Seeking Truth, Day 4: "Seeking and Finding Your Truth"
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
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🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Be guided in a Reflective meditation on a question or belief that you hold, examining its origins, validity, and impact on your life. The Axial Age's emphasis on questioning traditional beliefs and seeking truth through reason, logic, and personal experience is explored as part of your daily dose of ancient wisdom insight.
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. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to today's featured episode. |
| 0:17.1 | You have been on a fascinating journey this week as you have been meditating with the great thinkers who founded our very thought process we have today. |
| 0:34.6 | The theme this week is seeking and finding your truth. |
| 0:40.3 | You are journeying through the great thinkers of the Axial Age. |
| 0:46.9 | These are thinkers who form the foundation for how we think today. |
| 0:53.1 | Great thinkers such as Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, |
| 1:02.9 | and the Hebrew prophets to name a few of the great thinkers that emerged at the same time of this axial era, roughly from |
| 1:17.6 | the 8th to the 3rd century BCE, they were introducing transformative, intellectual, philosophical, and religious systems across various |
| 1:33.5 | civilizations, including Greece, which was the height of the Western civilized world during |
| 1:42.7 | the Axial Age, as well as Persia and Asia and Israel and India |
| 1:51.8 | and China, where prior to the Axial Age, societies existed tribally or communally. And with the rise and fall of civilizations |
| 2:07.6 | in those regions prior to the axial age and during the axial age, great civilizations crashed. New civilizations emerged. And these ancient tribal |
| 2:25.5 | communities were suddenly thrust together. They were forced to integrate for survival. |
| 2:40.1 | These new civilizations were formed not along tribal boundaries or within different communal areas, but rather they were drawn randomly and encompassed |
| 2:49.7 | varying, often very different tribal communities. |
| 2:55.6 | So great thinkers emerged during this time. |
| 2:59.6 | They began to question the nature of existence and suffering and the path to spiritual liberation or enlightenment. |
| 3:11.7 | And with this new thought that was required to survive in this brand new world, |
| 3:20.9 | there was an emphasis on the self, self-awareness, personal responsibility, and ethical |
| 3:30.5 | conduct. And throughout this week, you've been guided in meditations, exploring these |
| 3:37.5 | different concepts. Well, today, you are going to be guided in the concepts formulated by the Western great |
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