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
by Michael W. Taft Full-blown awakening means to notice clearly that everything you experience is a brain-generated virtual representation arising in working memory. This is known in various traditions as nondual awakening, understanding the nature… Read More »A Universal Theory of Awakening
by Michael W. Taft The sages of many spiritual traditions have said that the highest state of spiritual awakening is already present in each human being. Total enlightenment has always been there, is there now,… Read More »Do Nothing Meditation
There are many pathways into nondual awareness. Most forms of meditation, if you push them to their farthest limit, will take you into a nondual experience. Which one(s) will work for you is a matter… Read More »Nondual Meditation: One Practice of Total Awareness
Meditation teacher Shinzen Young and host Michael W. Taft talk about the relationship between mindfulness practice (as it is usually defined) and nondual-type practices (or non-practices, if you like), the way that focusing on the… Read More »Feather Light & Paper Thin, with Shinzen Young
by Michael W. Taft Mille viae ducunt homines per saecula Romam When I started meditating in my teens, I believed in Enlightenment. I was going to get to the Big E, which involved having certain… Read More »Follow the Threads — Mindful Awakening
by Michael W. Taft In the context of American spiritual practice nondual traditions and mindfulness traditions appear to be in sharp contrast. Nonduality is often associated with the “doing nothing” schools of meditation, and mindfulness… Read More »Nonduality and Mindfulness — Two Great Traditions that Go Great Together
by Michael W. Taft Nondualism was developed earliest, and was most thoroughly explored, in India. Yet the first Indian scriptures, the Vedas (roughly 1000 BCE) are completely dualistic in their outlook. These Ur-texts of human… Read More »The Nondual Roots of Indian Thought and Religion
Want a quick intro to the entire history of nondualism? Jerry Katz interviewed me about it here. ~ Michael W. Taft If this interests you, you might want to check out my book entitled, Nondualism:… Read More »Nonduality Talk
In November, I spoke about the history of non-dualism at the Science and Non-duality Conference, in San Rafael. I decided to give this talk because although a lot of people talk about nondualism, Advaita, and… Read More »Nondualism: The History of an Idea