Meditation beyond subject and object: resting as open awareness itself. Talks, teachings, and pointers on nondual practice; including Do-Nothing meditation, the emptiness of self and world, and the shift from doing meditation to being awareness.
Start here: Nonduality – Defining the Undefinable
Joy and Gratitude: A Practice in Nondual Presence June 9, 2026 - And so to find those places where we really got that kind of energy and—not in a massively guilty or shameful or even you know fervorous way try to deconstruct… Read More »Joy and Gratitude: A Practice in Nondual Presence
Letting Go of All Contraction May 11, 2026 - So, in one sense this is nondual meditation. We're not focusing on something. We're not trying to focus on something. That's a different kind of meditation, which is fine. Nothing… Read More »Letting Go of All Contraction
Openness Energy Awake April 16, 2026 - Who's even trying to meditate? Who is meditating? Just look—see if you can find that individual. All you find is vast spacious awakeness with no friction, no impedance, no constriction… Read More »Openness Energy Awake
The Miracle of Existence April 1, 2026 - 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.… Read More »The Miracle of Existence
Self-Liberation of Thought and All Experience February 22, 2026 - 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… Read More »Self-Liberation of Thought and All Experience
Michael Taft Interviewed by Pranab February 7, 2026 - Host Michael Taft is interviewed by Pranab Sachithanandan about Michael's Stack Model for deconstructing sensory experience, his "adapter kit" for accessing nondual Vajrayana methods without years of preliminaries, why mantra… Read More »Michael Taft Interviewed by Pranab
Nondual Awakening on the Waking Up App January 20, 2026 - Michael Taft talks with Nate Green of the Waking Up app about Michael's new series, entitled Nondual Awakening. Read More »Nondual Awakening on the Waking Up App
Deep Relaxation into Nondual Openness January 13, 2026 - And so to come back is to open up, not to reawaken in your prison. There is no prison, you know, when just dropping the box drops the bars to… Read More »Deep Relaxation into Nondual Openness
Nondual Energy in the Central Channel January 3, 2026 - From this place of awake space, uninvolved in thought, breathe in and feel the energy coming into the belly, and making the belly quite energized on the in-breath. And then,… Read More »Nondual Energy in the Central Channel
Awake to Your Own Awakeness December 27, 2025 - Who or what is it that's making an effort, or trying to do something, or trying to find something, or trying to see or hear something? What is efforting? What… Read More »Awake to Your Own Awakeness
Pointing Out through Metaphor November 12, 2025 - Sit like the sky, because our actual natural mind is spacious. Sit like a mountain, because it's stable. Sit like the sun, because it's bright and luminous, clear and sit… Read More »Pointing Out through Metaphor
The Paradox of Wholeness October 29, 2025 - The thinking mind is not separate from the still silent spaciousness - they co-arise. It's only skillful means to temporarily pretend that we can separate them. But in a deeper… Read More »The Paradox of Wholeness
Your Awakened Nature Is Right There October 15, 2025 - Good. Now notice what's underneath the stillness or inside the stillness. There is no ground there at all. It's not that it's nothing, because it's not nothing, but there's no… Read More »Your Awakened Nature Is Right There
Finding the Stillness and Peace of Who You Really Are October 3, 2025 - Notice, there's no separate sense of self here. There's not “me” as some kind of defined person within this. There's just thoughts and feelings suspended over an infinite, wide awake,… Read More »Finding the Stillness and Peace of Who You Really Are
Brahmaviharas and Tonglen September 23, 2025 - And since what we're doing is the activity of the bodhisattva of compassion, while we're doing this let's also chant the mantra of Avalokiteshvara, which we were doing before. We'll… Read More »Brahmaviharas and Tonglen
Nonduality and the Ego with Jake Orthwein September 21, 2025 - Host Michael Taft talks with Jake Orthwein about the self as a construction, the distinction between no-self and emptiness, the crucial difference between having a functional ego and being identified… Read More »Nonduality and the Ego with Jake Orthwein
Coming from the Source of Everything August 8, 2025 - Good. Continuing to come from the core, to come from the source, to come from radiant awakeness itself, the unmanifest, the infinitely, boundlessly, spacious, notice that this energy of awakeness… Read More »Coming from the Source of Everything
