Awakening Now
Join Ilona Ciunaite for honest conversations and guided explorations into the nature of self, consciousness, and awakening.
This podcast is for those who are looking not just to understand awakening, but to see it — directly, in their own experience.
Each episode invites you to slow down, inquire, and notice awareness itself.
Through guided Deep Looking sessions and dialogues with teachers, authors, and fellow explorers, Ilona opens the door to what many call spiritual awakening — seeing through the illusion of self, and discovering peace that doesn’t come and go.
You’ll explore:
– Self-inquiry and direct experience
– Deep Looking and seeing beyond the mind
– The process of awakening and integration
– Presence, awareness, and the end of seeking
Ilona Ciunaite is a guide, author, and co-creator of the Liberation Unleashed community. For over 14 years, she has been helping seekers all over the world discover freedom through direct experience.
If you are ready to look within, this podcast offers clear guidance and grounded conversation — simple, sincere, and free of spiritual jargon
Awakening Now
Discover Buddhist Practice To End Suffering With Doug Kraft
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Meet Doug Kraft and get practical advice on using Buddhist practice to end suffering. This conversation is filled with clear, simple pointers and tools you can apply today. You do not need to be a Buddhist to practice meditation and relaxation into awareness. You can start now and explore what happens if you apply the method of the Six R's and other tools that Doug is generously sharing.
Doug Kraft is a meditation teacher, psychotherapist, Unitarian Universalist minister, and author of Circling Home, Buddha's Map, Meditator’s Field Guide, Befriending the Mind, and Presence, to name a few.
More info at https://www.easingawake.com/?p=Books.
He was the lead minister in Sacramento for 14 years before retiring to spend more time teaching the Dhammā and mentoring meditators. He lives in Sacramento along the American River with his wife and cat. Recently he became a doting grandfather.
More info at http://www.dougkraft.com/?p=Doug
You can get in touch with Dough by emailing him on
doug@easingawake.com
If you need assistance with your own inquiry come to Liberation Unleashed where you can register for a free account and get a volunteer guide completely free of charge. Or if you need my support, send me an email through my website which is
http://www.IlonaCiunaite.com I’ll be happy to help.
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Podcast
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Music by Valdi Sabev, Visit his channel for more calm and relaxed music
https://www.youtube.com/c/ValdiSabev/featured
00:00:00 Introduction
00:03:30 What is awakening?
00:10:27 What drives seeking?
00:14:07 Trying too hard
00:17:57 Six R's strategy
00:22:27 Four Noble Truths
00:26:57 Non-dual awareness
00:32:02 Awareness of content and processes
00:38:17 What is always here?
00:44:27 The path to freedom
00:48:57 Resistance
00:54:02 Drawn or pushed
00:55:57 Last words
Websites
http://ilonaciunaite.com
http://liberationunleashed.com