Nondual - Deconstructing Yourself

Nondual Freedom within Flow and Openness November 27, 2023 - You can say that awakeness itself, space itself, is breathing; space itself is thinking; space itself is becoming somebody who feels like they are doing something. But never fixating there.… Read More »

The Simplest Thing November 21, 2023 - When we're caught up in thinking, it's like we've put ourselves in a cage. The minute you drop engagement with the thought. Again, the thoughts can still happen, we're not… Read More »

Contacting the Spaciousness Within October 31, 2023 - Now, let this expression, this vibratory, vivacious, exuberant brocade of experience, reflect back on its own stillness, silence, darkness that is both its origin, its destination, and its current existence,… Read More »

Nondual Love with A. H. Almaas October 30, 2023 - Host Michael Taft speaks with teacher, author, and founder of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization A. H. Almaas on the topic of Nondual Love, the qualities of awareness itself, the… Read More »

The Full Moon of Compassion October 17, 2023 - The moon of bodhicitta, the moon of your own deepest already existing primordial purity. And so the light of this moon is reaching out and touching you with a sense… Read More »

Tantra and Embodied Awakening with Christopher Wallis September 29, 2023 - Host Michael W. Taft speaks with Tantra scholar and teacher Christopher Wallis about the word "enlightenment" in English and the words in Sanskrit it is typically the translation for; the… Read More »

What Is Noticing? August 27, 2023 - It's this radiant, vibrant display in awareness rippling with color, light, sound, feeling, energy and yet also oddly unfindable or unlocatable and even what knows it is unknown. Now when… Read More »

Reverse Meditation with Andrew Holecek August 23, 2023 - Join host Michael Taft as he speaks with meditation teacher and author Andrew Holecek about "reverse meditation," the practice of using difficult experiences as the focus of our meditation, how… Read More »

The Wisdom and Compassion of Avalokiteshvara June 12, 2023 - ow breathing in, take the image of Avalokiteshvara into your heart. Breathe Avalokiteshvara directly into your own heart where the image plugs in and begins to radiate powerfully from your… Read More »

Transcript of Talking about Zen Koans, with Henry Shukman June 8, 2023 - Henry Shukman is a teacher in the Sanbo Zen lineage and is the Guiding Teacher of Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Henry is an award-winning poet… Read More »

Transcript of Exploring Nondual Shaiva Tantra, with Christopher Wallis June 1, 2023 - antra is a spiritual movement, which began in the five hundreds or the sixth century, in our Western calendar, and spread throughout all of South Asia, initially, as well as… Read More »

Everything in It’s Right Place Meditation May 29, 2023 - Allowing each in-breath to be nurturing, each out-breath to return the mind to space, absolutely vast, open, uncongealed space. If it wants to re-congeal, okay, it can happen on the… Read More »

The Tree of Earth and Sky May 13, 2023 - And so Earth energy is rising up spreading out through the trunk and branches and leaves of the tree. This ancient, grounded, humble energy that is paradoxically both humble and… Read More »

Transcript of: A Few Stray Points about Nonduality, with Jake Orthwein May 1, 2023 - From the Deconstructing Yourself Podcast Here's the original audio recording: A Few Stray Points about Nonduality with Jake Orthwein. Michael Taft: Hello and welcome to Deconstructing Yourself, the podcast for… Read More »

Just Ripples in the Infinite Ocean of Awareness April 26, 2023 - When awareness recognizes itself, recognizes what it's always been it feels a kind of joy. It's just the joy of openness, the joy of no constriction, and also the joy… Read More »

A Few Stray Points about Nonduality with Jake Orthwein. April 17, 2023 - Michael Taft is interviewed by Jake Orthwein about the various kinds of nonduality, as well as the crucial distinction between the two main types of nonduality. Read More »

Tantric Fearlessness Challenge March 29, 2023 - Dig into the stuff you're really trying to avoid with this guided nondual meditation. Read More »

