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 and visualization are legitimate samadhi… Read More »Michael Taft Interviewed by Pranab
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 the Heart Sutra, learning to… Read More »The Power of the Heart with Stephen Snyder
Michael Taft talks with Nate Green of the Waking Up app about Michael’s new series, entitled Nondual Awakening.
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 the cell. So, keep coming… Read More »Deep Relaxation into Nondual Openness
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, on the out-breath, instead of… Read More »Nondual Energy in the Central Channel
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 is it that is doing… Read More »Awake to Your Own Awakeness
Join host Michael Taft as he talks with Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Anya Foxen about the wild history of Kundalini—from it’s ancient Tantric roots to modern global yoga culture—including subtle-body maps, spontaneous awakenings, and so-called “Kundalini… Read More »Chasing the Serpent’s Tail with Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Anya Foxen
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 like the ocean, because it’s… Read More »Pointing Out through Metaphor
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 way, we notice they are… Read More »The Paradox of Wholeness
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 thing there to hold onto.… Read More »Your Awakened Nature Is Right There
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, abyss. A vast groundlessness that… Read More »Finding the Stillness and Peace of Who You Really Are
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 just do it a little… Read More »Brahmaviharas and Tonglen
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 with it, psychedelics and meditation… Read More »Nonduality and the Ego with Jake Orthwein