Modern Monk.ey: Recent Episodes
Aatik Chopra
Ancient wisdom transmitted to a modern world, featuring 1) dharma talks and 2) guided meditations, both by yours truly.
Recorded in Feb 2022.
From my adventure for two weeks solo-backpacking around The Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica.
I'm walking along Playa Chiquita for the first time in the morning, mesmerized by its rhythm.
A resource to be used for meditation, reflection, or while working away on something.
Recorded in Feb 2022.
From my adventure for two weeks solo-backpacking around The Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica.
A resource to be used for meditation, reflection, or while working away on something.
Recorded in Feb 2022.
From my adventure for two weeks solo-backpacking around The Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica.
I'm biking back home during sunset, to my hostel in Manzanillo from Playa Punta Uva and the howler monkeys are doing their thang.
A resource to be used for meditation, reflection, or while working away on something.
Recorded in Feb 2022.
From my adventure for two weeks solo-backpacking around The Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica.
I recorded this at 5:30am from my guesthouse in Puerto Viejo town. The animals were going crazy -- no need for an alarm this whole trip. What caught my ear were the variety of birds, and how soothing it was to listen to. At the end of the audio, you hear my host and another guest looking for me so that we can start a hike we planned for.
A resource to be used for meditation, reflection, or while working away on something.
Recorded in Feb 2022.
From Season 5, my adventure for two weeks solo-backpacking around The Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica.
An intro to using our sense of hearing as an object of meditation.
aatikchopra.com/meditation5
aatikchopra.com/pandemic-preparation
The pandemic was a new, exciting change at one point very early on. The possibilities were unique and refreshing, despite the terribleness that came along with COVID-19.
Many of us, including myself, have fooled ourselves in thinking that the pandemic was something of the past, forgetting that many of us in Canada are currently in a lockdown just as restricting as almost two years ago.
This may make the pandemic sound like it's never-ending, but I'm here to emphasize quite the opposite -- that the opportunities that the pandemic had (and still has) to offer, are available for a limited time only.
More importantly, however, is the fact that many essential functions of society will be requiring a massive void to be filled once we return to normalcy. This will entail intense energy and enthusiasm from those working in these positions. Before we know it, the pandemic will be over and many of us will be called upon to work harder than ever to fill this void.
This is why I am coining that the "P" in "Pandemic" stands for Preparation. Now is our time to prepare for the aforementioned return to normalcy. This means rest and recovery. Because among all the negative that the pandemic brings us, it also offers us a very rare chance to deeply rest and recover.
Here, we practice what we've learned in the past few sessions on the awareness of breathing.
aatikchopra.com/meditation4
Realizing you're lost in thought is the true goal of meditation, if there is any. Catching yourself thinking about something is the act that creates options for you in your life -- to remain lost in thought or to become present -- but without the awareness of thought in the first place, you really don't have a choice but to be thrown around by the motions of thought.
aatikchopra.com/meditation3
Awareness of and stretching out the inhalation and exhalation. aatikchopra.com/meditaiton2
the difference between a wish and a goal; how every moment holds a world of possibilities; radical accountability.
aatikchopra.com/new-year
Treating strangers as loved ones is something we have heard before.
But treating loved ones as strangers, such as a gas attendant, is less common yet the same equation.
Gas Station Attendant = Loved One.
aatikchopra.com/gas-station-attendant
There are 2 phases for creating stillness examined in this dharma talk.
Phase 1: acknowledge you're running;
Phase 2: find out what you're running from.
Music in background: An Opening by East Forest.
aatikchopra.com/running-away
This trailer is for season 4 of the Modern Monk.ey podcast, which has seen podcast name and concept changes over the last 4 seasons, but that's what seasons (more broadly speaking) are for, right?
www.aatikchopra.com/trailer