Guided Meditation Videos on Nondual Awareness by Michael Taft

Here is a series of twenty three meditations on what I call nondual awareness, or what I here call vast, spacious awareness. If you want to learn the basics of nondual meditation, just do these twenty three guided meditations in order, and listen to the talks afterwards.

Most of the meditations are an hour long.

If you want to learn more about nonduality, you can start here.

These nondual meditations were streamed live from my class at the San Francisco Dharma Collective. The sound is sometimes quiet or has glitches because of the live streaming. As the weeks go by, we slowly solve some of the issues, so the volume gets louder and the glitches fewer.

These videos are all from before the pandemic, when we were meeting in person. Since then, I’ve been broadcasting my pirate nondual signal from my meditation bunker in an undisclosed location. If you want to catch up with the latest videos (there are at least 75 more than appear on this page), check this out.

About Nonduality

What does it mean for a meditation to be “nondual”? In the simplest way of describing it, it means that we are dropping the sense of being an observer. In other words, instead of me over here, observing that thing over there—which is a spatial relationship constructed in the mind—we allow space to collapse and let go of any sense of being an observer.

What happens is pretty amazing. When the observer vanishes, so does the sense of the object-ness of the thing being observed. To put it another way, when the self is not a thing, no thing else is a thing either.

So instead of instead of me over here, observing that thing over there, there is just “observing” happening. It’s a very distinct and unusual type of experience at first. As we learn to let go of dualistic meditation, and drop deeper and deeper into nonduality, we realize that—rather than being something strange and rare—it is actually the fundamental ground of consciousness.

Watch these videos and do all the meditation to get a sense of this.

Befriending Your Mind

Let Go of Grasping

Discovering Sky-like Mind

The World Is Inside You

Awareness Has No Center

Directly Investigating Awareness

Allowing Vast, Open Awareness to Do Vipassana

Three Vehicle Investigation

Dissolving into Vast Spacious Awareness

Awareness Aware of Awareness

Mahamudra Vipashyana on the Moving Mind

Nondual Metta Practice

The World as Dream

The Fox Wedding

Vanishings into the Void

The Lion’s Roar

Turning the World Inside Out

Dropping Out of the Machinery of the Mind

Meditating Down the Stack

Awareness Seeing the Sense of Self

The Inconceivable

Emptiness, Emptiness

Emptiness of Thought and Feeling

Contacting Nonduality

Having done all of these meditations diligently, you will have a much better sense of what is meant by nondual awareness, and how to begin to contact it.

Even if you are deeply involved in vipassana practice, I recommend doing some of these nondual awareness meditation practices every once in a while to open things up, loosen your mind a bit, shake out the dust and cobwebs, and freshen things up.

What do I mean by “vast, spacious awareness”? Nothing other than nondual awareness, buddha nature, tathagatagarbha, rigpa, the ground of being.

There are jillions more of these nondual meditations presented one-by-one on the blog page of this site. Please feel free to use them, and let me know about your experience.

Also, if you enjoy these meditations, feel free to contribute to me making more of them here: Michael Taft on Patreon

photo of cranes by Michael Taft