Exploring Nondual Shaiva Tantra with Christopher Wallis March 19, 2023 - Join host Michael Taft as he talks with Tantrik scholar and practitioner Christopher Wallis about the tradition of Nondual Shaiva Tantra, the full void pregnant with possibilities, savoring the transcendent… Read More »

The Burning Fire of Awareness February 1, 2023 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28nUgb_gKmA Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft Okay, so let's begin. I want you to simply check in with yourself, ask yourself the question; what's it like to be me… Read More »

The Freedom of Groundlessness January 15, 2023 - https://youtu.be/HCEjl410Vd4 Nondual Meditation with Michael Taft Meditation Wow, got a lot of people here tonight. That's great. So let's begin simply by checking in, not meditating, not doing anything special,… Read More »

What If? January 4, 2023 - Now again, into the sky of liberated utterly joyous, boundless awakeness imagine this fountain again, the fountain of pure, in this case, joy, kindness, belonging, and compassion, love, and picture… Read More »

Meditation and the Bayesian Brain with Shamil Chandaria. December 17, 2022 - Host Michael Taft talks with philanthropist, serial entrepreneur, technologist, and meditator Dr. Shamil Chandaria about predictive processing as it relates to meditation, our phenomenal self model, recognizing our own fabrication… Read More »

The Boundless Sky of the Mind November 21, 2022 - And the image of the goddess and the image of the moon dissolve into the sky and we simply rest as awakened mind, liberated mind now, simply open sky. We're… Read More »

Resting as Wakefulness Itself October 19, 2022 - Nothing to do at all. Just resting in being that's always been there already completely perfect. Rest in this wakefulness you already always are. This vast sky of boundless, timeless… Read More »

Awareness Is Not a Special State September 19, 2022 - Awareness is prior to you, it's prior to thoughts, it's prior to feelings, it's prior even to the world. It's just there and it's not a special thing, it's not… Read More »

Resting Naturally in What You Always Already Are September 5, 2022 - It's funny, you don't really have to pretend or imagine that you are like the sky because that is the actual nature of your own awareness, your own mind. Already,… Read More »

Effortless Resting in the Vast Space of Awareness August 30, 2022 - We rest as bright, clear, awake awareness and that we can rest in. And when we're resting as awareness, awareness is not a tennis shoe and a dryer, it's a… Read More »

Meditating on the Stream of Thought August 16, 2022 - Sometimes when we're just resting as awareness, doing nothing, we want it to be a certain way, we want it to be peaceful. But awareness itself is always peaceful. We… Read More »

Letting Go, Doing Nothing August 10, 2022 - Awareness is already effortlessly aware. Awareness has no location so it can't be over here looking at something over there. Or to put it in another way, to say it… Read More »

Five Elements Meditation July 28, 2022 - Okay. Good, and now just for a moment, like one minute, I want you to just open up to the already existing naturally present vast spaciousness of your own awareness.… Read More »

Like Wind in a Vast, Empty Sky July 19, 2022 - This is nondual or essence tradition meditation. Some of these traditions include the Tibetan traditions of Dzogchen and Mahamudra. There's Hindu traditions of Advaita Vedanta and also nondual Shaiva Tantra.… Read More »

Seeing Through Negative Self Talk and Beliefs July 4, 2022 - Remember that because we are already existing fully awakened enlightened beings. You know, Green Taras, Buddhas, Shiva, Shaktis, whatever your belief system, whatever the most sacred, most awake, most compassionate,… Read More »

Central Channel Mandala Visualization June 22, 2022 - In this place there's nothing to do, there's nothing to change, everything is just right. Just rest into, rest as, vast, spacious awareness. Already awake, totally clear, utterly complete. Nothing… Read More »

How to Do Inquiry Practice June 9, 2022 - If you're trying to figure it out, stop doing that. If you think you've solved it, keep looking. Just keep looking in that place or listening or feeling or whatever.… Read More »

