My Meditation Podcast

Upon the existence or not existence of the Self.

Asian traditions follows, without exceptions, the Three Body Problem path, which is, taming the Body to access the Energy in order to see the nature of the Mind. Some of the most modern meditation methods fails to see this correlation, developing de-stressing practices that are not, and should not be deemed as, traditional meditation practices.

The Three-Body Problem is a well known sci-fi novel by the Chinese author Liu Cixin, recently renderer by a Netflix series. In the Chinese Internal Arts we traditionally recognize three main energetic centers located in or correlated to the physical body: from physical energy to psychic energy, the internal journey may be obscure and detailed at the same time.Outside a traditional path only lies delusion, exacly where many practitioner find themselves in modern Yoga or Meditation approaches. When you see a traditional map, you understand why that's the case.

Meditation is not a therapy for the Self, the Ego is not the Nature of Mind, what was going on in your childhood is of no interest for your practice, and practice itself is not supposed to generate Love.

The Financial Times has recently launched a new investigative podcast, Untold, and the first serie is about the damages that intensive meditation practice can bring: "⁠The Retreat⁠".This episode encourages you to listen to The Retreat podcast and learn how intensive meditation can damage you psyche.Resources to help people who struggle with meditation's damages:⁠https://www.cheetahhouse.org/⁠⁠https://miguelfarias.co.uk/

In our societies "Wellness" has become a key marketing word, and it is supposed to be one of the main objectives of the Internal Practice. Is it truly so?

Meditation has been, along with other East Asian traditions, acquired in the modern mega-culture and shaped it along with terms as "Yoga", "Zen" and "Kung-fu". But which are the roots of the ancient meditative traditions, how have they developed till today, and how big a pie of this cake may we realistically hope to eat up?

This is a new podcast that spins off from "The Taichi & Qigong Podcast". Here you find some episodes related to Meditation.Enjoy!