1057 Dalai Lama Sleep Technique
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2017
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Use this technique to sleep better tonight.
This is part 6 of a 7-Part Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life Series, Episodes 1052-1058.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 1057. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I honor you for being exactly where you are |
| 0:11.0 | as you get ready to slow down. |
| 0:15.0 | Whether you listen to this episode as you're seated, |
| 0:18.0 | getting ready to meditate, |
| 0:20.0 | or out doing errands or maybe even getting ready to drift off to sleep is all good. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Mary Meckley. I share a different meditation technique every single day in the podcast here and each |
| 0:36.2 | technique is customized around a weekly theme so you can explore a topic in depth |
| 0:42.4 | and this week are so you can explore a topic in depth. |
| 0:43.0 | And this week, our theme is |
| 0:47.0 | ancient wisdom for your modern life. |
| 0:50.0 | So in each episode you've explored how to use ancient techniques right in the midst of your |
| 1:05.0 | going to use a technique I think you'll find handy |
| 1:08.0 | and it is a sleeping technique from the Dalai Lama. |
| 1:13.7 | So it's a technique that he does. |
| 1:18.1 | And I read his book called The Art of Happiness. He's written many books, but this was a book that he co-authored with |
| 1:28.6 | someone who was writing about his life. And in the book he shared many fantastic techniques and this was one of them. |
| 1:39.8 | Now just in case you're not sure who the Dalai Lama is, he is the 14th Dalai Lama and he's also the leader of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. |
| 1:58.0 | And here's a little ancient wisdom for you. So the current Dalai Lama, he is considered to be the |
| 2:10.4 | spiritual leader of Tibet and in 1959 China annexed Tibet and the Dalai Lama has been in exile in Daramsala India ever since. |
| 2:29.0 | So he's still considered the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, but he continues to do this in exile. |
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