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
Note: This is a transcript of the podcast episode that you can listen to here. The introductory material has been elided. Michael: Alright, I’m extremely happy to finally be here recording live with my good… Read More »Am I Mindful Right Now? with guest Kenneth Folk – Transcript
In this episode, host Michael Taft remixes his map of deconstructing sensory experience, and talks about how to use it to work in nondual traditions. Essentially the idea is to reverse the stack by starting… Read More »Reversing the Stack—A Nondual Practice Map, with Michael Taft
by Michael W. Taft This is a map of deconstructing sensory experience using vipassana. It can help you to understand where you are at with your vipassana practice, and what may be coming next. Note:… Read More »A Map of Deconstructing Sensory Experience with Vipassana
Host Michael Taft speaks with Dream Yoga expert Andrew Holecek about how the dream state (and dreamless sleep) can effect meditation practice. Topics include: the fantasy-filling model of lucid dreaming vs. spiritual awakening; dream yoga,… Read More »What Does Dreaming Have to Do with Meditation? with Andrew Holecek
In this episode, host Michael Taft shares a map of deconstructing sensory experience. This is intended to help orient you to your vipassana meditation practice; helping you to understand where you’re at, where you’re going,… Read More »Deconstructing Sensory Experience, with Michael Taft
Host Michael Taft speaks with Vajrayana teacher Rin’dzin Pamo about Vajrayana meditation practice currently, adapting practices for our times, their practice of The Mind Illuminated, the role of the guru in practice, how meditation practice… Read More »Vajrayana, Engineering, and Jiu Jitsu, with Rin’dzin Pamo
Why Metadharma? is an unusual episode of the Deconstructing Yourself podcast, in that it’s Part 2 of a joint interview between Vince and Michael Taft. Part 1 appeared on the Buddhist Geeks podcast recently, and… Read More »Why Metadharma?, Pt. 2, with Vincent Horn
Host Michael Taft speaks with clinical psychologist and life coach, Douglas Tataryn, Ph.D. about meditation and psychology. Topics include his work with meditation teachers such as Culadasa, the “wake up, clean up, grow up, and… Read More »Meditation, Emotions, and the Bio-Emotive Framework with Douglas Tataryn
Host Michael Taft speaks with Loch Kelly on nondual practices, contemporary forms of ancient awareness techniques, dzogchen, mahamudra, advaita, the role of psychotherapy in awakening, the need—or not—for a guru, open-hearted awareness, internal family systems… Read More »Loch Kelly on Awareness, Freedom, and Effortless Mindfulness
In this special episode, Culadasa talks about the domains of meditation and psychotherapy, where their areas of effectiveness overlap and where they don’t. He also shares a powerful personal story of his own emotional processing… Read More »Culadasa on Meditation and Therapy
Host Michael W. Taft speaks with bestselling author and meditation teacher Rick Hanson about how to maintain resilience in the face of the coming potential collapse of civilization, the problem with agriculture, meditation methods to… Read More »Meditation for the End of Civilization, with Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
Author and meditation teacher Daniel Ingram speaks with host Michael W. Taft about how the Fire Kasina practice can be used as an insight practice. Subjects include: the background of kasina practice in the Thervada… Read More »The Liberating Practice of the Fire Kasina – with Daniel Ingram