I claim to take my stand as Awareness and to allow everything, free from resistance, effortlessly?

38:00 – FREE

Letting go of "I, Me, Mine"

With Gary Weber

has thinking in the modern-day human outlived its purpose?

18:00 – FREE

Self-Realization

With A.H. Almaas

A.H. Almaas discusses neuroscience and the self, continuity of consciousness, the construction of the self, self-identity, and the suffering that can arise.

My Prayer for a Beautiful World in Distress

By Joan Tollifson

May we all have compassion for every one of us being exactly as we are in each moment

Electrical Engineering and the Meaning of Life

By Richard Turilli

The measure of resistance in electrical engineering is called the Ohm. Although this Ohm has no known relation to the common Eastern chants with the same sound, it was no doubt a coincidence

A Teaching Story about Gratitude

By Robert Frager

from The Wisdom of Islam: An Introduction to the Living Experience of Islamic Belief and Practice

1:32:00 – FREE

The Leading Edge Of The Unknown In The Human Being

With Ken Wilber

Exploring lines, levels, and stages of Spiritual Development and Integral Theory.

34:00 – FREE

Doorways to the Infinite

With Sally Kempton

Sally Kempton speaks of her history, Tantra practice, and goddess worship in an interview with Science and Nonduality.

27:00 – FREE

#9 The Universe in Ecstatic Motion

With Mona Haydar

In this live SAND Conference talk Mona offers some beautiful sacred wisdom from her Islamic tradition with that special Science and Nonduality flavor weaving her talk through the ancient and the modern, the light and dark in this talk.

50:00 – FREE

The Clear Eye “I” at the Center of a Storm

With Dorothy Hunt

There is a dimension of our Being that is never in crisis

Samhain

By History.com

Samhain is a pagan religious festival originating from an ancient Celtic spiritual tradition. In modern times, Samhain is usually celebrated from October 31 to November 1 to welcome in the harvest and usher in “the dark half of the year.”

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#8 Evolving with Consciousness

With Peter Russell

We look back at a selection of talks of Peter's from SAND conferences and host a discussion about his history with science and spirituality

A Conversation with Nothing

By Jessica Summers

Nothing would do what is required in each moment without a point of view of how others see it. Greatness is a judgement from the outside or, if it is from the inside, then it is a judgement that you are less-than.

Compulsion to Closure

By Joan Tollifson

This compulsion to arrive at the Final Truth is, of course, foiled again and again by life itself.

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Falling Open in a World Falling Apart

With Amoda Maa

In this talk with meditation, Amoda Maa offers essential teachings of openness as the doorway to living from the ground of love and presence.

Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

A poem on the impact of resurrection.

31:00 – FREE

Nondualism – Advaita Vedanta – Interview with Sri Vijay Kapoor

With Sri Vijay Kapoor

A philosphical exploration of not-twones that permeates all of our experience

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The Flower of Life ~ Spirit Science

"Watch with an open mind, see what resonates and leave the rest"

30:00 – FREE

Indigenous Nonduality

With Loibon Ol Doinyo Laetoli le Baaba

Kali Baaba offers a deep discourse on the profundity of our shared and universal sense of 'I am'

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#4 Entering the Bardo

With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

In episode 4 of our Podcast we explore the traditional Tibetan Buddhist beliefs of death and dying

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Healing in a Toxic Culture

With Gabor Maté and Tim Ferriss

Promoting his new book 'The Myth of Normal' on the Tim Ferris Show

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The Hard Problem of Matter

With Deepak Chopra and Rupert Spira

exploring the classic idealism vs materialism divide

Everyone Thinks (It's Me)

By Jeffrey Nirenberg

We are born into the world as one and we have no idea of ‘me’, the separate self, for some time until it is gradually instilled upon us by the environment and our developing mind.

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Sufi Whirling in Palestine: Sur Baher Primary School

With Ashira Prem Rachana

SAND guest speaker with a taste of Sufi Whirling

Thoughts on Addiction and a Contemplative Life

By Richard Simonelli

The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous says that alcohol is “cunning, baffling and powerful” in its cause of the disease of alcoholism.

