Love - Deconstructing Yourself

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 »

The Power of the Heart with Stephen Snyder January 28, 2026 - Host Michael Taft speaks with Stephen Snyder Sensei about the two “missing” brahmaviharas, Innate Goodness practice, heart wisdom vs. mind wisdom, the magic of the “group heart”, the paradox of… Read More »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Nondual Love with A. H. Almaas October 30, 2023 - Host Michael Taft speaks with teacher, author, and founder of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization A. H. Almaas on the topic of Nondual Love, the qualities of awareness itself, the… Read More »

The Full Moon of Compassion October 17, 2023 - The moon of bodhicitta, the moon of your own deepest already existing primordial purity. And so the light of this moon is reaching out and touching you with a sense… Read More »

What If? January 4, 2023 - Now again, into the sky of liberated utterly joyous, boundless awakeness imagine this fountain again, the fountain of pure, in this case, joy, kindness, belonging, and compassion, love, and picture… Read More »

Giving and Receiving Practice—Compassion Meditation November 9, 2022 - No matter how much thinking arises in this vast, boundless space, the space of awareness is not disturbed at all. It remains perfectly still. No matter how much emotional difficulty… Read More »

Seeing Through Negative Self Talk and Beliefs July 4, 2022 - Remember that because we are already existing fully awakened enlightened beings. You know, Green Taras, Buddhas, Shiva, Shaktis, whatever your belief system, whatever the most sacred, most awake, most compassionate,… Read More »

Mother Buddha Love June 13, 2022 - Now let's imagine this light coming from the sun in front of us, the sun of enlightened wisdom beaming into our hearts. And now it's radiating up and not only… Read More »

Giving and Receiving (Nondual Sun Visualization) December 15, 2021 - https://youtu.be/_7DnaC3HzXA 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… Read More »

Radiating Buddha Love in All Directions August 5, 2021 - https://youtu.be/nNqqbhCLHO4 Nondual Guided Meditation by Michael Taft Emotions are incredibly odd things. So often we take them as given. We see them not only as “the way it is,’ but… Read More »

Love Unveiled with A. H. Almaas October 7, 2020 - Spiritual teacher A. H. Almaas speaks with host Michael Taft about the centrality of love to our spiritual nature, how to tell the difference between emotional love and spiritual love,… Read More »

Brahma Vihara Meditation July 21, 2020 - https://youtu.be/fcNUWKLYOr8 Guided Meditation with Michael Taft In this hour-long guided meditation, Michael Taft leads you through the four Brahma Viharas Meditation, or "Divine Abodes." Read More »

Universal Compassion — Guided (Nondual) Meditation June 5, 2020 - https://youtu.be/nQCp712V6X8 A guided meditation on universal compassion by Michael Taft. Starts almost at the beginning, and runs for one hour. We begin by rousing bodhicitta (the heart and mind of… Read More »

Nondual Metta Practice July 28, 2019 - https://youtu.be/1144QF1_Xh4 Typical metta practice is done from the dualistic position of being the doer of the metta. Here, we contact vast spacious awareness and (in a guided visualization) connect with… Read More »

Roshi Joan Halifax on Standing at the Edge September 3, 2018 - (A transcript of Deconstructing Yourself podcast episode DY 016. Please let me know if there are any errors in the text.) Michael Taft: Welcome to deconstructing yourself, the podcast for… Read More »

Your Kindness Matters June 14, 2018 - by Jessica Graham As spiritual warriors we can run into many traps along the path. One of these is the trap of meaninglessness. It is often triggered after one has… Read More »

Standing at the Edge – with Roshi Joan Halifax March 14, 2018 - Roshi Joan Halifax speaks with host Michael W. Taft about her new book, Standing at the Edge, the shadow sides of altruism, empathy, integrity, respect, engagement, and rays of hope… Read More »

Accepting The Gift of Kindness and Love February 14, 2018 - By Jessica Graham The strongest of us are those that are spiritually strong, and a spiritual warrior is one of vulnerability. - Chogyam Trungpa I recently spent a little over… Read More »

Meditation Pinpoints Difference Between Romantic Love and Compassion February 12, 2014 - These findings won’t appear on any Hallmark card, but romantic love tends to activate the same reward areas of the brain as cocaine, research has shown. Now Yale School of… Read More »

Dying with Dad, Part 7 December 9, 2013 - by Jessica Graham One of the perks of meditation is that it instills compassion in the practitioner. True compassion comes from a place free of expectation, need, or neuroses. It… Read More »

Mindfulness to Increase Your Compassion Bandwidth November 8, 2013 - from The Greater Good Science Center Many of us assume that we only have so much compassion to spare. But research says we can build our capacity to alleviate suffering.… Read More »

Loving-Kindness Meditation and Change October 6, 2013 - By Angela Wilson, MA, RYT for Huffington Post One increasingly popular form of meditation is loving-kindness meditation (LKM), the practice of wishing oneself and others to be happy, content and… Read More »

Loving Lovingkindness May 4, 2013 - by Jessica Graham I’ve recently become of big fan of lovingkindness meditation, or as Shinzen Young calls it, "Focus on Positive." From the beginning of my practice I have been… Read More »

Does Mindfulness Increase Compassion? March 11, 2013 - Last Friday I attended a one-day conference called Practicing Mindfulness & Compassion, put on by Cal's Greater Good Science Center in Berkeley. The purpose of the day was to look… Read More »

Compassion Meditation May Boost Neural Basis of Empathy October 7, 2012 - From ScienceBlog A compassion-based meditation program can significantly improve a person’s ability to read the facial expressions of others, finds a study published by Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. This… Read More »