So, in one sense this is nondual meditation. We’re not focusing on something. We’re not trying to focus on something. That’s a different kind of meditation, which is fine. Nothing wrong with that. But here,… Read More »Letting Go of All Contraction
Host Michael Taft interviews meditation teacher Wystan about teaching awakening outside a strict lineage framework, cultural translation of Buddhist practice, why awakening does not “come with a Buddhist label,” the tension between preserving traditional forms… Read More »A Conversation with Wystan
Who’s even trying to meditate? Who is meditating? Just look—see if you can find that individual. All you find is vast spacious awakeness with no friction, no impedance, no constriction at all. It’s just boundless… Read More »Openness Energy Awake
There are important opportunities coming up. Midterm elections, marches, strikes, school board meetings, conversations with neighbors. It’s going to be sad, and enraging, and terrifying—even disgusting at times—but our practice has trained us to handle… Read More »Stay with the Grief
Michael Taft talks with Nate Green of the Waking Up app about Michael’s new series, entitled Nondual Awakening.
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
Good. Continuing to come from the core, to come from the source, to come from radiant awakeness itself, the unmanifest, the infinitely, boundlessly, spacious, notice that this energy of awakeness is loving and joyous, it’s… Read More »Coming from the Source of Everything
When we’re outside the thinking mind, it’s easy to just sit with it. It just stays there, shining in our energy field, shining in our presence, shining in the body. It’s very stable, beautiful. Again,… Read More »Feel the Love Outside the Mind
Now, notice something very interesting. From the place of being the stillness that knows, is the energy of the body—this tingly, dancing energy of feeling alive, is that really separate? It’s different, it’s in motion,… Read More »Nondual Meditation – Being the Stillness
Can you notice, as you sit in simple presence, that the room is part of that simple presence—it’s not somehow separate. And that every conscious being in this room is part of that simple presence,… Read More »Radiantly Awake Space of Love
Host Michael Taft speaks with entrepreneur and meditator Stephen Zerfas on using technology to potentially enhance the learning of the jhanas, Zerfas’ background in meditation and jhana practice, and the vision of scaling adoption of… Read More »Jhanas, Technology, and Tradition with Stephen Zerfas
Host Michael Taft talks with teacher Shinzen Young about Shinzen’s decades-long dream of computer-based meditation instruction, his current creation of a rule-based, expert system based on Artificial Intelligence, the upcoming major upheavals in science and… Read More »Can You Learn Meditation from an AI? – with Shinzen Young
Furthermore, you may notice that this expression of space as body and mind doesn’t stop there. It radiates outward. This joyous expression of beauty and profundity radiates outward touching all other expressions, and all those… Read More »Gratitude for Simply Being