Note: This is a transcript of the podcast episode that you can listen to here. The introductory material has been elided. Michael: Alright, I’m extremely happy to finally be here recording live with my good… Read More »Am I Mindful Right Now? with guest Kenneth Folk – Transcript
Michael W. Taft leads a 30 minute guided meditation on gratitude. Begins with shamatha on thoughts and feelings of gratitude. Then switches to nondual awareness of gratitude. Although this was originally recorded on Thanksgiving Day… Read More »Thanksgiving Guided Meditation on Gratitude
Hour-long guided meditation by Michael Taft, exploring the inconceivable nature of awareness and experience. Live stream from SFDC, specially transported to Sarvagandhasugandha for one night. Meditation ends around 1:01:00Then dharma talk and Q&A. Meditation steps:–… Read More »The Inconceivable
In this episode, host Michael Taft remixes his map of deconstructing sensory experience, and talks about how to use it to work in nondual traditions. Essentially the idea is to reverse the stack by starting… Read More »Reversing the Stack—A Nondual Practice Map, with Michael Taft
by Michael W. Taft This is a map of deconstructing sensory experience using vipassana. It can help you to understand where you are at with your vipassana practice, and what may be coming next. Note:… Read More »A Map of Deconstructing Sensory Experience with Vipassana
Hour-long guided meditation by Michael Taft. Approx 15 min of deep belly breathing for shamatha, then about 20 min of dropping into nondual awareness, followed by allowing awareness to notice the sense of self. Dharma… Read More »Awareness Seeing the Sense of Self
Guided mindfulness meditation from the surface of awareness to the very source of awareness. Michael guides the group through a meditation descending through (most of) his vipassana map. One hour sit. Starts almost at the… Read More »Meditating Down the Stack
Program begins with a guided nondual mindfulness meditation by Michael Taft lasting 30 minutes. Then Michael introduces special guest Daniel Ingram, and the two take questions from the group at San Francisco Dharma Collective for… Read More »Guest Q&A with Daniel Ingram and Michael Taft
Host Michael Taft speaks with Dream Yoga expert Andrew Holecek about how the dream state (and dreamless sleep) can effect meditation practice. Topics include: the fantasy-filling model of lucid dreaming vs. spiritual awakening; dream yoga,… Read More »What Does Dreaming Have to Do with Meditation? with Andrew Holecek
Hour-long guided nondual meditation. Begins with 15 minutes of deep belly breathing, and mindfulness of body posture. Then allowing awareness to contact external sounds, then body sensations. Finally diving into vast, spacious awareness with no… Read More »Nondual Meditation on Sound, Body, and Awareness
Guided meditation for one hour, followed by dharma talk and Q&A. When we do mindfulness, we are typically doing it from the position of an observer. A person “over here” looking at a body sensation… Read More »Dropping Out of the Machinery of the Mind
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