In this episode, host Michael Taft shares a map of deconstructing sensory experience. This is intended to help orient you to your vipassana meditation practice; helping you to understand where you’re at, where you’re going,… Read More »Deconstructing Sensory Experience, with Michael Taft
A Transcript of the Podcast Interview You can listen to the original interview here. Michael: Rin’dzin, welcome to the Deconstructing Yourself podcast. Rin’dzin: Hi Michael, it’s great to be here, thanks for inviting me. Michael:… Read More »Vajrayana, Engineering, and Jiu Jitsu, with Rin’dzin Pamo
Nondual guided meditation lasting one hour. Includes several inquiry questions. At 1:02:30 the dharma talk begins, centering on the story of the lion cub who thought he was a lamb. Ends with the lion’s roar… Read More »The Lion’s Roar
Guided meditation lasting approximately one hour, focused on noticing how all sensory phenomena go from being solid objects, to vibratory activities, to vast spacious awareness. Self and world dissolve into the void. 1:01:00 – Dharma… Read More »Vanishings into the Void
A guided meditation led by Michael Taft. Meditation starts at the beginning and lasts for about one hour. Followed by dharma talk and Q&A. (Warning: the audio quality on this video has some bad spots.)… Read More »The World as Dream
Host Michael Taft speaks with Vajrayana teacher Rin’dzin Pamo about Vajrayana meditation practice currently, adapting practices for our times, their practice of The Mind Illuminated, the role of the guru in practice, how meditation practice… Read More »Vajrayana, Engineering, and Jiu Jitsu, with Rin’dzin Pamo
Guided meditation by Michael Taft, lasting approx one hour. Begins with a long session of deep, belly breathing (about 15 min). Then we contact vast, spacious awareness, going very deeply into it. We then center… Read More »The Fox Wedding
Why Metadharma? is an unusual episode of the Deconstructing Yourself podcast, in that it’s Part 2 of a joint interview between Vince and Michael Taft. Part 1 appeared on the Buddhist Geeks podcast recently, and… Read More »Why Metadharma?, Pt. 2, with Vincent Horn
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 the source of everything. It is… Read More »Nondual Metta Practice
Sometimes the best meditation practice is simply to surrender. This post is about how to let go. For many years, I took my meditation practice very seriously. I dedicated a significant portion of my life… Read More »Just Let Go — Surrender Everything in Meditation
Michael Taft teaches this guided meditation called Mahamudra Vipshyana on the Moving Mind. Once we contact vast, spacious awareness clearly, it is possible to observe the arising of thoughts from this (non)perspective. We witness thoughts… Read More »Mahamudra Vipshyana on the Moving Mind – Guided Meditation
Host Michael Taft speaks with clinical psychologist and life coach, Douglas Tataryn, Ph.D. about meditation and psychology. Topics include his work with meditation teachers such as Culadasa, the “wake up, clean up, grow up, and… Read More »Meditation, Emotions, and the Bio-Emotive Framework with Douglas Tataryn
One hour guided meditation by Michael Taft on contacting vast, spacious awareness. Ends at 1:00:54 Then dharma talk and Q&A. This is a variation on the age-old technique created by Dogen (1200–1253 c.e.) called eko… Read More »Awareness Aware of Awareness