Good. Now notice what’s underneath the stillness or inside the stillness. There is no ground there at all. It’s not that it’s nothing, because it’s not nothing, but there’s no thing there to hold onto.… Read More »Your Awakened Nature Is Right There
One-hour nondual guided meditation with Michael Taft. Most people think of themselves as having awareness, which is located in a brain, which is inside a body, which is inside the world. While this works well… Read More »Resting Awareness in the Heart
< Writer, translator, teacher, and business consultant, Ken McLeod speaks with host Michael Taft about Coronavirus, social distancing, nature doing what it does, overcoming cultural conditioning, enlightenment as a “system change,” practices for overcoming cultural… Read More »Vajrayana, Compassion, and the Importance of the Teacher, with Ken McLeod
Sometimes the best meditation practice is simply to surrender. This post is about how to let go. For many years, I took my meditation practice very seriously. I dedicated a significant portion of my life… Read More »Just Let Go — Surrender Everything in Meditation
Hour long guided nondual meditation by Michael Taft at the San Francisco Dharma Collective. First fifteen minutes are shamatha (relaxed focus). Then “dropping the ball.” Then inquiry into awareness. Want to learn more about nonduality?… Read More »Who Is Aware?
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
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
by Michael W. Taft There are zillions of books on meditation, but there are very few I would recommend, especially for somebody just starting out. Below you’ll find just the books I feel are the… Read More »Best Meditation Books
Michael Taft leads a 55 minute guided meditation at the San Francisco Dharma Collective. Relaxing attention until awareness is even in all directions, and the mind appears like sky. Interested in nondual meditation? Click here… Read More »Discovering Sky-like Mind
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