Inquiry into the Open Sky July 25, 2025 - Now, in this place of vast, open, awareness, ask yourself this question: What is peace? Don't answer the question with the machinery of your thinking, or with a memory or… Read More »Inquiry into the Open Sky
Being the Stillness July 17, 2025 - Then, notice the room around you, the sights, the sounds, everything. That's a lot of movement and color, and is that really separate from awareness? Is it like awareness is… Read More »Being the Stillness
The Ego and Nondual Meditation July 1, 2025 - So the ego is not something that needs to go away. It's, I don't even think, unless you're alone all the time, I don't even think it, um, can go… Read More »The Ego and Nondual Meditation
Being Effulgent Spaciousness June 26, 2025 - Now, without engaging ideas at all, and noticing this wide open wide awake spacious, boundaryless, vibratory body and mind. Just notice directly what you notice when I ask you to… Read More »Being Effulgent Spaciousness
A Conversation with David Godman June 18, 2025 - Host Michael Taft talks with author David Godman about the sage Ramana Maharshi and his nondual view of the world, whether he considered taking sannyasa (renunciation) to be necessary to… Read More »A Conversation with David Godman
Feel the Love Outside the Mind May 30, 2025 - When we're outside the thinking mind, it's easy to just sit with it. It just stays there, shining in our energy field, shining in our presence, shining in the body.… Read More »Feel the Love Outside the Mind
Nondual Meditation – Being the Stillness May 22, 2025 - Now, notice something very interesting. From the place of being the stillness that knows, is the energy of the body—this tingly, dancing energy of feeling alive, is that really separate?… Read More »Nondual Meditation – Being the Stillness
Talking about Dark Retreat with Andrew Holecek May 10, 2025 - Host Michael Taft speaks with Andrew Holecek about the practice of Dark Retreat, how the mind "falls into itself," light as obfuscator, the revelation of the construction of reality, the… Read More »Talking about Dark Retreat with Andrew Holecek
Dropping the Ultra Ball April 26, 2025 - Notice that each time an object fades, a perception vanishes, dissolves, relaxes, lets go, reveals its emptiness, shows its dream-like nature. Each time that happens, there is a similar relief,… Read More »Dropping the Ultra Ball
Ease and Spaciousness in Body and Mind March 20, 2025 - Simply rest as fast spacious wakefulness, allowing everything to be just the way it is, exactly the way it is, a shining miracle of purity and joy, and a foul… Read More »Ease and Spaciousness in Body and Mind
Dissolving the Core of Tension February 24, 2025 - Now, continuing to just sit in simple presence, notice if there's any tension in the core of your mind. Tension in the core of your mind is what keeps you… Read More »Dissolving the Core of Tension
Thoughts Without a Thinker February 17, 2025 - esting as awake space, recognizing that the stillness of awake space, and the movement of thought, are never separate. They always arise together, as does the stillness of awake space,… Read More »Thoughts Without a Thinker
Effortlessly Being the Welcoming Openness February 10, 2025 - Now ask yourself, and don't answer from thinking, or memory, or reasoning, or rationalization, or the mind in any way, simply look for the answer. Where is the center of… Read More »Effortlessly Being the Welcoming Openness
Wide open, Wide awake January 22, 2025 - See if you can find that subtle energy behind the breathing, that subtle energy behind the breathing will be moving up and down in the core of the body, but… Read More »Wide open, Wide awake
Relax into Mental Flow December 30, 2024 - In this vast, open, spacious awareness, the flow of thought activity is actually just a very, very, tiny part of it. That's why we're not really narrowly focusing on that–it's… Read More »Relax into Mental Flow
Touching the Stillness December 9, 2024 - Now, from this space of still, silent, wide awakeness, notice the flavors of sensation and movement in the body. They're not still—the feelings of energy, the feelings of regular sensations,… Read More »Touching the Stillness
What Are You Avoiding? November 27, 2024 - Then, on an in-breath, the moon comes right into our heart, becomes our own heart, shining in the sky of the mind. Radiating peace in all directions, love and joy… Read More »What Are You Avoiding?
