Finding Inner Peace, Day 5: "Seeking and Finding Your Truth"
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Be guided in a meditation exploring the Buddha's teachings on suffering, its causes, and the path to liberation through mindfulness, compassion, and wisdom. Observe the impermanence of all things and cultivate detachment from suffering.
THIS WEEK'S THEME: "Seeking and Finding Your Truth"
This 7-day meditation series explores one of the most profound times in human history -- the Axial Age. You'll discover ancient wisdom that remains with us today from the Axial Age, drawing on the teachings of its key thinkers to offer insights into living a meaningful and ethical life in the modern world. This series begins with a BONUS episode that launches into the series with deeper insight and a longer guided meditation that is offered daily on the Sip and Om meditation app that you are gifted to explore for a full week.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 3,307 of the daily meditation podcast. |
| 0:09.8 | I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you as you give yourself permission to slow down. |
| 0:19.2 | Meditation is one of the best things you could do for yourself all day long. |
| 0:26.6 | And in today's episode, you continue along with this week's series. |
| 0:33.7 | The series we're exploring this week takes you through the Axial Age when great thinkers |
| 0:43.8 | such as Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Plato, Aristotle, and Confucius, and the Hebrew prophets and many other great thinkers lived |
| 1:01.0 | from the 8th to the 3rd century BCE. |
| 1:07.0 | This is an era referred to as the axial age. |
| 1:13.5 | This is a time on earth when great thinkers emerged to make sense out of the world. |
| 1:22.4 | During this time, transformative, intellectual, philosophical, and religious systems emerged across various |
| 1:33.5 | civilizations, and this profoundly shaped all subsequent human thought and culture. During this time, cultures were rising and falling, |
| 1:50.3 | and formerly more tribal or communal societies emerged with a new concept of individual self-awareness and the emphasis on personal responsibility for |
| 2:09.7 | one's actions. |
| 2:12.1 | Formally, that was not part of the thought process during those times. |
| 2:19.1 | When those ancient tribal communal civilizations were conquered, |
| 2:26.9 | new cities and territories emerged with the borders integrating different tribal communities together. |
| 2:41.0 | So the society at that time was forced, for survival's sake, to adapt to other thoughts, philosophies, religions, and spirituality. |
| 2:57.8 | And so these great thinkers emerged to make sense out of this new way of living. |
| 3:06.9 | And this is a time when people were questioning and seeking truth. |
| 3:16.4 | Previous traditions and culture wasn't working so well in this new integrated society. |
| 3:26.0 | And this meant that they began to question former beliefs. |
| 3:33.0 | In today's meditation, you're going to be guided to find your own inner peace with the teachings of Buddha, who emerged |
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