All posts by : Jason Gregory

In this podcast, we will explain why Western culture is destroying the world. Since the advent of social media, Western influence has reached the most distant parts of the world with its own culture and ways of thinking. Unintentionally, or in some cases maybe intentionally, Western culture undermines other cultures and reduces cultural diversity because innocent people from far off distant lands slowly begin to dance to the beat of one loud Western drum. This is essentially a covert monopoly on culture that is taking place and most are ignorant. The West went from imperialism to the covert method of intellectual imperialism, where all cultures are evaluated and dissected through the prism of Western thinking, destroying the diversity that makes the world beautiful. How is this all happening? Find out!

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In this podcast, we will explain how thoughts create the ego and what are the nature of thoughts. Thoughts and the process of thinking has been an area the East has focused on for thousands of years. In the modern world, we are under the impression that thoughts are linked in a series creating this continuity of the person we think we are. What causes this linkage? Is it a natural function of the mind or just a habit we are caught in? The great spiritual traditions of the East explain why thoughts themselves are not linked and this wisdom uncovers the nature of the mind itself and its true essence and function. Get ready to dive deep.

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The great Eastern spiritual traditions reiterate numerous times through hundreds of texts that only consciousness exists and everything else, including yourself, is an illusion. This conflicts with our modern sensibilities because this ancient knowledge suggests that the world is neither real or unreal, but something entirely different. In this episode of The Sacred Word, I will explore one of the most radical nondualist texts, the Yoga Vasistha. This one text will challenge your way of thinking and explains thoroughly how the world is only one undifferentiated consciousness, the Absolute Brahman.

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In this episode of Enlightenment Today, I will explain how a spiritual master can enlighten you with just one look. In the East there is the knowledge of Darshan, a practice of transmission from Guru to disciple, which bestows blessings and merit upon an individual. This auspicious sight of the spiritual master is believed to have the power to enlighten anyone with just a simple gaze. How is it possible to embody such power? And how does this process of Darshan actually happen? Find out!

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In this podcast, we will dissect chapter five of the Tao Te Ching to give you ultimate clarity on the meaning of the chapter. This is the fifth episode of the 81 Meditations of the Tao Te Ching, a series where we will explore each chapter of the Tao Te Ching. In chapter five, Lao-tzu explains how both nature and a sage view reality impartially. The second part of this chapter dives deep into the concept that the within empty space is the power of Tao. The more we access it, the more we produce. Also, the last part of the chapter refers to the excessive use of words and a return to the center. But what does it mean by “words”? Some new age translations make Westerners believe that it is referring to how it is impossible to speak about the Tao, which is a false understanding and the result of bad translations. The translation of words in this chapter has a dual use and is important for understanding what it means to return to the center.

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In the West there is an emphasis on purpose and the need for purpose to fulfill our so-called empty lives. But this perspective is diametrically opposed to the essential teaching of wu-wei in Taoism. In the Tao Te Ching and the Zhuangzi there is a focus on aimlessness as a method for creating healthy and sane individuals. Purpose, on the other hand, is thought of as a blind alley that can lead to all sorts of psychological problems from the Taoist perspective. In this episode of Ask Jason, I will answer a few questions about whether or not purpose can fit into the art of wu-wei (effortless living/non-doing/non-interference) and whether or not we should have a goal or goals in life and on the spiritual path.

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In this podcast, we will explain the story of Hundun in the Zhuangzi, the famous Taoist text. This story concludes the inner chapters of the Zhuangzi and is one of the most revealing stories about what it means to be following the essential Taoist teaching of wu-wei (non-doing/effortless action/noninterference). The story of Hundun can be read in three ways, exposing social conformity and identity as obstacles to living wu-wei on our path to immortality.

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On February 11, I decided to temporarily pause my life and I went on a 21 day internet fast. That’s right, 21 days with no internet, a return to a life I once lived before the internet. In this video, I will take you through the whole process and what essentially happened to me when I stopped engaging with the online world.

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In this podcast, we will explain when the Kali Yuga began and when it will end. The first evidence of the Yugas is found in the ancient Hindu scriptures of the Puranas, written by the great sage Vyasa. The Puranas contain a vast body of knowledge, including the time cycles of the universe known as the Yugas. In the modern day, a lot of people are eager to establish their own version of the Yugas and their own opinion of what Yuga we are currently in. But we will explore the actual knowledge in the Puranas that majority of Hindus follow and is the original system of the Yugas. Are we in the Kali Yuga? If so, when will it end? Find out!

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