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 previous to manifestation, it's previous to all problems. Its mood is exuberant celebration, creative joy, and love without limit. It does not say no to anyone or anything. And so, tune into that love and joy, and feel the energy of it. Feel the energy of it radiating out f...| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation Talking about Dark Retreat, Part 2 with Andrew Holecek - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation Feel the Love Outside the Mind - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
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, but is it separate somehow? Is it a totally separate thing from this awakeness? Feel—is it somehow totally separate from the awakeness? It's just in our imagination that the body energy and the awakeness are seen as two different things. That's a thought. When you're just i...| Deconstructing Yourself
For the last 30 meditations or so, we have often used Michael's technique, called "dropping the ball." This is a way allowing the mind to open up to the "natural state." Here we use the dropping the ball technique to go even deeper into letting go than we normally do.| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation Ease and Spaciousness in Body and Mind - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Host Michael Taft talks with author and memory expert Anthony Metivier about using memory techniques to enhance meditation, memorizing and reciting scriptures in dead languages as a spiritual practice, using the ancient Memory Palace technique in combination with intense imagery, recall rehearsal, Giordano Bruno, Aristotle, learning foreign languages, the Ribhu Gita, and more. The post Meditation and Memory with Anthony Metivier appeared first on Deconstructing Yourself.| Deconstructing Yourself
Notice how really, really, wide open things are. If you're engaged with machinery of thought, you’re way stuck down inside your mind, but, when you disengage and just come into being, it's really broad, it's really open, it's really relaxed, and free. What's it like when you step outside thought? It's bright, it's clear, there are feelings, there's a body, it's open, it's fresh, it's timeless, it's boundaryless. So, for yourself, without any words, and without engaging the thinking at all, ...| Deconstructing Yourself
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, they are not really separate on that level. You can just directly notice it, so it's not like some kind of thing you have to believe in, just notice it. The post Radiantly Awake Space of Love appeared first on Deconstructing Yourself.| Deconstructing Yourself
Adele Tomlin offers a definitive analysis of the future of the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau that contextualizes Gelug dominance of Tibetan politics in 60 years of failed US diplomacy and Sino-Gelug impasse| Tea House
A petition for the 17th Karmapa's future unrestricted travel reveals underlying tensions and conflicts over the general situation of the Karma Kagyu| Tea House
Meditation Vibrating Awake Space and Freedom - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Vajrayana Embodying the 21 Taras with Chandra Easton - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation Resting as Awake Awareness - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Nonduality Meditate Outside the Mind - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Spaciousness Finding Space and Freedom - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Resource for All the World's Sorrows - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Outside the Vacuum Cave - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
A Conversation with Sam Harris - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
The Simplest Thing - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
The Magic of Vajrayana with Ken McLeod, Part 2 Transcript - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Contacting the Spaciousness Within - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
My name is Michael Taft, your host on the podcast, and in this episode, I'm speaking once again with Ken MacLeod. Ken MacLeod began his study and practice of Buddhism in 1970 under the eminent Tibetan master Kalu Rinpoche. After completing two three-year retreats, he was appointed as resident teacher for Kalu Rinpoche’s Center in Los Angeles, where he developed innovative approaches to teaching and translation. After his teacher's death in 1989, Ken established Unfettered Mind, a place for ...| Deconstructing Yourself
The moon of bodhicitta, the moon of your own deepest already existing primordial purity. And so the light of this moon is reaching out and touching you with a sense of tremendous compassion. It's very kind, very loving, it's really open; it's delighting in your presence rather than judgmental; and you feel a real sense of friendship and warmth and being known and understood. Furthermore, this moon is tremendously wise and confident. It has perfect confidence and authenticity. It is what it is...| Deconstructing Yourself
Tantra and Embodied Awakening with Christopher Wallis - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
It's this radiant, vibrant display in awareness rippling with color, light, sound, feeling, energy and yet also oddly unfindable or unlocatable and even what knows it is unknown. Now when I sound this bell. What's the question? The question is what knows this sound? The post What Is Noticing? appeared first on Deconstructing Yourself.| Deconstructing Yourself
Join host Michael Taft as he speaks with meditation teacher and author Andrew Holecek about "reverse meditation," the practice of using difficult experiences as the focus of our meditation, how this moves us through our perceived limits and allows us to recognize the perfection of the moment, and allows us to make any situation a profound and excellent meditation. The post Reverse Meditation with Andrew Holecek appeared first on Deconstructing Yourself.| Deconstructing Yourself
