Michael Taft explains his system of understanding meditation experience. With guided meditations. In the third session of this class, we learn more about contacting sensory experience in greater and greater detail—particularly diving deeply into impermanence… Read More »Deconstructing Sensory Experience & Nondual Practice, with Michael Taft—Part 3
Hourlong nondual guided meditation by Michael W. Taft at the San Francisco Dharma Collective. 0- 15 min – shamatha (relaxed focus) 15-30 min – resting in awareness 30 – 60 – Noticing the Vedanan (pleasant… Read More »Contacting Vedana
One hour guided nondual meditation by Michael Taft. When we make a sensory experience into an object, we simultaneously make ourselves into an object, too. Conversely, when we notice the emptiness of phenomena, we notice… Read More »Emptiness of Phenomena; Emptiness of Self
Hour long guided nondual meditation by Michael Taft. – First 15 minutes: shamatha (focused relaxation) meditation. – Next effortlessly contacting the natural mind (i.e. “dropping the ball”). – Awareness noticing phenomena arising, without location, direction,… Read More »Experience without Separation
Deconstructing Sensory Experience & Nondual Practice In this first class of a four part series, Michael W. Taft discusses his model or map of sensory experience. Here he introduces the topic, then covers Levels One… Read More »Hacking the Stack, Part 1
Evan Thompson discusses his new book, “Why I Am Not a Buddhist” with host Michael Taft. Topics include the myth of Buddhist exceptionalism, how Buddhist modernism presented a false picture of Buddhism as a value-neutral… Read More »Questioning Assumptions about Buddhism, with Evan Thompson
Nondual teacher and psychotherapist John Prendergast speaks with host Michael Taft about the heart area as an opening to infinite space, contacting the “dark matrix” of the ground, the body as a vibrant expression of… Read More »The Nondual Heart, with John Prendergast
Guided nondual meditation by Michael Taft at the San Francisco Dharma Collective. Meditation lasts 1 hour, followed by dharma talk and questions. When we allow awareness to simply and directly notice body sensations—without the tension… Read More »Pure Embodied Awareness
Nondual teacher and psychotherapist Loch Kelly speaks with host Michael Taft about what nondualism is, schools of effort vs. non-effort (and those in between), the five foundations of effortless mindfulness, awake awareness and rigpa, stabilizing… Read More »Nonduality and Awake Awareness, with Loch Kelly
Guided nondual meditation by Michael Taft at San Francisco Dharma Collective. Meditation begins almost right away, and lasts for one hour. Followed by Q&A with the sangha. Special guest: Rin’dzin Pamo (who was present but… Read More »Phenomena are Made of Awareness Itself
The following is a transcript of this podcast episode: Transcript Introduction: Welcome to Deconstructing Yourself, the podcast for modern mutants interested in meditation, awakening, emptiness, post-, non-, and un-Buddhism, hardcore Dharma, the Bodhisattva Vajrapāṇi, and… Read More »Reversing the Stack—A Nondual Practice Map—Transcript
Guided nondual meditation by Michael Taft at the San Francisco Dharma Collective.Meditation starts almost at the beginning, and lasts for one hour. Then a dharma talk followed by Q&A. The “one real miracle” referred to… Read More »The One Real Miracle
Host Michael Taft speaks with Michael Owens, a Buddhist teacher and author, about being a monk in Taiwan, Buddhist sutras as portals to alternate realities, understanding dependent origination, the nondual ground and extreme psychedelia of… Read More »Meditating with Buddhist Sutras, with Michael Owens