1:00:00 – FREE

#2 Wisdom in Death and Dying

With Stephen Jenkinson

The meaning of death and dying in a death-phobic culture and more on Sounds of SAND Episode 2

Meditating the World through Compassion

By Shakti Caterina Maggi

Compassion is the ability, by Awareness, to recognize and acknowledge only itself everywhere.

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STUDIO 27 / Focused on the Soul – Interview

With Zaya Benazzo and Maurizio Benazzo

Zaya and Maurizio talk about their film projects and the need to spiritually connect people around the world on Prague TV

Waking, Dreaming, Being

By Vikram Zutshi

Vikram Zutshi In Conversation With Evan Thompson This article was first published at the Sutra Journal…

1:10:00 – FREE

#1 Emotional and Spiritual Maturity: Gabor Maté and Adyashanti

With Gabor Maté and Adyashanti

The first episode in our brand new podcast series!

Stand as if you see God

By Ben Bushill

Stand as if you see creation before your eyes and know know that your belonging is undeniable and complete...

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Ceremony of Sorrow, Hope, & Action

With Matthew Fox

Matthew Fox continues his reflections on the ritual of grief and healing by Rabbi Arthur Waskow of The Shalom Center.

One good way to understand religion is to break it apart

By Joseph Blankholm

A freer way of understanding is to grasp what we’ve been asked to know and hold it for a moment at a distance.

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Bring the Mind Back to Your Body

With Master Mingtong Gu

When we bring the mind back to the body, we are able come back to the home within and to live the miracle of life.

Changing The Story

“The only way to change the world is to change the story.” We know only too well the story that defines…

Cleaning

By Mary Lou Kownacki

Instead of sitting with 'om'?

brain-heart

According to Ervin Laszlo, the coherence of the atom and the galaxies is the same coherence that keeps living cells together, cooperating to form life.

16:00 – FREE

All there is is nothing apparently happening

With Tony Parsons

Tony Parsons in conversation with Zaya Benazzo from SAND 2013 Conference

Like a raven in the wind

By Pema Chödrön

Renunciation is realizing that our nostalgia for wanting to stay in a protected, limited, petty world is insane

Take Off Your Spiritual Mask

I am in love with this blessed mess of our humanity, more than ever.

30:00 – FREE

Is There a Feminine Face of the Infinite?

With Marlies Cocheret

Exploring the Feminine side of spirituality, leads her listeners in discussion

Listen to the Listening

By Eric Baret

It is very important not to focus on perception

One Song

By Rumi

All religions, all this singing, one song...

The Sun Never Says

By Hafiz

A timeless treasure of unconditional love

Vimalakirti Opens the Nondual Gate

By James Ford

From his sickbed, Vimalakirti attains insight so deep that even Manjusri, the manifestation of profound wisdom bows to listen

35:00 – FREE

Time is Never Experienced

With Rupert Spira

All experience is now. Try to step out of now into a past or future. Where do we or could we go?

11:00 – FREE

Who Am I?

A Thought Experiment That Changes How You Think About Yourself

Science and Nonduality are One

By J.Paul Jordaans

Separation or Unity, solving or dissolving

Laurie Anderson’s Buddhism: Art, Meditation, and Death as Adventure

By Laurie Anderson

From "A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment" Podcast

I know nothing

By Diane Gagné

I was clinging desperately to knowledge... Dressing it up like a costume

39:00 – FREE

The Blossoming of Consciousness

With Peter Russell

We are living through the most exciting and most challenging times in human history, if not the history of planet.

41:00 – FREE

Death: The End of Self-Improvement

With Joan Tollifson

Instead of denying aging, avoiding death, or fantasizing about some after-life for “me”, Joan points to fully embracing the total disintegration and loss of control that growing old and dying—and living and loving and being awake—actually entails.

What Are You Looking For?

