Mindfulness Without Judgement, Day 2: "Seeking and Finding Your Truth"
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Be guided in a mindfulness meditation on observing your thoughts, feelings, and actions without judgment, cultivating a sense of accountability.
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 3,305 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you as you continue with this week's journey. |
| 0:17.0 | This is a unique series because you are aligning with the great thought leaders of what is referred to as the axial age. |
| 0:28.9 | And this is an age where the great thinkers of the ancient world whose thoughts and philosophies and spirituality impact us to this day. |
| 0:43.3 | This is when the people we often refer to when it comes to wisdom and spirituality and key traditions in the eastern and western world were peers in a sense. |
| 1:00.9 | They were living at the same time on the planet, more or less. |
| 1:06.8 | And they didn't know each other or interact with each other necessarily, but they seemed to |
| 1:13.7 | be drawing from a similar thought process. There was a move away from purely mythological |
| 1:21.7 | explanations of the world towards more rational and philosophical inquiry. |
| 1:29.7 | The myths of the ancient world remained important, |
| 1:34.5 | but there was a growing emphasis on reason, logic, and personal experience. |
| 1:41.4 | And who were these key thinkers? |
| 1:47.0 | They were none other. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, who focused on philosophical reasoning coming from |
| 1:55.0 | Greece, the power of the Western world at that time. And Buddha and Mahavira, who is the founder of |
| 2:05.3 | Jainism, from India, who focused on spiritual liberation and nonviolence. And then coming from China was |
| 2:17.0 | Confucius, Lao Tzu. And they focused on social |
| 2:23.5 | harmony and ethical living. And from Persia came Zoroaster with ethical monotheism, the belief in one God. |
| 2:37.1 | And the same focus was taking place in Israel at that time with the Hebrew prophets. |
| 2:44.8 | In yesterday's episode as you were launched into this week's series, |
| 2:50.8 | I shared with you a full episode from the SIP |
| 2:54.8 | and Ome meditation app, and you are invited to try the app absolutely free for a full week. It gives |
| 3:04.7 | you access to over 3,000 guided meditations. |
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