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Welcome to Very Vedic©. A knowledge podcast that answers the questions we all have about life today, using the oldest wisdom on the planet — the ancient Vedic texts from India, The Vedas.Host and founder of Bondi Meditation Centre, Matt Ringrose, has been teaching Vedic Meditation for a decade and has been using this ancient wisdom to support his students along the way. The more he teaches this knowledge, the more he appreciates its relevance in the world today. It’s so easy to understand an ...
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For this last episode of our third season we look to the future and explore the Metaverse. In this one Anna asks.... Why are we building it? How will it effect our spiritual progress? What are the dangers? How can it be used for good? What will karma look like in the Metaverse? What will love look like in the Metaverse? What is transhumanism? And d…
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In this episode we explore setting boundaries with family, friends, children and ourselves. When to set them, how to set them and why love is the key, as always. A very practical episode we hope! Lots of love and Jai Guru Deva Anna & MattBy Matt Ringrose
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Ready to enrol? Learn to Let Go here: www.bondimeditation.com.au/learntoletgo After a three month hiatus we're back with possibly our most cosmic episode yet. We explore the Vedic theory that absolutely everything we experience is ultimately the result of placebo, in the sense that what we believe and expect to happen, happens. This naturally leads…
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Ready to Learn to Let Go? Enrol @ www.bondimeditation.com.au/learntoletgo For this special episode we turned the tables and Matt asked Anna the questions. We discuss how Vedic Meditation and Vedic Knowledge have influenced Anna's experience of day-to-day life, her relationships and her sense of purpose. Anna explains which Vedic teachings that have…
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Competitiveness, Social Media & The Status Trap
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Ready to enrol? Learn to Let Go here: www.bondimeditation.com.au/learntoletgo In this one we find out that Matt was a competitive nightmare and how he finally managed to rein it in. We also examine why it’s so tempting to get caught up in the status game in general, and the rewards for opting out of it. Finally we take a good look at social media, …
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Ready to enrol? Learn to Let Go here: www.bondimeditation.com.au/learntoletgo For our comeback episode we dived straight back in at the deep end, tackling the most divisive topics of the moment (/ever?): Covid, vaccine choices and how to find our freedom in what is playing out in the world. Please excuse the less-than-perfect sound quality on this …
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In this episode, the last in our second series, we look deeply into speech and how we can refine it, we explore white lies and ‘the sweet truth’ before going out with a bang with a discussion around the sometimes sensitive topic of God. You can listen on Apple Podcasts here (link) and Spotify here (link) If you’ve been enjoying Very Vedic and haven…
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In this episode Anna and I explore the Vedic view on manifestation, money and compulsion, considering ideas about black magic, free will and determinism along the way. It gets pretty cosmic but is hopefully practical too! We really enjoyed making this one and have been looking forward to sharing it with you. With love and Jaiu Guru Deva Matt & Anna…
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After a brief hiatus while Anna was adventuring, we’re back with a new episode of our podcast Very Vedic. In this one we explore: Creativity - where it comes from, why it’s important and how to enjoy more of it. Trust - its role in spiritual development and how to build it Michael Jackson - Can we separate the art from the artist? Should we continu…
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George Floyd, Anna's Crisis of Faith & True Surrender
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We thought that this ended up being a particularly interesting episode. We recorded it in the immediate aftermath of the George Floyd tragedy so that naturally became part of the discussion. Anna also confessed that she has been feeling a crisis of faith around the fundamental principle of Vedic Knowledge: that ultimately benevolent forces are the …
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This is a special live Q&A episode on the subject of Vedic Parenting. It's relevance isn't limited to parents though, as we’re all involved in raising children in some capacity, whether as family relations, friends etc. I was joined by Vedic Meditation teacher and mother of 20-month-old Indi, Jess Osie. We recorded the session live on Zoom with stu…
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Deeper Into Charm, Conspiracy Theories & Radical Responsibility
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For this first episode of season two of Very Vedic, Anna and I explore experiences in the Covid-19 lockdown world from the comfort of my couch. No flash studios or sound recording experts on hand for this one so please excuse the touch of distortion on Anna's voice in the first half of the recording.…
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Very Vedic Live - Special Coronavirus Edition
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For this special episode, recorded live in Matt's living room in Bondi, we hosted a live online discussion about the coronavirus crisis. Listeners asked questions and Matt answered them in real time. As always with Vedic Knowledge, the conversation was an exploration of the possibilities that open up when we approach life consciously, and how the c…
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Australia's catastrophic bushfire season. What is Nature trying to tell us?
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In episode six of Very Vedic — season one’s final episode — Matt’s student Anna asks for the Vedic view on Australia’s catastrophic bushfire season. She identifies it as Destruction, one of the three underlying forces that control all things, but how do we even begin to accept that there’s a bigger reason for all of this when people and animals are…
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Love, intimate relationships and what to do when friendships become irrelevant.
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In episode five of Very Vedic, Matt’s student Anna starts by sharing the complete flow and blissfulness she felt while traveling to the studio to record. Matt shares that from the Vedic view, this was Anna experiencing the support of nature. In this episode, we learn that we create our own universe because our experience of the universe is based on…
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The often-bumpy journey to enlightenment, joy and living in our dharma.
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In episode four of Very Vedic, Matt’s student Anna asks about the relevance of joy from the Vedic view, which opened up an interesting discussion about the often bumpy and sometimes traumatic path to enlightenment. Matt reveals that as we begin our spiritual journeys, or even if we’re decades in, it is common to feel like our state of mind isn’t ma…
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Why spirituality shouldn't be serious, addictions & the spiritual approach to increasing self-discipline.
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In episode three of Very Vedic, Matt's student Anna shares a recurring feeling of nostalgia she has for her teenage years, and identifies it’s because she had little to no responsibilities. Everything felt fun. Spirituality can feel serious and in some practices, demand a rigid sense of responsibility from us, so Anna asks Matt where fun sits in th…
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In episode two of Very Vedic, Matt and Anna explore the concept of deletion, and the uncomfortability that comes with letting go of old ideas, emotions and beliefs. Anna is meditating, so why does she feel anxious? Matt uses Vedic wisdom to explain that what she is experiencing is a resistance to the feeling of discomfort that comes with death — or…
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Our mistaken intellect and the underlying forces that control all things.
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In episode one of Very Vedic, Matt and his student Anna explore some foundational Vedic concepts that help set up the discussions they’ll have moving forward. Anna begins by questioning the role of the ego, and asks if it is ever useful to us. Matt goes on to explain that the ego is neutral, but it is the intellect that can become mistaken and caus…
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