Loving-Kindness Breathing Technique, Day 3: "Seeking and Finding Your Truth"
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Be guided with a loving-kindness breathing technique. Discover the emergence of universal ethical principles, emphasizing compassion, empathy, and treating others as we wish to be treated during the Axial Age of Great Thinkers.
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 3,306 of the daily meditation podcast. I'm Mary Meckley, and as always, |
| 0:11.3 | I welcome you as you give yourself permission to slow down to connect to the best part of who you are. And in today's episode, you are guided in |
| 0:27.8 | day three of this week's journey. You are seeking and finding your truth as you journey |
| 0:37.4 | through the axial age, a pivotal time in human history |
| 0:42.7 | where great thinkers regarding philosophy, spirituality, and humanity created ideologies that we follow to this very day. |
| 0:58.3 | And this is a time when these great thought leaders emerged at the same time during |
| 1:08.5 | 800 BCE to 200 BCE. Great thinkers such as Confucius, Aristotle and Plato from the Western |
| 1:21.0 | world, Greece was at the pinnacle of its power at that time. These were the Western thought leaders that emerged. |
| 1:30.7 | Buddha emerged from India. |
| 1:34.6 | The Hebrew prophets emerged from Israel. |
| 1:38.6 | Zoroaster emerged from Persia. |
| 1:41.8 | And from China emerged Confucius and Lao Tzu. |
| 1:49.1 | There's an important reason why these great thinkers emerged. |
| 1:56.1 | It's believed it had to do with a shift in focus where the primary focus had previously emphasized |
| 2:05.4 | communal identity tribal existence and because of the disruption and the |
| 2:16.3 | conquering of certain territories and the emergence of new states, |
| 2:23.3 | the communal identity shifted to a greater focus on individual self-awareness. |
| 2:33.3 | This is something people could not fathom before. |
| 2:38.0 | It did not exist in a tribal communal type of setting. |
| 2:44.0 | It's also believed that these changes in thinking about the self were closely tied to the significant social upheavals that were occurring during this time frame. |
| 2:58.6 | The rise of empires, urbanization, and increased social complexity. In essence, as societies grew and became more complex, |
| 3:14.6 | traditional ways of understanding the world and one's place in it became less relevant. |
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