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
Guided Meditation with Michael Taft In this hour-long guided meditation, Michael Taft leads you through the four Brahma Viharas Meditation, or “Divine Abodes.”
Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft One hour meditation: 2:58 – Meditation begins (shamatha with an object)17:45 – Dissolving with the Out Breath32:11 – Dropping the Ball (i.e. shamatha without an object)47:10 – Cut through… Read More »Using Emptiness to Cut Through
Nondual Guided Meditation by Michael Taft Meditation begins at 4:20 and lasts for one hour. We start with with raising bodhicitta. 9:22 – Then focused relaxation (shamatha with an object).24:00 – We being “relaxing the… Read More »Empty Awareness—Aware Emptiness (Nondual)