By J. Krishnamurti

To find answers about love and relationships that transcend time, culture, religion, read What Are You Looking For?

1:06:00 – FREE

Our Unborn, Undying Nature

With Rupert Spira

In his meetings Rupert explores the perennial non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great religious and spiritual traditions.

27:00 – FREE

A Cloud Never Dies

With Thich Nhat Hanh

Biographical documentary of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh narrated by Peter Coyote

Trauma and Awakening for Highly Sensitive People

By Jules De Vitto

There are still several unanswered questions surrounding the relationship between trauma and Highly Sensitive People.

50:00 – FREE

Going to the Edge: Exploring Death and Radical Resiliency During the Apocalypse

With Lama Rod Owens

Lama Rod Owens holds a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School and is a co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation.

Contentment

By Go Gu

Contentment counters and overrides our constant tendency to grasp and chase after things

1:22:00 – FREE

Time of the 6th Sun: Toltec Teachings on Life, Death and Transformation

With Brenda Salgado

Brenda weaves traditional medicine, Buddhism, mindfulness, Toltec energy medicine and ancient calendar teachings to help others understand the times we are in as humanity.

Panpsychism

By Matthew Rozsa

The idea that inanimate objects have consciousness gains steam in science communities

Living Spaciously in Times of Contraction

By Laura Johnson

Can we live softly and spaciously, with a loose grip and a joyful heart, even in times of great sorrow and loss?

1:12:00 – FREE

Dying Into Life

With Frank Ostaseski

Caring for people who are dying can be an intense, intimate, and deeply alive experience. It often challenges our most basic beliefs.

Go Slowly, Breathe and Smile

By Rashani Reá and Thich Nhat Hanh

Dharma Art with the Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh

45:00 – FREE

Dying Before Death

With Pir Netanel Miles-Yépez

In the Sufi tradition, there is a saying, “Die before death.” For Sufis, this is an exhortation to befriend death and the process of letting go as a daily spiritual practice.

45:00 – FREE

Heart-break is Heart-Opening — The Gift of Grief

With Unmani

Heart-break is painful. There is no way around that. The loss of a loved one is devastating. It breaks you down. It tears you apart. The life that you thought you were living is no more. The person you thought you were, has died with your loved one.

A Glimpse Into The Empty Awareness

By Jagjot Singh

A glimpse into the empty awareness reveals what one cannot learn over multiple lifetimes

56:00 – FREE

Guidance for Living & Dying: Entering the Bardo

With Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Our ability to meet each moment in life with awareness benefits us immensely at the time of death.

11:00 – FREE

No Birth No Death

With Thich Nhat Hanh

The late Zen Master shares how to look deeply into the true nature of everything

55:00 – FREE

Waking Up From the Illusion of Death

With Deepak Chopra

Deepak shares his reflections on Death and shows us how coming to terms with our own beliefs about it can liberate us.

50:00 – FREE

The Awakening Body

With Ellen Emmet

As individuals and as a culture, we have deeply disconnected from the realm of the body

44:00 – FREE

SAND Archive - The Significance of This Moment

With Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

We live in a culture caught in the illusion of time

37:00 – FREE

SAND Archives - The Christian Meaning Of Enlightenment

With Richard Rohr

The similarities, the differences, and the complementarities between the Eastern and Western understandings of transformation.

1:10:00 – FREE

Trauma and Spirituality

With Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone, Sharon Salzberg, Henry Shukman, and Gabor Maté

21:00 – FREE

The Primacy of Consciousness

With Sam Harris and Rupert Spira

A debate: does epistemological primacy equate to ontological primacy?

1:33:00 – FREE

Conspirituality

With Rick Archer

Why does our current era make some spiritual teachers and students susceptible to misinformation and cult-like thinking?

55:00 – FREE

Awakening the Wisdom of the Inner Body

With Sally Kempton

A series of tantric practices

1:32:00 – FREE

Why Waste a Good Crisis

With Deborah Johnson

Everyone wants to get to Heaven but no one wants to die.

