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The Pathless Path 09 - 20 Minute Guided Meditation

by Daniel Schmidt

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These guided meditations are not from any particular tradition, but could be seen as reflecting the perennial teaching inherent to many traditions. They have been created to help convey the practice that will lead to Samadhi, which is realization of your true nature beyond this limited form. Integral to this ancient form of meditation is the cultivating of the skills of concentration and inner surrender (mindfulness), as well as mind emptiness.

MeditationSamadhiSelf InquiryEmptinessEquanimityAwarenessMindLetting GoPerceptionPranaConcentrationMindfulnessNon Dual AwarenessPrimordial AwarenessUnwholesome MindNon PerceptionGuided MeditationsNon Duality

Transcript

All of these instructions point towards just sitting.

It may seem like I'm asking you to do something,

But there is literally nothing to do in this meditation.

The meditation is the dropping of the doing and the doer.

Sitting is just what is left when there is no more doing and no doer.

There are many stages of absorption into this moment,

Into what is.

With each stage of absorption into this moment there's a dropping away of conditioned mind patterns.

It's sometimes said that to realize samadhi it's best to sit as if you will be sitting forever without any sense of time,

Without a goal or destination,

Without thought.

You don't turn this dropping off of mind and body into a goal if you turn samadhi into a goal it becomes an activity in the mind or an unconscious identification you when you are awake here and now what is realized is the primordial awareness was always present and all stages of absorption in this moment are ultimately illusory but until awakening is realized the practice helps to make the limited self structure more permeable to awareness you you let go of all preferences pleasant and unpleasant sensations let go of any discrimination between this and not let go of any interest in thoughts whatsoever you Notice if your mind is fabricating an external world,

A sense of things constructed by thoughts,

And a sense of being.

Notice if you are retreating into inner emptiness and pushing away thoughts.

Let go of both the inner and the outer worlds.

Don't get caught in the outer world of name and form,

And don't try to escape into emptiness.

Let everything be exactly as it is,

Realizing the truth.

It is the limited dualistic mind that creates inner and outer.

Let go of the inner and the outer worlds.

Let go of the inner and the outer worlds.

If you observe the observer and you see some thing,

Some object,

Then it is the false self,

The false I.

Keep inquiring into who or what is looking.

Find out who or what you are beyond the mind and senses.

Realize the self which does not come and go.

If it comes and goes,

It is not the true self.

If phenomena arises,

Be equanimous with it,

Unmoved,

Unshaken,

Inhabiting it fully.

Be present with what is arising,

Fully conscious.

Don't get distracted by what the eyes see.

Recognize emptiness within all things.

Recognize that by which seeing is possible.

Don't get distracted by what the ears hear.

Hear silence within all sound.

Recognize sound as silence.

Recognize that by which hearing is possible.

Don't get distracted by what the body feels.

Recognize stillness within the movement,

Within the field of change.

Recognize stillness as movement and movement as stillness,

Emptiness dancing.

Realize that by which feeling is possible.

To see the luminous emptiness,

To hear the music of silence,

To feel the emptiness dancing,

We simply experience this moment as it is,

Unmediated by a limited self.

All is empty,

Unlimited awareness,

Dancing as energy,

Prana,

Or love.

The truth is neither found through perception nor through non-perception.

Let the entire universe be your mind.

If the universe is your mind,

Then there's no other than mind.

There's no you and nothing other than you.

When mind is limited,

It is the egoic self.

When it is unlimited,

It is your true nature.

You You you Meditation has no beginning and no end.

It does not end when you get up from the cushion if it's true meditation.

If you have understood,

Not with the understanding of the limited mind,

But with the heart's knowing.

Meditation is not something separate from life.

Meditation is life.

Meditation is life.

You you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you

Meet your Teacher

Daniel SchmidtBancroft, ON, Canada

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Recent Reviews

Ashok

August 22, 2025

Lovely deep meditation for advanced practitioners. Thank you for this beautiful gift. Namaste πŸ™πŸ½

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June 8, 2025

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December 30, 2023

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December 7, 2023

Brillant meditation practice. By far the best recordings on this app. Thank you.

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November 7, 2023

Wonderful

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October 30, 2023

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August 18, 2023

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Linda

June 5, 2023

You are an isighful, helpful guide in your meditations. So grateful to have found your seriesπŸ™πŸŽΌπŸ§Έ

Moraima

May 22, 2023

This guide meditation serves me well today. Thanks

cate

March 24, 2023

Excellent

Claudia

March 17, 2023

Thank you. I’m able to experience my higher self, my soul.

John

March 19, 2022

Daniel just exudes experience when he guides these meditations. I can feel the truth of what he is saying even though i still have yet to experience it myself. Of all the teachers here on Insight that i have listened too, he is the brightest light.

Nathan

March 18, 2022

Excellent series. After hitting a plateau for several months, your guided meditations are helping me move forward again.

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