Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft The title is a bit of a misnomer. In the final analysis, awareness is not centered anywhere in particular. It is either “centered” everywhere at once or nowhere at… Read More »Vast Spacious Awareness Centered in the Belly
Host Michael Taft speaks with meditation teacher and shamanic practitioner Spring Washam about the “dharma of Harriet Tubman,” the inner vs. the outer journey of finding liberation, how the “meditation bubble” can actually block spiritual… Read More »A Conversation with Spring Washam
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft Mental imagery is a major component of thinking for a human being. However, How much of this mental imagery is available to conscious introspection varies widely between individuals. Some… Read More »Emptiness of Mental Imagery
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft One of the core practices of the nondual traditions of Buddhism (also known as “essence” or “direct path” traditions) is vipashyana. This is the Sanskrit version of the word… Read More »Exploring Emptiness in the Breath
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft Once we establish the view of vast spacious awareness, we can notice that awareness is already aware. There’s nothing you need to do to make it more aware. Notice… Read More »Being Present with Awareness of Breathing
Host Michael Taft speaks with science journalist, author, and podcaster David McRaney about how people do (and do not) change their minds, how brains form their view of reality, conspiracy theory, the method of “technique… Read More »Talking with People about Things, with David McRaney
Nondual Guided Meditation by Michael Taft 1:00 – Shamatha31:05 – Vipashyana on perception of various content: sounds, emotions, thoughts. Particularly noticing their vanishing.1:01:00 – Dharma talk and Q&A Contribute to making more of these nondual… Read More »Nondual Vipashyana on the Vanishing of Perceptions
One-hour guided nondual meditation by Michael Taft Meditation sequence:1:30 – Posture guidance3:57 – Rousing bodhicitta5:17 – Shamatha with an object (breath) and guided relaxation21:14 – Dissolving on the outbreath40:47 – Shamatha without an object50:43 –… Read More »Just Look (Nondual Investigation)
One-hour nondual guided meditation with Michael Taft. Most people think of themselves as having awareness, which is located in a brain, which is inside a body, which is inside the world. While this works well… Read More »Resting Awareness in the Heart
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft The conscious thinking mind is excellent and solving certain types of problems, or understanding things in certain contexts. How can I fix my sink? What is the solution to… Read More »Nondual Inquiry Practice
Host Michael Taft speaks with meditation teacher Catherine McGee about Soulmaking Dharma; her journey into meditation practice; using the word “soul” in a Buddhist context; working with the energy body; connecting with the imaginal in… Read More »Soulmaking Dharma with Catherine McGee
In this eight-part series, dharma teachers Michael Owens and Michael Taft present the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra (The Advice of Vimalakirti) for the San Francisco Dharma Collective. In each of the eight parts, Michael Owens will… Read More »Meditating with Vimalakirti
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft According to Buddhist cosmology, the world of existence is divided into six types of beings. As one who is trapped in Samsara (i.e. ‘the world”) you can be reborn… Read More »Meditating on the Six Realms of Existence