1:16:00 – FREE

Healing Trauma in a Fractured World

With Thomas Hübl and Gabor Maté

1:00:00 – FREE

Practical Wisdom

With A.H. Almaas

A conversation with A.H. Almaas, hosted by Maurizio & Zaya Benazzo.

7:00 – FREE

Selah

With Bayo Akomolafe

A place where things get strange

1:12:00 – FREE

Wounds into Wisdom

With Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone

Combining Jewish texts, neuroscience, and Jungian psychology

1:25:00 – FREE

Humanity Rising

With Zaya Benazzo and Maurizio Benazzo

A Dialogue with Maurizio and Zaya Benazzo

40:00 – FREE

The Miracle of Life

With Klaus Rahikainen

Do you live in fear, or in the miracle of life?

1:33:00 – FREE

Emotional Healing through Qigong

With Master Mingtong Gu

Open your Heart, release stress, improve your resilience...

Love is the Last Word

By Aldous Huxley

Knowledge vs. Understanding and the Antidote to Our Existential Helplessness

Simple Life

By J. Krishnamurti

Simple life does not consist in the mere possession of a few things

Which Untruth to Love?

By Lao Tzu

Fantasy

By Matt Licata

There’s a fantasy that we’re supposed to know what to do with our lives.

A Meditation for Rooting Radically in Self and Place

By Laura Johnson

In these times of layered and intersecting personal and collective traumas...

Rabia al Basri

She was a Sufi mystic who lived in the eighth century

Dark Ages

By Eric Baret

What is dark is the so-called spiritual quest.

The Goddess Parā

By Christian de Vietri

She is the primordial Word, the very essence of the highest reality,

An Ode to Not Meditating

By James Parker

I know, I know: It’s good for you.

The Science of Spiritual Narcissism

By Scott Barry Kaufman

Self-enhancement through spiritual practices can fool some of us into thinking we’re evolving

Gentleness and Great Pain

By NPR

A gunman barricaded himself inside a one-room Amish schoolhouse

How I Became a Madman

By Khalil Gibran

You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus.

Yoga and Emotional Intelligence

By Jonathan Riley

How can Yoga help us to better understand our emotions?

1:15:00 – FREE

Abiding On The Threshold

With Shakti Caterina Maggi

Fear can be a powerful door to unlock previously unreachable energy still stored in our false images

Silence

By Nathalie Delay

Silence is a practice—a discipline or a passion...

Lalla the Yogini

By Mariette Raina

Lalla, Lal Ded in Hindi, Lal Arifa for Muslims, or Lalleshwari in Sanskrit...

1:17:00 – FREE

The Direct Path to Peace and Happiness

A conversation with Rupert Spira, contemplating the Nature of Experience.

22:00 – FREE

Emergence from Within

by Anjula Ram. One woman's journey of seeking freedom and happiness.

43:00 – FREE

Life During COVID and Beyond

With Deepak Chopra

Deepak brings multifaceted perspectives and reflections to the current situation.

Love v. Friendship

By Eric Baret

Love, as it is usually understood, is an absence of friendship.

Nothing But Images

By J. Krishnamurti

Total silence in which there is neither the observer nor the thing observed is the highest form of a religious mind.

Tao Te Ching

By Stephen Mitchell (translator)

There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born.

47:00 – FREE

Nowhere to Go

With Peter Russell

Now, more than ever, our spiritual practice becomes essential.

The Gate of Heaven Is Everywhere

By Fred Bahnson

Among the contemplatives

Mindfulness

By Peter Taylor

Mindfulness may seem like a difficult practice

51:00 – FREE

Truth Seeking, Science and Pandemic

With Francis Lucille

Francis answers Jeanric's questions in this touching interview

53:00 – FREE

Nothing to Change

With Éric Baret

Eric discusses the current pandemic and many other themes at Wisdom in Times of Crisis

48:00 – FREE

The Soul of Transformation

With Michael Meade

Michael Meade speaks so beautifully about the role of "descent" in any spiritual journey.

