This is week four of an eight week collaboration between Michael Owens and Michael Taft. Each Sunday, Michael Owens will teach on a(t least one) chapter of the VNS. Then the following Thursday, Michael Taft… Read More »The Vimalakirti Experience, Part 5B – The Family of the Tathagatas
This is week four of an eight week collaboration between Michael Owens and Michael Taft. Each Sunday, Michael Owens will teach on a(t least one) chapter of the VNS. Then the following Thursday, Michael Taft… Read More »The Vimalakirti Experience, Part 4B – The Goddess
This is week three of an eight week collaboration between Michael Owens and Michael Taft. Each Sunday, Michael Owens will teach on a(t least one) chapter of the VNS. Then the following Thursday, Michael Taft… Read More »Vimalakirti 3B/8 – The Inconceivable Liberation
This is week two of an eight week collaboration between Michael Owens and Michael Taft. Each Sunday, Michael Owens will teach on a(t least one) chapter of the VNS. Then the following Thursday, Michael Taft… Read More »Entering the Dharma Door of Non-Duality: The Vimalakirti Experience – Michael Taft – Part 2/8
Guided meditation by Michael Taft, inspired by Chapter One of the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra. This is week one of an eight week collaboration between Michael Owens and Michael Taft. Each Sunday, Michael Owens will teach… Read More »Entering the Dharma Door of Non-Duality: The Vimalakirti Experience, Part 1
aka: Ultra-dropping the Ball Guided nondual meditation by Michael Taft, in an undisclosed location, for the San Francisco Dharma Collective. For the last 30 meditations or so, we have often used Michael’s technique, called “dropping… Read More »Dropping the Ultra Ball
An hourlong guided meditation on the breath and pleasant sensations in the body, by Michael Taft for the San Francisco Dharma Collective. Often Michael’s guided meditations begin with 15 minutes of shamatha (focus and relaxation)… Read More »Just Shamatha
In this final class (4/4), Michael describes the role of emptiness plays in the model (hint: it is the central concept), and talks about how to work your way up the stack in reverse. This… Read More »Deconstructing Sensory Experience & Nondual Practice, with Michael Taft, Part 4
Michael Taft explains his system of understanding meditation experience. With guided meditations. In the third session of this class, we learn more about contacting sensory experience in greater and greater detail—particularly diving deeply into impermanence… Read More »Deconstructing Sensory Experience & Nondual Practice, with Michael Taft—Part 3
Hourlong nondual guided meditation by Michael W. Taft at the San Francisco Dharma Collective. 0- 15 min – shamatha (relaxed focus) 15-30 min – resting in awareness 30 – 60 – Noticing the Vedanan (pleasant… Read More »Contacting Vedana
One hour guided nondual meditation by Michael Taft. When we make a sensory experience into an object, we simultaneously make ourselves into an object, too. Conversely, when we notice the emptiness of phenomena, we notice… Read More »Emptiness of Phenomena; Emptiness of Self
Hour long nondual guided meditation by Michael Taft at San Francisco Dharma Collective. 0 – 15 min – shamatha 15 – 30 min – contacting the Natural Mind (“dropping the ball” technique) 30 – 60… Read More »There but not There
Hour long guided nondual meditation by Michael Taft. – First 15 minutes: shamatha (focused relaxation) meditation. – Next effortlessly contacting the natural mind (i.e. “dropping the ball”). – Awareness noticing phenomena arising, without location, direction,… Read More »Experience without Separation