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Meditation Without A Method
Friday, 20 December 2024, 11:40 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
There is no method to meditation. Methods and systems are fabrications of thought, and thought cannot be used to quiet psychological thought without dulling the brain. One simply begins with the intent to listen, and delight in the senses. More >>
Exploring Our Place In The Universe
Thursday, 12 December 2024, 9:25 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Meditation is the spontaneous stillness of thought in all-inclusive, choiceless and undirected attention. Only when the brain is completely quiet can it contact the infinite silence and creative emptiness of Mind. More >>
Waking From The Nightmare
Friday, 6 December 2024, 12:55 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Awakening is difficult, requiring diligent awareness and questioning, which is why the vast majority of people still adapt to their culture, however sick it is. More >>
A Meditation On Noise And Silence
Friday, 29 November 2024, 1:11 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Being at one with cosmic silence is the highest capacity of the human being. To the extent that we only hear the noise of man however, outwardly and inwardly, we are incapable of silent being. More >>
Perception, Conception And Beauty
Friday, 22 November 2024, 12:24 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As we get older the perception of beauty becomes more difficult because memories & experiences fill the mind, leaving less & less space for seeing with innocence, as a child sees. It requires diligence to retain a purity of perception, though the ... More >>
What Being “Inward Looking” Really Means
Friday, 15 November 2024, 1:32 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
As the saying goes, “We have met the enemy, and they are us.” Evil forces exist within, not without, so they must first be faced and met inwardly before the rotten structures of society can be remedied outwardly. More >>
Self-knowing Is The Gateway To Liberation And Transmutation
Wednesday, 13 November 2024, 10:49 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
A revolution in consciousness may happen in the near future, or take hundreds of years, but it is essential if humanity is to survive and live in basic harmony with the earth and universe. More >>
The Triumph Of The Swill
Thursday, 7 November 2024, 12:25 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Besides echoing Trump’s “Fight, Fight, Fight” attitude, a main theme of the Harris campaign, a line Kamala repeated ad nauseum, as Presidents Biden and Obama also repeated ad nauseum, was “This is not who we are.” More >>
Religious Experiencing Without Religion
Friday, 1 November 2024, 10:30 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Yet religions would not exist without the intermediation of text and tradition, as well as some form of priestly class. Even Buddhists have their own priests and nuns. Therefore religions impede, if not deny, the very experiencing of sacredness that ... More >>
Stepping Into The Vacuum, Or Just Stepping Into It?
Monday, 28 October 2024, 11:54 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
At the nadir of man, thinking and feeling human beings with genuinely global worldviews matter now more than ever, and must step into the vacuum. More >>
Hanging In The Balance
Friday, 25 October 2024, 10:26 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Trump’s re-election after Biden interregnum will certainly be the end of America as the world has known it, and with it US-made international order. The question is, what will take its place - more fragmentation, disorder and authoritarianism, ... More >>
Beethoven’s 7th And Conducting Beauty Beyond The Mind Of Man
Friday, 18 October 2024, 12:28 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
His performance (a word at once too small and too big for Kleiber) is an expression of not only his joy, but also an ineffable bliss flowing through him, giving literal meaning to the phrase “music of the spheres.” More >>
Radical Change Requires Going To The Root
Monday, 14 October 2024, 1:11 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
AI be damned. Realising our true potential is not only our birthright as human beings; it has become essential to our survival as an aspiring intelligent species. More >>
Animals Don’t Have Complicated Relationships With Death
Wednesday, 9 October 2024, 11:56 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It’s no longer necessary or fitting to “have all these symbolic representations of death.” We can directly perceive the actuality of death, without fear and blind cultural immersion. And there is tremendous freedom doing so. More >>
Why Trump Could Become POTUS Again
Thursday, 3 October 2024, 3:13 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It may be wishful thinking, but I don’t feel the outcome has been metaphysically determined, as it was with Bush before the 2000 election and Trump in 2016. More >>
We Cannot Return And Recover As Humans; We Can Only Transcend As Human Beings
Tuesday, 1 October 2024, 1:42 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
AI cannot be more intelligent than humans are, and people who believe it will save us without radically changing ourselves are deluding themselves. More >>
Conditioning Is Not A Given
Friday, 27 September 2024, 11:42 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
Self-knowing parents and teachers deepening in insight will see how to help children intelligently navigate society, in which the old strictures and structures have broken down, replaced by toxic social media. More >>
Sorry Secretary-General Guterres, Multilateralism Is A Pipe Dream
Wednesday, 25 September 2024, 11:04 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The international order is dead, and the ideal of multilateralism is a pipe dream. The old institutions like the UN can still serve humanity, but only if they are superseded by enough human beings who have ended tribalism/nationalism within themselves. More >>
Concerning Death, Hell And Illumination
Monday, 23 September 2024, 10:58 am | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
It is deeply mistaken to gloss over evil with fey love, within or without. It’s only by facing and continuously learning from the darkness within us that we dissolve it, and thereby do our part to end the rule of evil in the world. More >>
An Attack On The Whole Of Humanity
Saturday, 21 September 2024, 1:15 pm | Martin LeFevre - Meditations
The insertion of explosives in thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies is one of the most evil acts ever perpetrated by a state in the history of nations. So the pervasiveness of the evil pertains not just to the Lebanese, much less demonized Hezbollah, but ... More >>
