The mandala (the word is Sanskrit for “circle”) is an ancient symbol of wholeness. Virtually every culture worldwide has at some point used a mandala to illustrate some aspect of completeness or unity. The Vajrayana… Read More »Learning the Mandala Visualization
Nondual Guided Meditation by Michael Taft The average person spends almost their entire waking adult life trapped inside the constructs of thoughts and the personality. We believe that we are our thoughts; we believe that… Read More »Spacious Timeless Stillness Outside Thought and Ego
Host Michael Taft speaks with spiritual teacher and author Thomas Hübl about trauma and healing, aspects of collective and cultural trauma, meditation, spirituality, and much more. Thomas Hübl is a contemporary mystic, international spiritual teacher,… Read More »Meditation and Healing Trauma with Thomas Hübl
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft The title is a bit of a misnomer. In the final analysis, awareness is not centered anywhere in particular. It is either “centered” everywhere at once or nowhere at… Read More »Vast Spacious Awareness Centered in the Belly
Host Michael Taft speaks with meditation teacher and shamanic practitioner Spring Washam about the “dharma of Harriet Tubman,” the inner vs. the outer journey of finding liberation, how the “meditation bubble” can actually block spiritual… Read More »A Conversation with Spring Washam
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft The conscious thinking mind is excellent and solving certain types of problems, or understanding things in certain contexts. How can I fix my sink? What is the solution to… Read More »Nondual Inquiry Practice
In this eight-part series, dharma teachers Michael Owens and Michael Taft present the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra (The Advice of Vimalakirti) for the San Francisco Dharma Collective. In each of the eight parts, Michael Owens will… Read More »Meditating with Vimalakirti
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft According to Buddhist cosmology, the world of existence is divided into six types of beings. As one who is trapped in Samsara (i.e. ‘the world”) you can be reborn… Read More »Meditating on the Six Realms of Existence
From this episode of the Deconstructing Yourself podcast Transcribed by Tanner Holman Michael: Welcome to Deconstructing Yourself, the podcast for metamodern mutants interested in meditation, hardcore dharma, emptiness, Zen poetics, awakening, metasystematicity, and much, much… Read More »Evolving Ground with Rin’dzin Pamo and Jared Janes – Transcription
Guided Meditation with Michael Taft One hour guided meditation, followed by a dharma talk and Q&A. In all the meditations from Michael (labeled “nondual”) there is a structure behind what we are doing. First there… Read More »Nondual Vipashyana on Experience Arising
Depth Psychologist Steve Aizenstat speaks with host Michael Taft about dreams, the living image of dreams and their innate intelligence, the healing and creative power of the deep imagination; how dreams relate to meditation and… Read More »Dreams and the Spiritual Imagination, with Steve Aizenstat
Guided nondual meditation with Michael Taft In this one-of-a-kind guided nondual meditation, Michael Taft gives pointing out instructions. As the name suggests, the teacher is “pointing out” the nondual state to the student—showing them where… Read More »Pointing Out Instructions
Guided Vajrayana Meditation with Michael Taft A mandala is a circular or square diagram used in meditation.In this meditation, we begin with the usual two-part opening: shamatha with an object shamatha without an object Then… Read More »Mandala Meditation