Resting in Natural Awareness without Effort June 3, 2022 - https://youtu.be/imXuss8Csio Guided Nondual Meditation by Michael Taft Streamed live on Feb 3, 2022 So again, remove your glasses, get in your meditation posture, whatever that might be. I've gone over… Read More »

Inquiry Practice May 25, 2022 - What is awareness? What is awareness? We could even ask what is aware? Look now, look in your own experience. Feel, notice what is aware? Read More »

Taking the Mind as Path May 21, 2022 - Remain uninvolved with anything. Awareness is bright and clear. It's very very awake. It's also vast. It's spacious. It's open. It's at ease. It's restful. There's a sense of space,… Read More »

Equanimity Amidst Chaos May 18, 2022 - For so long you've thought you are the thoughts and feelings of the ripples on the surface, but if you're anything at all you are this deep ocean of awareness… Read More »

Effortless Awareness that is Always Present May 16, 2022 - There's nothing to change. There's nothing to fix. There's nothing to control. There's nothing to manipulate. There's nothing to make better. There's nothing wrong at all. There's nothing at all… Read More »

Jailbreak! Escape the Cage of Your Mind May 10, 2022 - We're bringing kindness, and caring, and a sense of dignity, and equality to even all the animals on the earth, and every river, and every stream, and every rock, and… Read More »

Short Shamatha Smorgasbord May 1, 2022 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEJhWCSo1RQ Guided Nondual Meditation with Michael Taft Streamed live Dec 3, 2021 So, let's begin. We're not going to do most of our usual lead-in today. I just want you… Read More »

Vipashyana on the Origin, Location, and Destination of Thoughts April 26, 2022 - https://youtu.be/S7_SeJOLt2M Guided Nondual Meditation with Michael Taft Streamed live on November 11, 2021 So let's begin our meditation now. What I'd like you to do is to set up your… Read More »

A Conversation on Nonduality with Andrew Holecek April 25, 2022 - Host Michael Taft interviews Tibetan Buddhist meditation teacher and author Andrew Holecek on nondual practice and theory, finding your way back to the true nature of mind, the dangers of… Read More »

The Mountain of Awareness April 21, 2022 - https://youtu.be/YcLw1o0YBHY Streamed live on Nov 4, 2021 Guided Nondual Meditation with Michael Taft Let's begin with our setup. What's the first part of our setup? The first part of our… Read More »

Nondual Teachings of LinJi with Shinzen Young March 14, 2022 - Host Michael Taft speaks with meditation master and neuroscience consultant Shinzen Young on the background and history of Zen Master LinJi (aka Rinzai, in Japanese), the meaning of his famous… Read More »

Exploring Effort vs. Non-Effort in Meditation October 6, 2021 - https://youtu.be/ytV3jsSYOaM 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… Read More »

Talking about Zen Koans, with Henry Shukman August 18, 2021 - Zen teacher, author, and poet Henry Shukman talks with host Michael Taft about Mountain Cloud Zen Center, Henry’s series on the Waking Up app, meditation for awakening vs. meditation as… Read More »

Radiating Buddha Love in All Directions August 5, 2021 - https://youtu.be/nNqqbhCLHO4 Nondual Guided Meditation by Michael Taft Emotions are incredibly odd things. So often we take them as given. We see them not only as “the way it is,’ but… Read More »

Emptiness of All Arisings July 10, 2021 - https://youtu.be/gXLMfoaLhO4 Nondual guided meditation with Michael Taft Emptiness does not mean something doesn't exist. Even the Buddha refused to say that emptiness means non-existence. Rather, emptiness is the recognition that… Read More »

Dimensions of Nonduality, with Tina Rasmussen June 30, 2021 - Host Michael Taft talks with meditation teacher and author Tina Rasmussen about ways to understand nondual awareness and the progress of nondual meditation, including her own unique comparison between the… Read More »