Guided Nondual Meditation with Michael Taft Streamed live on November 11, 2021 So let’s begin our meditation now. What I’d like you to do is to set up your posture and remember that in these… Read More »Vipashyana on the Origin, Location, and Destination of Thoughts
Host Michael Taft interviews Tibetan Buddhist meditation teacher and author Andrew Holecek on nondual practice and theory, finding your way back to the true nature of mind, the dangers of getting dropped off in the… Read More »A Conversation on Nonduality with Andrew Holecek
Streamed live on Nov 4, 2021 Guided Nondual Meditation with Michael Taft Let’s begin with our setup. What’s the first part of our setup? The first part of our setup is getting in our meditation… Read More »The Mountain of Awareness
Host Michael Taft speaks with meditation master and neuroscience consultant Shinzen Young on the background and history of Zen Master LinJi (aka Rinzai, in Japanese), the meaning of his famous phrase “the authentic person,” various… Read More »Nondual Teachings of LinJi with Shinzen Young
Host Michael Taft talks with meditation teacher and author Tina Rasmussen about how psychology and meditation practice can work together to help people heal, working with trauma, the importance of heart-based practices such as metta,… Read More »Can People Really Change?, with Tina Rasmussen
Host Michael Taft talks with neuroscientist and meditator Ruben Laukkonen about the phenomenology of the insight experience, how the sequence of deepening meditative practices maps onto the model of predictive processing in the human brain,… Read More »Meditation, Insight, and Predictive Processing with Ruben Laukkonen
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 we’re giving the compassion the healing… Read More »Giving and Receiving (Nondual Sun Visualization)
What can ancient Sanskrit poetry of love and longing teach us about our own deepest spirituality? Join host Michael Taft as he explores this question with professor, author, and teacher Rick Jarow. Further topics include… Read More »Eco-Aesthetics and the Poetry of Longing, with Rick Jarow
Host Michael Taft speaks with Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton about her recent work with the 21 manifestations of the Goddess Tara, some aspects of Green Tara, and especially the role of vision and visualization in… Read More »Vision, Visualization, and Vajrayana, with Chandra Easton
People often talk about effortlessness in meditation, but would you even know what effortless meditation would even like? Let’s try an experiment right now. Hold your dominant hand out where you can see it. Now… Read More »Exploring Effort vs. Non-Effort in Meditation
Zen teacher, author, and poet Henry Shukman talks with host Michael Taft about Mountain Cloud Zen Center, Henry’s series on the Waking Up app, meditation for awakening vs. meditation as a “band aid,” the role… Read More »Talking about Zen Koans, with Henry Shukman
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 even as “the way it’s going… Read More »Radiating Buddha Love in All Directions
Host Michael Taft talks with teacher and author Ken McLeod about his insights into Vajrayana, spiritual practice as “choosing a way to live,” the Tibetan idea of lam khyer, the power of prayer as a… Read More »Vajrayana as a Living Practice with Ken McLeod