Host Michael Taft talks with meditation coach Peter McEwen about devotion in meditation practice, the need for stability in groundlessness, the ontological status of deities, common failure modes of practice, how to handle formless panic,… Read More »Talking about Deity Yoga with Peter McEwen
Good. Continuing to come from the core, to come from the source, to come from radiant awakeness itself, the unmanifest, the infinitely, boundlessly, spacious, notice that this energy of awakeness is loving and joyous, it’s… Read More »Coming from the Source of Everything
Host Michael Taft continues his conversation with with Andrew Holecek about the transformative practice of Dark Retreat; the reasons behind the recent surge of interest in darkness practices; its relationship to the feminine principle and… Read More »Talking about Dark Retreat, Part 2 with Andrew Holecek
Now, in this place of vast, open, awareness, ask yourself this question: What is peace? Don’t answer the question with the machinery of your thinking, or with a memory or some kind of cleverness. Look… Read More »Inquiry into the Open Sky
Then, notice the room around you, the sights, the sounds, everything. That’s a lot of movement and color, and is that really separate from awareness? Is it like awareness is aware of that from some… Read More »Being the Stillness
So the ego is not something that needs to go away. It’s, I don’t even think, unless you’re alone all the time, I don’t even think it, um, can go away unless you just kind… Read More »The Ego and Nondual Meditation
Now, without engaging ideas at all, and noticing this wide open wide awake spacious, boundaryless, vibratory body and mind. Just notice directly what you notice when I ask you to ask yourself the question, what… Read More »Being Effulgent Spaciousness
Host Michael Taft talks with author David Godman about the sage Ramana Maharshi and his nondual view of the world, whether he considered taking sannyasa (renunciation) to be necessary to achieve awakening, the power of… Read More »A Conversation with David Godman
When we’re outside the thinking mind, it’s easy to just sit with it. It just stays there, shining in our energy field, shining in our presence, shining in the body. It’s very stable, beautiful. Again,… Read More »Feel the Love Outside the Mind
Now, notice something very interesting. From the place of being the stillness that knows, is the energy of the body—this tingly, dancing energy of feeling alive, is that really separate? It’s different, it’s in motion,… Read More »Nondual Meditation – Being the Stillness
Host Michael Taft speaks with Andrew Holecek about the practice of Dark Retreat, how the mind “falls into itself,” light as obfuscator, the revelation of the construction of reality, the power—and very real dangers—of Dark… Read More »Talking about Dark Retreat with Andrew Holecek
Notice that each time an object fades, a perception vanishes, dissolves, relaxes, lets go, reveals its emptiness, shows its dream-like nature. Each time that happens, there is a similar relief, a similar letting go, kind… Read More »Dropping the Ultra Ball
Host Michael Taft speaks with meditation teacher, clinical psychologist, and author Dr. Tucker Peck about the the difference between developing a clear understanding of how your psychology works and feeling just how you want to… Read More »Sanity and Sainthood with Dr. Tucker Peck