Talking about Deity Yoga with Peter McEwen - Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation Talking about Deity Yoga with Peter McEwen - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation Talking about Deity Yoga with Peter McEwen - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Deconstructing Yourself - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
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
Now, in this place of vast, open, awareness, ask yourself this question: What is peace? Don't answer the question with the machinery of your thinking, or with a memory or some kind of cleverness. Look into the sky of your own awareness, and see if there is peace. What is peace? The post Inquiry into the Open Sky appeared first on Deconstructing Yourself.| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation Being the Stillness - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation The Ego and Nondual Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Now, without engaging ideas at all, and noticing this wide open wide awake spacious, boundaryless, vibratory body and mind. Just notice directly what you notice when I ask you to ask yourself the question, what separates me from anybody else? Notice how that sense of wide openness welcomes everything, welcomes everyone. It's not rejecting anything, ever. Without adding anything, or trying to be a certain way, or imagining this, or trying to do that. Awareness itself is already completely we...| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation A Conversation with David Godman - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Nonduality is the human experience of oneness; a sense of connectedness and identity with the entire universe. How to contact nondual awareness.| 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
Meditation Talking about Dark Retreat with Andrew Holecek - Deconstructing Yourself| 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 Sanity and Sainthood with Dr. Tucker Peck - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation Ease and Spaciousness in Body and Mind - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Now, continuing to just sit in simple presence, notice if there's any tension in the core of your mind. Tension in the core of your mind is what keeps you grabbing onto thoughts, or grabbing onto ideas, or trying to figure stuff out, or trying to plan. It's like there's a fist in the core of your head, and it keeps grabbing on to stuff. Even though, of course, there's no fist in the core of your head, it feels like muscle tension almost. So, if you can notice that, the thing to do is relax th...| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation Thoughts Without a Thinker - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Host Michael Taft speaks with Stephen Snyder Sensei about practicing the Pa Auk jhanas, the importance of vulnerability in finding authentic strength, his two paths for awakening: the Theravada cessation path and the Zen shikantaza path, how to balance psychological work with awakening, seeing the enlightened qualities of anger (and other difficult emotions), what are… Read More »Awakening, Cessation, and Vulnerability, with Stephen Snyder The post Awakening, Cessation, and Vulnerability,...| Deconstructing Yourself
Nonduality Effortlessly Being the Welcoming Openness - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
See if you can find that subtle energy behind the breathing, that subtle energy behind the breathing will be moving up and down in the core of the body, but you may find you feel it also in the extremities, or on the skin, or whatever, but kind of the core of it is in the core. It's right in the center moving up and down the central channel. As you feel that subtle energy moving the breath, notice you might start feeling it and you might start feeling kind of emanations from that energy, feel...| Deconstructing Yourself
Host Michael Taft continues a lively discussion with author and ayurvedic physician Dr. Robert Svoboda about the Aghora method of transmutation, alignment with nature, deity yoga, deities as a co-creation of humans and a cosmic force, the path of knowledge vs. the path of devotion, enjoying the flavor of reality, and the foundational importance of… Read More »Aghora, Deities, and Devotion with Dr. Robert Svoboda The post Aghora, Deities, and Devotion with Dr. Robert Svoboda appeared first...| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation The Vipashyana Stack - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
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Meditation Relax into Mental Flow - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation Invocation and Shadow with Charlie Awbery - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Now, from this space of still, silent, wide awakeness, notice the flavors of sensation and movement in the body. They're not still—the feelings of energy, the feelings of regular sensations, the movement of the breath and the beating of the heart, and so on. All the stuff that's not still—notice that it is not in any way separate from that stillness. They're different—one is moving, and one is still, but they're never separate. We could almost say that the movements, the sensations, exp...| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation What Are You Avoiding? - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Good. Now, ask yourself, what is aware of thought? What knows thought?—And then, look. Look comprehensively. Try to find what knows thought. It's interesting, that if you're really looking for what knows thought, it's very hard for any thoughts to arise. It's kind of fascinating. If you find yourself caught up in thought, the minute you notice, try to find what it is that knows thought—and just keep looking. Every thought that arises, what is it that knows that thought? What is it that kn...| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation Tantra, Aghora, and Death, with Dr. Robert Svoboda - 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
Meditation Sit in Simple Presence - 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
So, if that awake space, that Gnostic, boundlessness, is apparent, then come to an even deeper sense of presence in that. It's not a thought, it's not a feeling, it's not a sight or a sound, it's not a special experience. It's just the space of experience itself, the awake space itself. There's no thought that can get at that. There's no way of looking that gets at that. It is the looking. If you try to be the one finding it, the one looking at it, that's just some thought and feeling pretend...| 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
