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
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
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft Mental imagery is a major component of thinking for a human being. However, How much of this mental imagery is available to conscious introspection varies widely between individuals. Some… Read More »Emptiness of Mental Imagery
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft One of the core practices of the nondual traditions of Buddhism (also known as “essence” or “direct path” traditions) is vipashyana. This is the Sanskrit version of the word… Read More »Exploring Emptiness in the Breath
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft Once we establish the view of vast spacious awareness, we can notice that awareness is already aware. There’s nothing you need to do to make it more aware. Notice… Read More »Being Present with Awareness of Breathing
Host Michael Taft speaks with science journalist, author, and podcaster David McRaney about how people do (and do not) change their minds, how brains form their view of reality, conspiracy theory, the method of “technique… Read More »Talking with People about Things, with David McRaney
Nondual Guided Meditation by Michael Taft 1:00 – Shamatha31:05 – Vipashyana on perception of various content: sounds, emotions, thoughts. Particularly noticing their vanishing.1:01:00 – Dharma talk and Q&A Contribute to making more of these nondual… Read More »Nondual Vipashyana on the Vanishing of Perceptions
One-hour guided nondual meditation by Michael Taft Meditation sequence:1:30 – Posture guidance3:57 – Rousing bodhicitta5:17 – Shamatha with an object (breath) and guided relaxation21:14 – Dissolving on the outbreath40:47 – Shamatha without an object50:43 –… Read More »Just Look (Nondual Investigation)
One-hour nondual guided meditation with Michael Taft. Most people think of themselves as having awareness, which is located in a brain, which is inside a body, which is inside the world. While this works well… Read More »Resting Awareness in the Heart
Host Michael Taft speaks with meditation teacher Catherine McGee about Soulmaking Dharma; her journey into meditation practice; using the word “soul” in a Buddhist context; working with the energy body; connecting with the imaginal in… Read More »Soulmaking Dharma with Catherine McGee
Guided Meditation with Michael Taft In this hour-long guided meditation, Michael Taft leads you through the four Brahma Viharas Meditation, or “Divine Abodes.”
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft One hour meditation: 2:58 – Meditation begins (shamatha with an object)17:45 – Dissolving with the Out Breath32:11 – Dropping the Ball (i.e. shamatha without an object)47:10 – Cut through… Read More »Using Emptiness to Cut Through
Guided Meditation by Michael Taft Lasts for one hour. Followed by dharma talk and Q&A. Behind the apparent confusion and hubbub of sensory experience—including thoughts, feelings, body sensations, sight, sound, smell, taste, and everything else—there… Read More »Silence, Stillness (Nondual)