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
From this episode of the Deconstructing Yourself podcast Transcribed by Tanner Holman Michael: Welcome to Deconstructing Yourself, the podcast for metamodern mutants interested in meditation, hardcore dharma, emptiness, Zen poetics, awakening, metasystematicity, and much, much… Read More »Evolving Ground with Rin’dzin Pamo and Jared Janes – Transcription
Guided Meditation with Michael Taft One hour guided meditation, followed by a dharma talk and Q&A. In all the meditations from Michael (labeled “nondual”) there is a structure behind what we are doing. First there… Read More »Nondual Vipashyana on Experience Arising
Depth Psychologist Steve Aizenstat speaks with host Michael Taft about dreams, the living image of dreams and their innate intelligence, the healing and creative power of the deep imagination; how dreams relate to meditation and… Read More »Dreams and the Spiritual Imagination, with Steve Aizenstat
Guided nondual meditation with Michael Taft In this one-of-a-kind guided nondual meditation, Michael Taft gives pointing out instructions. As the name suggests, the teacher is “pointing out” the nondual state to the student—showing them where… Read More »Pointing Out Instructions
Guided Vajrayana Meditation with Michael Taft A mandala is a circular or square diagram used in meditation.In this meditation, we begin with the usual two-part opening: shamatha with an object shamatha without an object Then… Read More »Mandala Meditation
Guided meditation by Michael Taft After the one-hour guided meditation, there is a dharma talk and Q&A. About this meditation. Many people feel that they have a “center of awareness,” which is the place that… Read More »Three Centers of Awareness