Ancient wisdom for a modern world, featuring:
1) dharma talks; and
2) guided meditations,
both by yours truly.
- Dharma Talk – Letting Life BreatheA resource to be used for meditation, reflection, or while working away on something. Recorded in Feb 2022. From my adventure for two weeks solo-backpacking around The Caribbean Coast of… Read more: Dharma Talk – Letting Life Breathe
- Soundscape – Morning Waves of Playa ChiquitaI’m walking along Playa Chiquita for the first time in the morning, mesmerized by its rhythm. A resource to be used for meditation, reflection, or while working away on something.… Read more: Soundscape – Morning Waves of Playa Chiquita
- Dharma Talk – What Expectation are you Clinging To?Recorded in Feb 2022. From my adventure for two weeks solo-backpacking around The Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica.
- Soundscape – Bike Home Thru the JungleI’m biking back home during sunset, to my hostel in Manzanillo from Playa Punta Uva and the howler monkeys are doing their thang. A resource to be used for meditation,… Read more: Soundscape – Bike Home Thru the Jungle
- Soundscape – 5:30am from the Puerto Viejo GuesthouseI recorded this at 5:30am from my guesthouse in Puerto Viejo town. The animals were going crazy — no need for an alarm this whole trip. What caught my ear… Read more: Soundscape – 5:30am from the Puerto Viejo Guesthouse
- Meditation 7 – Intro to MettaAn introduction to Metta (loving-kindness) meditation.
- Meditation 6 – We Cannot Control The SoundsWe cannot control the origin or disappearance of sounds.
- Meditation 5 – Awareness of HearingAn intro to using our sense of hearing as an object of meditation.
- Dharma Talk – The “P” in “Pandemic” stands for PreparationThe pandemic was a new, exciting change at one point very early on. The possibilities were unique and refreshing, despite the terribleness that came along with COVID-19. Many of us,… Read more: Dharma Talk – The “P” in “Pandemic” stands for Preparation
- Meditation 4 – Practicing Our PracticeRealizing you’re lost in thought is the true goal of meditation, if there Here, we practice what we’ve learned in the past few sessions on the awareness of breathing.
- Meditation 3 – ReprogrammingRealizing you’re lost in thought is the true goal of meditation, if there is any. Catching yourself thinking about something is the act that creates options for you in your… Read more: Meditation 3 – Reprogramming
- Meditation 2 – Ripples in a PondAwareness of and stretching out the inhalation and exhalation.
- Dharma Talk – New Year, Same PossibilitiesThe difference between a wish and a goal How every moment holds a world of possibilities Radical accountability
- Dharma Talk – The Gas Station AttendantTreating strangers as loved ones is something we have heard before. But treating loved ones as strangers, such as a gas attendant, is less common yet the same equation. Gas… Read more: Dharma Talk – The Gas Station Attendant
- Dharma Talk – Are You Running Away?There are 2 phases for creating stillness examined in this dharma talk. Phase 1: acknowledge you’re running; Phase 2: find out what you’re running from. Music in background: An Opening… Read more: Dharma Talk – Are You Running Away?
- Meditation 1 – Basic BreathAwareness of breathing.
- Welcome to a New IterationThis trailer is for season 4 of the Modern Monk.ey podcast, which has seen podcast name and concept changes over the last 4 seasons, but that’s what seasons (more broadly… Read more: Welcome to a New Iteration
- Essay #4 – Ebb & Flow of EnergyIt was during two periods of time this year that I was extremely jealous of the Energizer Bunny. Pandemic summers have treated me very well, but to get there we… Read more: Essay #4 – Ebb & Flow of Energy
- Essay #3 – Understanding FaithFaith. A word that has been commonly used for as long as I’ve been alive, but a concept that I nor others around me seem to have ever understood enough… Read more: Essay #3 – Understanding Faith
- Essay #2 – The Fruits of PracticeWe always read about befriending the ego, but what about the ego befriending awareness? When we say, “befriending the ego,” it is implied that our true self / buddha nature… Read more: Essay #2 – The Fruits of Practice
- Essay #1 – Appreciating SufferingAppreciate the suffering. This does not mean to enjoy it and to seek it our, or to crave more of it in a self-punishing way. By appreciating the perceived tarnished… Read more: Essay #1 – Appreciating Suffering
- Conversation #3—Corporate Life Rooted in Gratitude—Mark RadhakrishnanThe lengthiness of this episode is required to get into some vulnerable and authentic moments in Mark’s life. Mark Radhakrishnan is a true example of a Canadian immigrant success story.… Read more: Conversation #3—Corporate Life Rooted in Gratitude—Mark Radhakrishnan
- Conversation #2—Everybody Needs a Tribe—Mike Shaheenhaving a tribe is integral to success community work is about mutual benefit, not charity intentionally picking a less demanding job to fuel one’s passion Mike Shaheen is the founder… Read more: Conversation #2—Everybody Needs a Tribe—Mike Shaheen
- Conversation #1—Circle of Shared Prosperity—Jessie Duffy– “harmony is the ideal state”– “shared prosperity” vs. charity– “breaking up with independence” Jessie Duffy is the owner and operator of Arlington Five Coffeehouse (Instagram), which I regard as… Read more: Conversation #1—Circle of Shared Prosperity—Jessie Duffy
- Welcome to Being Aathentik with AatikWelcome to Being Aathentik with Aatik. A podcast where I, Aatik, will be exploring the less-discussed aspects of success, within the lives of those that are masters at their given… Read more: Welcome to Being Aathentik with Aatik