Nondual Guided Meditation by Michael Taft Lots of you have been highly trained in vipassana meditation. Vipassana is a word in Pali (a dead language used only in ancient Buddhist scriptures) which means “investigation” or… Read More »How to Do Nondual Vipashyana
Shinzen Young talks with host Michael Taft about his new ideas around how we can apply the systematic mindset of mindfulness meditation to the many challenges of human communication and miscommunication. Topics include the coming… Read More »Meditation and Communication with Shinzen Young
Host Michael Taft talks about the phenomenon of spiritual bypassing, what it is, what it means for our practice, and whether it is as big of an issue as many seem to think, as well… Read More »Spiritual Bypassing and the Spiritual Friend
The mandala (the word is Sanskrit for “circle”) is an ancient symbol of wholeness. Virtually every culture worldwide has at some point used a mandala to illustrate some aspect of completeness or unity. The Vajrayana… Read More »Learning the Mandala Visualization
Nondual Guided Meditation by Michael Taft The average person spends almost their entire waking adult life trapped inside the constructs of thoughts and the personality. We believe that we are our thoughts; we believe that… Read More »Spacious Timeless Stillness Outside Thought and Ego
Host Michael Taft speaks with spiritual teacher and author Thomas Hübl about trauma and healing, aspects of collective and cultural trauma, meditation, spirituality, and much more. Thomas Hübl is a contemporary mystic, international spiritual teacher,… Read More »Meditation and Healing Trauma with Thomas Hübl
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft The title is a bit of a misnomer. In the final analysis, awareness is not centered anywhere in particular. It is either “centered” everywhere at once or nowhere at… Read More »Vast Spacious Awareness Centered in the Belly
Host Michael Taft speaks with meditation teacher and shamanic practitioner Spring Washam about the “dharma of Harriet Tubman,” the inner vs. the outer journey of finding liberation, how the “meditation bubble” can actually block spiritual… Read More »A Conversation with Spring Washam
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft Mental imagery is a major component of thinking for a human being. However, How much of this mental imagery is available to conscious introspection varies widely between individuals. Some… Read More »Emptiness of Mental Imagery
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft One of the core practices of the nondual traditions of Buddhism (also known as “essence” or “direct path” traditions) is vipashyana. This is the Sanskrit version of the word… Read More »Exploring Emptiness in the Breath
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft Once we establish the view of vast spacious awareness, we can notice that awareness is already aware. There’s nothing you need to do to make it more aware. Notice… Read More »Being Present with Awareness of Breathing
Host Michael Taft speaks with science journalist, author, and podcaster David McRaney about how people do (and do not) change their minds, how brains form their view of reality, conspiracy theory, the method of “technique… Read More »Talking with People about Things, with David McRaney
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