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 to do and no doer.
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. Where are thoughts coming from? Are they..? If you think you found it, look, or investigate is the right word; investigate more clearly, more precisely. Right now, look. Where do thoughts originate?
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 the posture several times in detail… Read More »Resting in Natural Awareness without Effort
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 a “band aid,” the role… Read More »Talking about Zen Koans, with Henry Shukman
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft According to Buddhist cosmology, the world of existence is divided into six types of beings. As one who is trapped in Samsara (i.e. ‘the world”) you can be reborn… Read More »Meditating on the Six Realms of Existence
Guided Meditation with Michael Taft One hour guided meditation, followed by a dharma talk and Q&A. In all the meditations from Michael (labeled “nondual”) there is a structure behind what we are doing. First there… Read More »Nondual Vipashyana on Experience Arising
Guided nondual meditation with Michael Taft In this one-of-a-kind guided nondual meditation, Michael Taft gives pointing out instructions. As the name suggests, the teacher is “pointing out” the nondual state to the student—showing them where… Read More »Pointing Out Instructions
Guided meditation by Michael Taft After the one-hour guided meditation, there is a dharma talk and Q&A. About this meditation. Many people feel that they have a “center of awareness,” which is the place that… Read More »Three Centers of Awareness
Guided Meditation and Teaching by Michael Taft In this guided nondual meditation, we allow awareness to observe itself very clearly. The clarity is heightened by the use of inquiry questions. The meditation begins with focusing… Read More »Nondual Inquiry into Awareness
Guided Nondual Meditation with Michael Taft Oftentimes, in Buddhist practice, desire is considered to be something bad or wrong, or minimally something to get rid of. And it is true that many forms of desire… Read More »What Do I Really Want?
Guided Nondual Meditation with Michael Taft 3:00 Begin Guided meditation, doing Shamatha with an object (relaxation). 18:00 Move into “Relaxing the Core of the Mind.” Letting go of any grasping onto any object. 1:04:00 Dharma… Read More »Resting in the Natural Mind
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft Oftentimes, meditation seems to make an enemy of thought. As if thought is a bad thing, or at least something we need to get rid of or not have… Read More »Awareness Inside Thought
Guided Meditation by Michael Taft First 15 min – Shamatha with an object.Then Dissolving with the OutbreathThen Shamatha without an objectThen the body is deconstructed into earth, air, fire, water, and space. There are many… Read More »Deconstructing the Body into the Traditional Elements