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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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Awakening and Flow States with Loch Kelly
In this episode, host Michael Taft speaks with meditation teacher Loch Kelly about what comes after the first glimpse. They distinguish “waking up”—recognizing openness, stillness, the absence of a separate self—from “waking with,” in which appearances are seen as inseparable from awake awareness, or what is called “one taste.” The conversation covers flow states as…
A Conversation with Delson Armstrong
Days after narrowly surviving a catastrophic flood, meditation teacher Delson Armstrong joins Michael Taft to consider what remains when spiritual ideas fall away. Their conversation explores primal awareness, the spiritual ego, and Delson’s forthcoming collection of Sanskrit aphorisms—a “love letter to the exhausted seeker” synthesizing Buddhism, Vedānta, Yoga, Sāṃkhya, and Tantra. They also discuss paraconsciousness,…
More Than Enough Room
The conversations range across awareness, freedom, anxiety, grief, awakening, compassion, the sense of self, and what practice looks like inside an ordinary life. They are not essays or prepared teachings. I kept the movement of the original conversations—the hesitations, misunderstandings, follow-up questions, and changes of direction—because the conversation itself is part of the teaching.