The Mind Illuminated archive

Progressing on the path.

 Q&A: How do I know I’m really making progress on the path? Master Culadasa discusses how to notice our progress on the path to awakening in our daily lives. — …

Levels after the first nine meditation levels

 Q&A: What happens after the nine stages of meditation? Master Culadasa describes the levels of development after the meditation stages that lead to shamata. Specifically he describes the 7 stages …

What is Free Will?

 This discussion continues from a discussion of Karma. Q&A: What is free will?How does free will fit into the concept of karma? Master Culadasa explains how free will works in …

Will power and achievement.

 Q&A: Olympic athletes achieve tremendous things by apparent sheer force of will. This seems in contrast to the practices that we are learning here. Can you comment on this? Master …

The Awakening Process

 Q&A: How does “awakening” occur? Master Culadasa continues with his discussion of path and insight by describing ways awakening can occur. This leads him to explain more about possible paths …

TCMC 18 March 2010 part 1

TCMC 18 March 2010 Part 2

Stronghold 21 March 2010

How does “Insight” fit into the meditation systems

 Q&A: How does Vipassana fit into the stages of meditation? Master Culadasa explains the path of insight from its beginnings to the ultimate awakening. This is a continuation of the …

Bypassing steps to awakening?

 Q&A: You have just outlined a discreet number of steps in different systems of practice. Can some of these be bypassed? Master Culadasa explains more about the process of awakening. …
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Meditation talks from Culadasa

tmi-archive.com contains talks from Culadasa and is named after his wonderful book.

Audio files are cleaned, and anybody can help organise talks.

This is an early stage project, and any feedback or participation is more then welcome.