We’re bringing kindness, and caring, and a sense of dignity, and equality to even all the animals on the earth, and every river, and every stream, and every rock, and every plant, and every bird, and every drop of water in the ocean, and every cloud, and every fish, and all beings on the entire earth becoming healed, and joyous, and thriving, again.
So we want that in our practice both in our body and even in our mind, where the mind is relaxed, the mind is open, the mind is at ease. As I sometimes put it, you know, I said it tonight, the core of your mind relaxes.
Host Michael Taft speaks with meditation teacher and author Kelly Boys on the practice of non-sleep, deep rest—a modern name for the ancient practice of yoga nidra, using liminal states as gateways to profound meditative… Read More »The Power of Non-sleep Deep Rest with Kelly Boys
Guided Nondual Meditation with Michael Taft Streamed live Dec 3, 2021 So, let’s begin. We’re not going to do most of our usual lead-in today. I just want you to set up your posture and,… Read More »Short Shamatha Smorgasbord
Guided Nondual Meditation with Michael Taft Streamed live on November 11, 2021 So let’s begin our meditation now. What I’d like you to do is to set up your posture and remember that in these… Read More »Vipashyana on the Origin, Location, and Destination of Thoughts
Host Michael Taft interviews Tibetan Buddhist meditation teacher and author Andrew Holecek on nondual practice and theory, finding your way back to the true nature of mind, the dangers of getting dropped off in the… Read More »A Conversation on Nonduality with Andrew Holecek
Streamed live on Nov 4, 2021 Guided Nondual Meditation with Michael Taft Let’s begin with our setup. What’s the first part of our setup? The first part of our setup is getting in our meditation… Read More »The Mountain of Awareness
Host Michael Taft speaks with meditation master and neuroscience consultant Shinzen Young on the background and history of Zen Master LinJi (aka Rinzai, in Japanese), the meaning of his famous phrase “the authentic person,” various… Read More »Nondual Teachings of LinJi with Shinzen Young
Host Michael Taft talks with meditation teacher and author Tina Rasmussen about how psychology and meditation practice can work together to help people heal, working with trauma, the importance of heart-based practices such as metta,… Read More »Can People Really Change?, with Tina Rasmussen
Host Michael Taft talks with neuroscientist and meditator Ruben Laukkonen about the phenomenology of the insight experience, how the sequence of deepening meditative practices maps onto the model of predictive processing in the human brain,… Read More »Meditation, Insight, and Predictive Processing with Ruben Laukkonen
This guided meditation is a westernized and adapted version of tonglen meditation from the Vajrayana tradition of Tibet and India. Tonglen means giving and receiving, and in this sit we’re giving the compassion the healing… Read More »Giving and Receiving (Nondual Sun Visualization)
What can ancient Sanskrit poetry of love and longing teach us about our own deepest spirituality? Join host Michael Taft as he explores this question with professor, author, and teacher Rick Jarow. Further topics include… Read More »Eco-Aesthetics and the Poetry of Longing, with Rick Jarow
Host Michael Taft speaks with Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton about her recent work with the 21 manifestations of the Goddess Tara, some aspects of Green Tara, and especially the role of vision and visualization in Vajrayana, and Buddhism more generally. Beginning with the somewhat negative role of the eyes in early Buddhist practice, moving through the Mahayana sutras talking about “enlightened eyes,” and the “Eye of the Buddha,” and culminating with the rainbow light practices of Vajrayana and Dzogchen. Topics include: Nagarjuna’s vision metaphor of emptiness, the esoteric subtle channel from the heart to the eyes, meditation on kasinas, and much more.