Digging into Experience and Experiencer November 18, 2024 - Good. Now, ask yourself, what is aware of thought? What knows thought?—And then, look. Look comprehensively. Try to find what knows thought. It's interesting, that if you're really looking for… Read More »Digging into Experience and Experiencer
Sit in Simple Presence October 6, 2024 - can lead you through a thousand really complicated—extra triple complicated—techniques, but it all comes down to: can you just sit with how you're feeling or not? One of the moves… Read More »Sit in Simple Presence
Dissolve All Thought in Space September 17, 2024 - Notice how really, really, wide open things are. If you're engaged with machinery of thought, you’re way stuck down inside your mind, but, when you disengage and just come into… Read More »Dissolve All Thought in Space
You Are Effortless Boundless Awakeness September 9, 2024 - So, if that awake space, that Gnostic, boundlessness, is apparent, then come to an even deeper sense of presence in that. It's not a thought, it's not a feeling, it's… Read More »You Are Effortless Boundless Awakeness
Radiantly Awake Space of Love September 3, 2024 - Can you notice, as you sit in simple presence, that the room is part of that simple presence—it's not somehow separate. And that every conscious being in this room is… Read More »Radiantly Awake Space of Love
Practicing the Diamond Sutra with Ken McLeod July 24, 2024 - Host Michael Taft speaks with eminent Buddhist teacher, translator, and author Ken McLeod about how to use the Diamond Sutra as a practice text. What is the sutra really getting… Read More »Practicing the Diamond Sutra with Ken McLeod
Original Love with Henry Shukman July 8, 2024 - Host Michael Taft talks with meditation teacher and author Henry Shukman about love, original love vs. original sin, wellbeing intense enough to be called “blessedness,” seeing your original face outside… Read More »Original Love with Henry Shukman
Effortless Nondual Awareness May 21, 2024 - Now, look carefully, right now, where is the awareness coming from? What's its source? It's boundless, timeless–the entire world is arising within it. The entire sense of self is arising… Read More »Effortless Nondual Awareness
Vibrating Awake Space and Freedom April 5, 2024 - reathing right between the eyebrows, breathing in through a hole in the third eye. But this time, instead of relaxation or heart opening, we're feeling wisdom and clarity in the… Read More »Vibrating Awake Space and Freedom
Resting as Awake Awareness February 27, 2024 - This practice in a way is completely trusting the always already wide awake, wide open nature of experience and that there's nothing at all we do that can improve that.… Read More »Resting as Awake Awareness
Meditate Outside the Mind February 23, 2024 - I want you to look with a lot of curiosity, a lot of openness, and just see if you can notice exactly where that's coming from. Where is the stream… Read More »Meditate Outside the Mind
Finding Space and Freedom February 20, 2024 - Good. Now allow awareness to come back into the body, but notice it like new. The feeling of body sensations, how they're just kind of hanging out in that space.… Read More »Finding Space and Freedom
Gratitude for Simply Being January 29, 2024 - Furthermore, you may notice that this expression of space as body and mind doesn't stop there. It radiates outward. This joyous expression of beauty and profundity radiates outward touching all… Read More »Gratitude for Simply Being
Resource for All the World’s Sorrows January 23, 2024 - Tuning into this spaciousness that's available, not only is it primordially pure, fresh and clean, notice that it is welcoming. It doesn't say no to anything. It has this tremendous… Read More »Resource for All the World’s Sorrows
Outside the Vacuum Cave December 6, 2023 - Michael: Awake space is rigpa. Technically, literally, rigpa is just the Tibetan word for knowledge–just regular knowledge–like any kind of knowledge, but when it's used in a Dzogchen context, it… Read More »Outside the Vacuum Cave
A Conversation with Sam Harris December 2, 2023 - Host Michael Taft speaks with author, philosopher, and neuroscientist Sam Harris about aspects of meditation, the fusion of vipassana and nondual practice as the “gold standard” for practitioners, insights into… Read More »A Conversation with Sam Harris