Host Michael Taft speaks with Rin’dzin Pamo and Jared Janes about their new project, entitled “Evolving Ground,” which is a community of practitioners that seeks to reinterpret and revitalize Vajrayana practice in a contemporary Western… Read More »Evolving Ground with Rin’dzin Pamo and Jared Janes
Guided Nondual Meditation with Michael Taft 3:00 Begin Guided meditation, doing Shamatha with an object (relaxation). 18:00 Move into “Relaxing the Core of the Mind.” Letting go of any grasping onto any object. 1:04:00 Dharma… Read More »Resting in the Natural Mind
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft Oftentimes, meditation seems to make an enemy of thought. As if thought is a bad thing, or at least something we need to get rid of or not have… Read More »Awareness Inside Thought
Writer, translator, teacher, and business consultant, Ken McLeod speaks with host Michael Taft about the chaos unleashed by new forms of communication, dedicating your whole life to meditation and spiritual experience, what evokes a deep… Read More »A Conversation with Ken McLeod
Guided Meditation by Michael Taft First 15 min – Shamatha with an object.Then Dissolving with the OutbreathThen Shamatha without an objectThen the body is deconstructed into earth, air, fire, water, and space. There are many… Read More »Deconstructing the Body into the Traditional Elements
Guided Meditation with Michael Taft In this hour-long guided meditation, Michael Taft leads you through the four Brahma Viharas Meditation, or “Divine Abodes.”
Author, podcaster, award-winning journalist, and cultural historian Erik Davis speaks with host Michael Taft about QAnon as a new religion, Gnostic psychology and the power of the secret truth, new narrative warfare exploiting human psychology,… Read More »Paranoia, Conspiracy, and Covid, with Erik Davis
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft One hour meditation: 2:58 – Meditation begins (shamatha with an object)17:45 – Dissolving with the Out Breath32:11 – Dropping the Ball (i.e. shamatha without an object)47:10 – Cut through… Read More »Using Emptiness to Cut Through
Nondual Guided Meditation by Michael Taft Meditation begins at 4:20 and lasts for one hour. We start with with raising bodhicitta. 9:22 – Then focused relaxation (shamatha with an object).24:00 – We being “relaxing the… Read More »Empty Awareness—Aware Emptiness (Nondual)
Guided Meditation by Michael Taft Lasts for one hour. Followed by dharma talk and Q&A. Behind the apparent confusion and hubbub of sensory experience—including thoughts, feelings, body sensations, sight, sound, smell, taste, and everything else—there… Read More »Silence, Stillness (Nondual)
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft Continuing with digging deeper into nondual meditation techniques over the past year or so, in this guided meditation, Michael Taft expands contact with the experience of the awakened mind—which… Read More »Boundaryless, Timeless Stillness
Jhanas are special states of deep absorption that make a wonderful setup for doing awakening practices. In this video, meditation teacher Michael Taft describes what jhanas are, and clarifies the basic steps for getting into… Read More »How to Jhana
Neuroscientist and mindfulness expert Jud Brewer speaks with host Michael Taft about his research into the four steps of Rigpa (with teacher and psychologist Dan Brown), effortlessness in meditation and the feeling of openness vs.… Read More »Effortlessness in Meditation, with Jud Brewer