Wisdom of the Masters
Samaneri Jayasara
These podcasts are designed to provide listeners with teachings from great spiritual Masters & to create a meditative mood so that the meaning can go deep & enter your heart.
These podcasts are not monetized & are purely for educational & spiritual purposes.
If you enjoy & benefit from these recordings you are welcome to contribute to the daily running costs of our hermitage to support the nuns. Donations/gifts for this purpose can be made via PayPal: https://paypal.me/VivekaHermitage or WISE: wise.com/pay/me/margarets448
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These podcasts are not monetized & are purely for educational & spiritual purposes.
If you enjoy & benefit from these recordings you are welcome to contribute to the daily running costs of our hermitage to support the nuns. Donations/gifts for this purpose can be made via PayPal: https://paypal.me/VivekaHermitage or WISE: wise.com/pay/me/margarets448
vivekahermitage.com
www.youtube.com/c/SamaneriJayasara/featured
Episodes
Mentioned books
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Oct 13, 2026 • 28min
Ganga Maa ~ The Truth is in the Heart ~ Advaita
Ganga Maa, a contemporary Advaita teacher in Tiruvannamalai, shares the simplicity of non-dual truth. She explores pure existence beyond concepts, action without mental interference, and devotion to Ramana Maharshi and Arunachala without separation. The conversation also examines ego’s claim over spiritual experiences, realisation beyond fleeting states, and abiding in the Self through peace and silence.
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Oct 7, 2026 • 15min
Longchenpa ~ The Enlightened Mind ~ Dzogchen
Explore Longchenpa’s Dzogchen teachings on the mind’s natural, uncontrived state. The reading considers resting in emptiness, releasing attachment to appearances, and recognizing awareness beyond thought. It journeys through the spacious nature of mind, experience as a magical display, the universal ground, and the freedom of having nothing to remove or add.
Sep 28, 2026 • 30min
Simone Weil ~ Decreating Ourselves ~ (from Gravity and Grace)
Selected passages explore Simone Weil’s radical vision of “decreation”: surrendering the ego, accepting humility and nonexistence, and making space for divine love. The reading considers affliction, compassion, pain, renunciation, grace, and the tension between appearance and reality, inviting listeners toward a deeper spiritual freedom through self-emptying.
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Sep 22, 2026 • 11min
Hazrat Inayat Khan ~ Music of the Absolute ~ Sufi Mystics
Explore Hazrat Inayat Khan’s vision of life as music: nature, human relationships, voice, thought, and feeling all expressing an underlying harmony. Discover how Sufi practice cultivates attentive listening, careful speech, and inner peace, leading toward the soul’s return to the eternal music of the Absolute.
Sep 15, 2026 • 25min
Resting the Mind ~ Samaneri Jayasara
A gentle meditation on resting in natural awareness without force, control, or inner struggle. Explore how thoughts, emotions, sensations, body tension, and breath can soften and dissolve on their own. The practice invites an open, spacious sense of peace that remains available while moving through everyday life.
Sep 4, 2026 • 14min
The Fire Sermon ~ Teachings of the Buddha
A powerful Buddhist discourse explores the six senses as fires fueled by greed, hatred, delusion, suffering, and mortality. The reading traces a path from recognizing the burning nature of sensory experience to disillusionment, dispassion, and liberation. It culminates in the freedom found through letting go of attachment and clinging.
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Aug 29, 2026 • 17min
The Mandukya Upanishad ~ Advaita Vedanta
A contemplative reading of the Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣhad exploring OM as the symbol of Absolute Reality. Short verses and classical commentary unpack the three states of waking, dreaming and deep sleep. Attention turns to Turiya, the indescribable fourth state that underlies all experience. The talk maps the sounds A, U, M to consciousness and points toward silent awareness beyond concepts.
Aug 21, 2026 • 22min
Max Picard ~ A Meditation on Silence
A contemplative reading about silence as a concrete, living reality rather than mere absence. Reflections on silence restoring wholeness to things and shaping movement and presence. A critique of modern language and profit-driven culture that has orphaned the true word. Meditations on timelessness, solitude, and the sacred value of quiet.
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Aug 11, 2026 • 18min
Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi) ~ The Return ~ Taoism
Readings explore Chuang Tzu’s paradoxical stories about identity, self and the limits of knowledge. Parables like the empty boat expose projection and conflict. Themes include returning to source, childlike perception, letting go of fixed views, and merging with the boundless. Gentle invitations to simplicity, inaction, and inner knowing punctuate the reflections.
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Jun 24, 2026 • 32min
The Path of Immediate Liberation ~ Dzogchen Meditation
Guided Dzogchen practice pointing to recognizing the natural, ever‑present awareness. Simple instructions for resting without effort and noticing how thoughts self‑liberate when seen. Reflections on emptiness and clarity as one and on appearances as expressions of awareness. Practical reminders to relax, recognize distraction as awareness, and return to that recognized nature.
