Guided Meditations: Evoking the Divine Ground of Your Being

by Adyashanti

Essential Insights and Guidance to Deepen Your Meditation Practice

Beneath all our bustling thoughts and the distracting dramas of the world, an ever-present stillness beckons us to our true home. "Meditation is a tool for returning to our essential nature," says Adyashanti. With Guided Meditations, this groundbreaking spiritual teacher offers four immersive audio sessions of meditations created to enrich your practice and help you become a more open, loving, and benevolent presence in the world. Join him as he

• Three foundational meditations for inner peace and stillness
• Meditations for transforming volatile emotions and embodying the heart of compassion
• "Evocation" practices for awakening to the divine ground of your being that is always present and available
• The best attitude for meditation, myths about concentration and self-control, and expanding your practice into each moment

Guided Meditations is intended to be a constant companion that you return to time and again on your spiritual journey. "As we grow, our motivations for meditating evolve," says Adyashanti. "Yet we can always become wiser, more loving, and more deeply connected to who we truly are."

Genres: Spirituality, Nonfiction, Meditation

5 pages, Audio CD

First published October 1, 2015

About the author

Adyashanti is an American spiritual teacher from the San Francisco Bay Area who gives regular satsangs in the United States and also teaches abroad. He is the author of several books, CDs and DVDs and is the founder of Open Gate Sangha, Inc. a nonprofit organization that supports, and makes available, his teachings.

Reviews

[Dean Paradiso · Rating 3 out of 5]

This audio contains around 8 or so guided meditations on different themes related to the overall topic of nondual awakening, enlightenment etc. They generally follow Adyashanti's teaching style and his ideas on what those concepts mean (e.g. enlightenment etc). His teaching is closer to modern Advaita, rather than Zen (his historical background). Overall, I was slightly disappointed, since I found most of the 'guided meditations' to be more like Adyashanti just talking softly with generalised advice and teachings (not strictly directed). I liked the "I" presence meditation, and find this to be the most helpful. The first meditation is a Foundation Meditation developing stillness and focus via the breath. Then the "I" feeling meditation. Then "Resting in the conscious ground of awareness", which is an awareness meditation. Then "Embodying Redemptive Love", and some other awareness meditations. I feel that he has done better with his older meditation audio recordings, such as True Meditation, which is more concise and simpler. I can't recall much content when looking back, in this audio, and it wasn't really suitable to play with a meditation group either, unless people don't mind sitting and chilling out to Adyashanti's voice giving general advice on meditation and what it's not, and how meditation fits with other aspects in life such as love, spirituality, etc. etc.
The awareness meditations are worth the package, along with the "I" feeling meditation. For those interested in psychology and emotions, some of the other meditations may be of value.

[korally · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don’t like that much guided meditations but the ones from this book are quite nice. I will definitely listen to them again.

[Robert Meaney]

excellent

[Maj Johansen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book on a spiritual life.

[Ant · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some great information on the approach to meditation followed by guided meditations I have been returning to. I've added the principle describe here to my practice. A very helpful book, really glad I chose it.