Michael W. Taft is a maverick meditation teacher, bestselling author, podcaster, and neuroscience junkie. As a mindfulness coach, he specializes in secular, science-based mindfulness training in retreats, groups, corporate settings, and one-on-one sessions. Michael is the author of several books, including the bestselling The Mindful Geek, Nondualism: A Brief History of a Timeless Concept, and Ego (which he co-authored).| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation Practicing the Diamond Sutra with Ken McLeod - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Love Original Love with Henry Shukman - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation Practicing Tummo with Peter McEwen - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditation Effortless Nondual Awareness - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
jhana Jhanas, Technology, and Tradition with Stephen Zerfas - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
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
Can You Learn Meditation from an AI? - with Shinzen Young - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Resource for All the World's Sorrows - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
A Conversation with Jeffrey Kripal - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Transgression with Erik Davis - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Outside the Vacuum Cave - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
A Conversation with Sam Harris - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Nondual Freedom within Flow and Openness - 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
The Power of the Imaginal with Stephen Aizenstat - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Contacting the Spaciousness Within - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Nondual Love with A. H. Almaas - 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
You can listen to the original podcast here Michael Taft: Welcome to Deconstructing Yourself, the podcast for metamodern mutants interested in meditation, neuroscience, Dzogchen, jazz, Tantra, philosophy, awakening, and much, much more. My name is Michael Taft, your host on the podcast, and in this episode, I’m happy to be speaking with my good friend,… Read More »Transcript of Eco-Aesthetics and the Poetry of Longing, with Rick Jarow The post Transcript of Eco-Aesthetics and the Poetry...| 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
Host Michael Taft talks with neuroscientist and Executive Director of the Alembic, Kati Devaney about meditation, the neuroscience of meditation, psychedelics, and more. The post A Conversation with Kati Devaney 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
Transcript of Talking about Zen Koans, with Henry Shukman - 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
Join host Michael Taft as he talks with Tantrik scholar and practitioner Christopher Wallis about the tradition of Nondual Shaiva Tantra, the full void pregnant with possibilities, savoring the transcendent in every sensual experience, the differences between Nondual Shaiva Tantra and Advaita Vedanta, the origins of Tantra and Vajrayana, sublime beauty, aesthetic rapture, and much… Read More »Exploring Nondual Shaiva Tantra with Christopher Wallis The post Exploring Nondual Shaiva Tantra ...| 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
Meditation Meditation and the Bayesian Brain with Shamil Chandaria. - 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
Host Michael Taft speaks with professor John Vervaeke about relevance realization—the process by which we decide what matters in any given situation—and its application to meditation, how we gain an increased sense of meaning in life, and why there is no panacea in practice. John also answers the question: what is a wise person? The post John Vervaeke on Relevance Realization appeared first on Deconstructing Yourself.| Deconstructing Yourself
In this episode, host Michael Taft talks with Rosa Lewis about spirituality, creativity, working with trauma, embracing the darkness, the power of meditation, and more. The post A Conversation with Rosa Lewis appeared first on Deconstructing Yourself.| 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
Host Michael Taft speaks with author, science journalist, and psychology nerd David McRaney about what sorts of conversations actually cause human beings to change their minds; the fascinating on-the-ground research of groups like Street Epistemology and Deep Canvassers, the stories of people deciding to leave insular in-groups such as the Westboro Baptist church and 9-11… Read More »Changing Minds with David McRaney The post Changing Minds with David McRaney appeared first on Deconstruct...| 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
Host Michael Taft speaks with artist, bodyworker, and philosopher Guy Sengstock about the origin and creation of Circling practice, how the asynchronous qualities of new technologies have created a deeper hunger for basic human contact, the crucial importance of embodiment in communication, mindfulness of presence, as well as the new practice he’s creating with Jon… Read More »A Conversation with Guy Sengstock The post A Conversation with Guy Sengstock appeared first on Deconstructing Y...| Deconstructing Yourself
Gratitude for Simply Being - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Host Michael Taft speaks with Vajrayana teacher Rin'dzin Pamo about Vajrayana meditation practice currently, adapting practices for our times, the role of the guru in practice, how meditation practice is like engineering (and Jiu Jitsu), and much more.| Deconstructing Yourself
Talking about Zen Koans, with Henry Shukman - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Tantric Fearlessness Challenge - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Nonduality The Burning Fire of Awareness - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
The Freedom of Groundlessness - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
The Boundless Sky of the Mind - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Resting as Wakefulness Itself - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Awareness Is Not a Special State - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Meditating on the Stream of Thought - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Letting Go, Doing Nothing - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
Five Elements Meditation - Deconstructing Yourself| Deconstructing Yourself
