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This site is for people who seriously practice meditation, question assumptions by default, and want clear, practice-based approaches to insight, awakening, and more.
If that sounds like you, you’re in the right place.
~ Michael Taft
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The Miracle of Existence
Try to find to whom the experiences are happening. All you can find are sensations arising in space and feelings moving through timeless openness. All of it is the appearance. What knows the appearance? And notice the vast, spacious, stillness, silence and darkness that’s right there. It’s right within every experience, and around every experience,…
Self-Liberation of Thought and All Experience
And if you sit with this for a little while, you may notice something odd, which is that the flow of body sensation in space is not really very different than the flow of thought in space. They’re not exactly the same thing, but they’re not that different either. And you may notice the same…
Stay with the Grief
There are important opportunities coming up. Midterm elections, marches, strikes, school board meetings, conversations with neighbors. It’s going to be sad, and enraging, and terrifying—even disgusting at times—but our practice has trained us to handle all of these feelings and keep our heart open and our head clear. And an open heart with a clear…