1:19:00 – FREE

The Roots of Hope Run Deep

With Cynthia Bourgeault

Timeless Wisdom to Guide a Perilous Passage

Falling Open in a World Falling Apart

By Amoda Maa

An excerpt from her latest book

42:00 – FREE

Facing Death, Breath by Breath

With David Cates

When we avoid rooting in our dying bodies, spirituality grows spindly and bears no real fruit.

1:35:00 – FREE

Do We Choose our Thoughts? SAND18 US

With Francis Lucille

Francis answers questions from the audience at SAND18US

Searching for the Friend

By Lalla

I wearied myself searching for the friend with efforts beyond my strength

59:00 – FREE

Our Minds are Filters - SAND19 US

With Rupert Spira

Rupert Spira has a conversation with the audience at SAND19 US

You Can't Do Meditation

By Eric Baret

Meditation is what you are when you stop pretending to be

36:00 – FREE

Heart to Heart - SAND19 US

With Pamela Wilson

Pamela Wilson has a conversation with the audience at SAND19 US

Love, Beyond Death

By Jerry Diamanti

When I look at someone I don’t see him alone

36:00 – FREE

What Gives Form to Consciousness - SAND19 US

With Orland Bishop

Orland Bishop has a conversation with a small group at SAND19 US.

Why is There a Fear of Death?

By J. Krishnamurti

When we cling to continuity, there is the fear of death.

56:00 – FREE

Where do Mathematics Live? - SAND19 US

With Francis Lucille

Francis Lucille's dialogue with the audience at SAND19 US

It's Always the First Time

By Eric Baret

Life is too intense to anticipate

How Art Thou Not Real?

By Dan McKenzie

Let me count the ways...

1:07:00 – FREE

It's Not Enough to Discover What You Are Not - SAND18 US

With Rupert Spira

Rupert Spira in conversation

Complaining is Polluting

By Eric Baret

All dictators are thinking people.

43:00 – FREE

Shekhinah is Back from Exile

With Mirabai Starr

The wisdom of the feminine in Judaism

26:00 – FREE

Extraordinary Dreams and the Non-dual Spaces of the Mind

With Fariba Bogzaran

Among different categories of dreams, there are extraordinary experiences that are life-changing.

42:00 – FREE

Why Gurus Fall from Grace - SAND19 US

With Craig Holliday

The Necessity of Shadow Work on the Path

Should We Be Planting Trees?

By Eric Baret

First priority is to stop being at war with yourself.

Waking up — A Beginner's Guide

By William Waters

Just an old man who has benefited from the teachings of many

53:00 – FREE

There is Nothing to Change

With Éric Baret

Eric discusses the current pandemic and our overreaction to it...

41:00 – FREE

Knowledge and Levels of Consciousness - SAND19 US

With Rick Archer

Knowledge is Different in Different Levels of Consciousness

What is Intensity?

By Eric Baret

Intensity is to be open to facts, without any comment

41:00 – FREE

That Which Cannot Be Divided - SAND19 US

With Dorothy Hunt

Love is the refusal to separate —Nisargadatta Maharaj

25:00 – FREE

The Dance of Consciousness and World

With Shantena Augusto Sabbadini

Our primary evidence, our only certainty is consciousness.

21:00 – FREE

Entering the Gateless Gate

With Stephan Bodian

A Journey through the Stages of Spiritual Awakening

31:00 – FREE

What Is The Therapeutic Potential of Psychedelics?

With Tomás Páleníček

Is there still something we can learn from the traditional use of psychedelic medicines?

Yoga Does Not Lead to Shiva

By Eric Baret

Yoga does not bring understanding, but understanding may bring you to yoga.

20:00 – FREE

Who Am I? What Is My Real Nature?

With Billy Doyle

We are consciousness, and awareness, and yet we identify with an object in awareness

The Waters of Renewal

By Michael Meade

All meaningful change requires a genuine surrender.