ow breathing in, take the image of Avalokiteshvara into your heart. Breathe Avalokiteshvara directly into your own heart where the image plugs in and begins to radiate powerfully from your own heart. So that the energy and wisdom and compassion of Avalokiteshvara, which translates as the one who hears the cries of the world, starts beaming out from your being. The post The Wisdom and Compassion of Avalokiteshvara appeared first on Deconstructing Yourself.| Deconstructing Yourself
antra is a spiritual movement, which began in the five hundreds or the sixth century, in our Western calendar, and spread throughout all of South Asia, initially, as well as later East Asia and Southeast Asia. And I call it a spiritual movement because Tantra itself is not a religion, but rather a way of doing religion, one might say. So all the major religions in South Asia at that time developed a tantric component, that is to say, Tantra first appeared within the religion called Shaivism, ...| Deconstructing Yourself
Allowing each in-breath to be nurturing, each out-breath to return the mind to space, absolutely vast, open, uncongealed space. If it wants to re-congeal, okay, it can happen on the in-breath with the nurturing quality, but then, on the out-breath, again it just falls open to become the sky without any effort at all, zero effort to do that. The post Everything in It’s Right Place Meditation appeared first on Deconstructing Yourself.| Deconstructing Yourself
And so Earth energy is rising up spreading out through the trunk and branches and leaves of the tree. This ancient, grounded, humble energy that is paradoxically both humble and noble. And the branches of the tree spread out into the vast, open sky, and the brilliant warm, healing, sacred light of the Sun is soaked up by all the leaves of the tree and runs down the branches and into the trunk. The post The Tree of Earth and Sky appeared first on Deconstructing Yourself.| Deconstructing Yourself
Transcript of: A Few Stray Points about Nonduality, with Jake Orthwein - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
When awareness recognizes itself, recognizes what it's always been it feels a kind of joy. It's just the joy of openness, the joy of no constriction, and also the joy of connection. There's no lack of connection and togetherness. Just notice that kindness and joy and connection radiating out in all directions, bringing relief in all directions to everyone everywhere. Kindness, peace, and ease to all beings everywhere. The post Just Ripples in the Infinite Ocean of Awareness appeared first on ...| Deconstructing Yourself
A Few Stray Points about Nonduality with Jake Orthwein. - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
The Magic of Vajrayana Part 2 with Ken McLeod - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Join host Michael Taft as he talks with translator, author, and teacher Ken McLeod about the subject of Ken's new book: The Magic of Vajrayana, particularly the tripartite practice structure of guru, deity, and protector in Tibetan Buddhism. The post The Magic of Vajrayana with Ken McLeod appeared first on Deconstructing Yourself.| Deconstructing Yourself
No matter how much thinking arises in this vast, boundless space, the space of awareness is not disturbed at all. It remains perfectly still. No matter how much emotional difficulty or physical pain arises in this space, awareness itself is not bothered or harmed in any way. This vast space of awareness is not something we create or generate, it's already there from the very beginning. I would say we just have to notice it, except it's what's noticing. So we don't even have to notice it. It's...| Deconstructing Yourself
It's funny, you don't really have to pretend or imagine that you are like the sky because that is the actual nature of your own awareness, your own mind. Already, since the very beginning, your natural mind is wide open, utterly awake and aware and bright: effortless, welcoming, clear, and beautiful. So just notice that nature of your own mind and just rest as that. It's not something you're generating, it's always been there. It's not something you have to find, it's the thing that's looking...| Deconstructing Yourself
We rest as bright, clear, awake awareness and that we can rest in. And when we're resting as awareness, awareness is not a tennis shoe and a dryer, it's a vast sky that is always peaceful, that is loving, that is joyous, that is really bright, that's really awake, and then if there are thoughts happening? Great. If there are other emotions happening? Great. If there are social feelings happening? Great, right? All that is fine because we're resting as this natural awareness and it's spacious,...| Deconstructing Yourself
Remember that because we are already existing fully awakened enlightened beings. You know, Green Taras, Buddhas, Shiva, Shaktis, whatever your belief system, whatever the most sacred, most awake, most compassionate, most loving being is, we are already all that. And so it doesn't matter what the thoughts are. They can be things like I was abused so much as a child I can never recognize my buddhahood. That thought is empty and it's not true because the buddhahood is stronger than that. The pos...| Deconstructing Yourself
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 recently so I’ll just say get in your meditation posture, whatever that might be. Make sure it feels nice for… Read More »Resting in Natural Awareness without Effort The post Resting in Natural Awareness without Effort appeared first on Deconstructing Yourself.| Deconstructing Yourself
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