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Awakening through the Breath

Jeff Carreira February 5, 2022 Awakening, Meditation, Spiritual Teachings & Guided Meditations (Audio) Leave a Comment

Breathing has long been seen as a point of connection with divinity. In fact, the word spirit is derived from the Latin word spiritus which refers to the breath of a god. In his gospel, …

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The Birth of Love and Innocence

Jeff Carreira December 24, 2021 Awakening, Meditation, Spiritual Teachings & Guided Meditations (Audio) 1 Comment

The story of Christmas is the story of a birth that occurred in the middle of a dark and silent night, and promised to bring peace and joy to the world. In that story I …

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Teaching and Meditation

How Luminous Absorption Can Change the World

Jeff Carreira November 14, 2021 Awakening, Meditation, New Paradigm Thinking Leave a Comment

As I see it, the experience of luminous absorption reveals our True Self and the True Nature of existence at the same time. We’ve been taught that we live in a reality of three-dimensional space …

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Unleashing our Potential for Spiritual Creativity

Jeff Carreira June 28, 2021 Awakening, Meditation Leave a Comment

As a spiritual teacher, what I teach is constantly evolving. As I continue to explore, learn, and grow, what I teach reflects my current interests and discoveries. For the past few years I’ve been fascinated …

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Practicing The Art of Creative Illumination

Jeff Carreira June 6, 2021 Awakening, Meditation Leave a Comment

How do you meditate? Close your eyes and surrender. ~ Rumi For a long time I have talked and written about how the practice of meditation occurs in two distinct stages, but until now I …

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Spiritual Attunement and Collective Awakening

Jeff Carreira May 27, 2021 Awakening, Meditation Leave a Comment

In the enlightenment tradition of Hinduism, the notion of transmission or shakti pat often plays a prominent role. Within that tradition, a teacher or guru is often seen as possessing access to awakening energy that …

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Spiritual Practice, Spiritual Freedom, and Spiritual Illumination

Jeff Carreira May 18, 2021 Awakening, Meditation Leave a Comment

Part 1: The Art of Conscious Contentment I teach a form of meditation that I call The Art of Conscious Contentment and that practice offers a powerful path to spiritual awakening. In this essay, you’ll …

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The Art of Meditating without Meditating: Breaking the Habit of Isolation

Jeff Carreira May 4, 2021 Awakening, Meditation Leave a Comment

I feel that the meditation I teach is perfect for beginners even though it’s often seen as an advanced practice. The reason I believe it’s perfect for beginners is because it takes us straight to …

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We are Cosmic Beings

Jeff Carreira April 6, 2021 Awakening, Meditation Leave a Comment

Today I want to share something with you. It’s the kind of thing that is true of so many of us, and yet so few of us feel free to say it. I came into …

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Living in Flow

Jeff Carreira January 5, 2021 Awakening, Meditation Leave a Comment

Excerpted from: The Miracle of Self Realization: Reflections on the teachings of Ramana Maharshi by Jeff Carreira. ~ Ramana tells a story, in The Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharshi, about a boy who is fast …

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Experiencing Transcendent Freedom in Meditation

Jeff Carreira November 30, 2020 Awakening, Meditation Leave a Comment

As a meditation practitioner and teacher, I have experienced myself, and witnessed others experience, the miracle of radical liberation countless times. There are many forms of meditation designed for a variety of purposes. The form …

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The Hazy Sunshine of an Illuminated Mind

Jeff Carreira May 10, 2020 Awakening, Meditation Leave a Comment

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious …

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The Healing Power of Deep Meditation

Jeff Carreira April 25, 2020 Awakening, Meditation Leave a Comment

We are living through a crisis unprecedented in our lifetimes. As a dangerous virus moves mercilessly through our cities and towns we stay indoors and isolate to protect ourselves and each other. At the same …

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Deep Meditation and The Passion of an Artist of Possibility

Jeff Carreira February 29, 2020 Awakening, Creative Expression, Meditation Leave a Comment

When your meditation becomes deep and steady what you find is that you flicker in and out of remembering that you are meditating. You will be meditating for a while, deliberately following the instructions, and then you will remember that you are meditating and realize that you had forgotten what you were doing for a few minutes.

What’s So Powerful about a Silent Retreat?

Jeff Carreira February 1, 2020 Awakening, Meditation Leave a Comment

I recently returned from leading a 10-day silent meditation retreat in Sri Lanka. It was a powerful retreat for me as well as the others who were there. My experience is that silent retreats include …

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Beyond the Myth of Awakening

Jeff Carreira December 29, 2019 Awakening, Meditation Leave a Comment

The myth of awakening refers to any belief we hold about there being something called awakening that’s going to happen in the future. The way we go beyond the myth of awakening is by accepting …

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The Immediacy Of Meditation

Jeff Carreira December 1, 2019 Awakening, Meditation Leave a Comment

There is a magic to the practice of meditation that many practitioners never discover because we only find it when we eliminate time from the equation. You can call this the discovery of radical immediacy …

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Spiritual Freedom, Living Fulfillment and Penetrating Clarity

Jeff Carreira August 20, 2019 Awakening, Meditation Leave a Comment

My teachings can be seen as containing two essential aspects. You could call these spiritual freedom and living fulfilment. All three clips below were recorded during his 2019 Summer retreat and the first two clips capture the essence of his teaching in clear and succinct language.

What to do if you fall asleep in Meditation

Jeff Carreira April 19, 2019 Meditation 1 Comment

Today I’m writing about a topic that is a challenge for many meditators. It’s the question of what do we do about sleep in meditation. Any of us who meditate have experienced meditations where we …

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The Mysterious Power of Silence, Stillness and Rest

Jeff Carreira February 5, 2019 Awakening, Meditation 2 Comments

I went into my recent retreat in Sri Lanka with incredibly high expectations for myself and for the group of ten people that would be joining me on this adventure. It felt like everything was …

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