Natural Meditation Podcast

What you’re looking for, is what is doing the looking. That which sees and looks is what is looked for! And that can’t be found. Because it’s not been lost. It’s been looking all along. At the deepest level, you’re holding the answer you’ve been looking for. The answer is in your hands. It’s in your own being. You ARE what you’re looking for. You ARE What you’ve always longed for.

Your physical posture affects your mental state. If you assume a posture that is too relaxed, chances are that your meditation will stray into drowsiness. Too rigid and tense a posture, on the other hand, might lead to mental agitation. Thus it is appropriate to take a balanced posture that is neither too tight nor too loose. Stephan Pende points to the keys of a healthy posture: alignment, relaxation and resilience.

All of us are caught up in addictive patterns. Stephan Pende presents how meditation can release us from the grip of negative habits and addictions that block a full and meaningful life. We can learn how to undo our habits and addictions and find true contentment. Stephan Pende also leads two meditations to develop familiarity with states of mind that can release us from addictive patterns.

All of us are caught up in addictive patterns. Stephan Pende presents how meditation can release us from the grip of negative habits and addictions that block a full and meaningful life. We can learn how to undo our habits and addictions and find true contentment. Stephan Pende also leads two meditations to develop familiarity with states of mind that can release us from addictive patterns.

Stephan Pende explains and guides a meditation on how to recognize and rest as awareness or what sometimes is called the nature of your mind.

Mindfulness supports you in your capacity to be present in moments of emotional turmoil, neither suppressing the feelings nor getting lost in them. Stephan Pende shares methods on how to be in an emotional tsunami.

Awakening begins by discovering the awareness which is already free, pure, connected and in the nature of love. It is discovering the natural peace, the deep stillness which is available to us in any moment regardless if we feel good or bad. Can you find the eye in the storm? Rest right there.

There is a simple, obvious truth: there is no such entity as “me”. That is the main insight in all paths of liberation. There is no separate, solid entity called "me" or "self" anywhere to be found. The sense that there is something like that is the root cause for all suffering. Because of this mistake you feel you live in a prison, spending your life protecting and trying to make happy something that was never there to begin with. Seeing through this illusion is simple and straightforward.

Former monk Stephan Pende leads a meditation on cultivating a loving gaze and explains how to find peace in the midst of intense experience. He explores how to work with the subconscious gossip, which is obstructing a direct relationship with our experience.

This guided meditation is an invitation for you to experience deep relaxation, to find peace in doing nothing. Just tune in to the incredible feeling of stillness within you. Within the movements of your thoughts, there is a still point. A point that is completely still and which has nothing to do with whatever is happening around you. Becoming aware of this ever present peace is the ultimate medicine.

Gratefulness is a felt sense of wonder, thankfulness, and appreciation for life. Emerging research has recently started to draw attention to its multiple benefits. People who are grateful have been found to be relatively happier, more energetic, and more hopeful and to report experiencing more frequent positive emotions. Stephan Pende guides you into a gratefulness meditation using a simple mantra.

It is painful to exclude a person from your heart. In this meditation you are invited to soften that pain and see a difficult person in a different way. It might change the way you relate to that person as well.

So who are you? You are not objects out there, you are not feelings, you are not thoughts - you are effortlessly aware of all those, so you are not those. Who or what are you? You have feelings, but you are not those feelings. Who are you? But then people usually make a big mistake. They think that if they rest in the Witness, they are going to see something or feel something - something really neat and special. But you won't see anything. If you see something, that is just another object - another feeling, another thought, another sensation, another image. But those are all objects; those are what you are not.

Tonglen (giving and taking) is a method for connecting with suffering — ours and that which is all around us — everywhere we go. It is a method for overcoming fear of suffering and for dissolving the tightness of our heart. Primarily it is a method for awakening the compassion that is inherent in all of us. We begin to feel love both for ourselves and others and also we begin to take care of ourselves and others. It awakens our compassion and it also introduces us to a far larger view of reality.

Making death your friend to awake to your life. Contemplating death is a powerful pointer to what is really important. Celebrate your life by remembering death.

Allowing is effortless, but it takes effort to not allow this moment. For this moment is already present, already perfectly what it is. In the vastness of your own heart even resistance is allowed.

A guided meditation following a traditional Sadhana of the Buddha of Compassion.

How does your meditation practice benefit your relationships? Stephan Pende explores how the qualities you cultivate in meditation like equanimity, stability and self-kindness support you in your relationships.

Former Buddhist monk Stephan Pende explores a liberating way to relate to our fears: not as something to try to get rid of or cast out, but as something we become very intimate with. In doing so we come to find that the journey of knowing fear is in fact the journey of courage. From this wisdom, we learn to embrace the fullness of our experience in life.

Being in a place in which you can rest and see more clearly, which holds and contains everything arising for you in the present. From here, it is possible to deconstruct, re-contextualize and reframe our original fear-based feelings and reactions, honoring and embracing them without being their victims.