My new CD: The Wisdom of the Breath

I’m a bit late in mentioning this, but Sounds True has released my latest (double) CD, The Wisdom of the Breath.

Here’s what Sounds True has to say about it:

The answers to the most profound spiritual questions lie within us—but how do we gain access to our deepest wisdom? “Breathing is a gateway to insight,” reveals Scottish-born teacher Bodhipaksa, “and meditation gives us the key.” On The Wisdom of Your Breath, this master teacher guides listeners through breath-centered meditations for opening to the inner core of spiritual awareness we all possess.With these three essential practices, he reveals how the breath can help you:

• Let go of the past and future, and rest in pure presence
• Dissolve the sense of separateness to experience oneness with the world around you
• Embrace the essential impermanence of all life with serenity and joy
• Tap into your own natural wisdom by exploring the breath as a metaphor for living

Whether you’re experimenting with meditation for the first time or have been practicing for years, focusing on the breath is a vital technique for realizing inner peace and clarity. Join this accessible and knowledgeable teacher for three invaluable practices to nourish your spiritual growth with The Wisdom of the Breath.

Sounds True are such good marketers that they can probably sum up the CD better than I can, but the three themes that I cover in the two CDs, in the form of “fireside chat” material and also meditatively, are:

1. The breath can be a tool for realizing that we are interconnected with others. For example, every time you take a breath you inhale on average five or six molecules from the Buddha’s dying breath!
2. We can use the breath to realize that past and future are just ideas, and that there is only this eternally-unfolding present moment.
3. We can also use mindfulness of the breath to remind ourselves that none of our experiences — sensations, thoughts, emotions — is ultimately a part of us. In the end what we are is indefinable.

I also discuss the nature of reality (!) and how our minds relentlessly label, and therefore convince us (falsely) of our separateness from what is around us, because of our tendency to take as absolute our own labeling.

I’m pleased with the content of this audiobook. I hope you find it useful.

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