Latest Buddhist meditation Podcast Episodes
Embodying the 21 Taras with Chandra Easton.
Deconstructing Yourself - March 06, 2024 00:12 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft speaks with meditation teacher Chandra Easton about her new book Embodying Tara: 21 Manifestations to Awaken Your Innate Wisdom, the background of Green Tara, why there are 21 different manifestations, the inspirations for the book. Chandra's lifelong relationship with...
Can You Learn Meditation from an AI? - with Shinzen Young
Deconstructing Yourself - February 06, 2024 22:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft talks with teacher Shinzen Young about Shinzen's decades-long dream of computer-based meditation instruction, his current creation of a rule-based, expert system based on Artificial Intelligence, the upcoming major upheavals in science and culture that AI will bring, t...
A Conversation with Jeffrey Kripal
Deconstructing Yourself - January 22, 2024 23:09 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft speaks with author and professor Jeffrey Kripal about his early aspiration to be a Benedictine monk, the prophetic dimensions of the humanities, the sudden conversion, or "flip," into a weirder worldview experienced by some materialist scientists, the phenomena of UFOs...
Transgression with Erik Davis
Deconstructing Yourself - December 31, 2023 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft speaks with author and journalist Erik Davis about the power of partaking in the forbidden and the loss when formerly forbidden things become normalized, particularly in the case of psychedelics; Tantric and Christian modes of transgression, power relationships and the...
A Conversation with Sam Harris
Deconstructing Yourself - December 02, 2023 21:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft speaks with author, philosopher, and neuroscientist Sam Harris about the fusion of vipassana and nondual practice as the “gold standard” for practitioners, insights into selflessness through mindfulness and concentration, the distinction between moment-to-moment exper...
The Power of the Imaginal with Stephen Aizenstat
Deconstructing Yourself - November 04, 2023 14:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft talks with “Boss Jungian of Planet Earth” Stephen Aizenstat about diving into the depths of our authentic creativity, finding purpose in the imaginal, engaging "an imagination that opens from the inside out," the perils and promise of AI with regards to the human imagi...
Nondual Love with A. H. Almaas
Deconstructing Yourself - October 30, 2023 15:25 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft speaks with teacher, author, and founder of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization A. H. Almaas on the topic of Nondual Love, the qualities of awareness itself, the five dimensions of our fundamental nature, the differences between individual love and nondual love, t...
Tantra and Embodied Awakening with Christopher Wallis.
Deconstructing Yourself - September 29, 2023 20:23 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael W. Taft speaks with Tantra scholar and teacher Christopher Wallis about the word “enlightenment” in English and the words in Sanskrit it is typically the translation for; the differences between awakening and liberation; karma, samskara, and the deep unconscious; Shiva-orie...
Reverse Meditation with Andrew Holecek
Deconstructing Yourself - August 23, 2023 20:02 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsJoin host Michael Taft as he speaks with meditation teacher and author Andrew Holecek about “reverse meditation,” the Mahamudra-based 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 per...
A Conversation with Kati Devaney
Deconstructing Yourself - July 13, 2023 14:11 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft talks with neuroscientist and Executive Director of the Alembic, Kati Devaney about meditation, the neuroscience of meditation, predictive processing, the wonder of travel, psychedelics, and more. Kathryn Devaney, Ph.D. is a neuroscientist and meditation practitioner,...
A Few Stray Points about Nonduality with Jake Orthwein
Deconstructing Yourself - April 18, 2023 05:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsYour host Michael Taft is interviewed by Jake Orthwein about the various kinds of nonduality, the difference between monoism and nondualism, fundamental confusions about nondual practice, the major contrast between the transcendence-orientation of dualistic religions and the world-engag...
Exploring Nondual Shaiva Tantra with Christopher Wallis
Deconstructing Yourself - March 20, 2023 01:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsJoin 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 A...
The Magic of Vajrayana Part 2 with Ken McLeod
Deconstructing Yourself - February 27, 2023 18:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsJoin host Michael Taft as he continues his talk with translator, author, and teacher Ken McLeod about Ken’s new book: The Magic of Vajrayana, and issues around receiving initiations and empowerments, the experiential component, aspects of White Tara and Mahakala practices, the power of ...
The Magic of Vajrayana with Ken McLeod
Deconstructing Yourself - February 14, 2023 06:20 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsJoin host Michael Taft as he talks with translator, author, and teacher Ken McLeod about Ken's new book: The Magic of Vajrayana, particularly the tripartite practice structure of guru, deity, and protector in Tibetan Buddhism. Ken McLeod began his study and practice of Buddhism in 1970...
Meditation and the Bayesian Brain with Shamil Chandaria
Deconstructing Yourself - December 17, 2022 15:25 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft talks with philanthropist, serial entrepreneur, technologist, and meditator Dr. Shamil Chandaria about predictive processing as it relates to meditation, our phenomenal self model, recognizing our own fabrication hierarchy, replacing our top level priors as a way to un...
John Vervaeke on Relevance Realization
Deconstructing Yourself - October 05, 2022 21:45 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost 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 a...
A Conversation with Rosa Lewis
Deconstructing Yourself - September 06, 2022 15:20 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsIn this episode, host Michael Taft talks with Rosa Lewis about spirituality, creativity, working with trauma, embracing the darkness, the inner critic, the power of meditation, and more. Rosa Lewis is a mystic and a meditation teacher. Her teaching combines Buddhist emptiness, shadow w...
Changing Minds with David McRaney
Deconstructing Yourself - July 24, 2022 15:46 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost 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...
A Conversation with Guy Sengstock
Deconstructing Yourself - June 01, 2022 20:46 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost 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 communicat...
The Power of Non-sleep Deep Rest with Kelly Boys
Deconstructing Yourself - May 04, 2022 02:07 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft speaks with meditation teacher and author Kelly Boys on the practice of non-sleep, deep rest—a modern name for the ancient practice of yoga nidra, using liminal states as gateways to profound meditative experiences, finding ways to let go more completely, how this prac...
A Conversation on Nonduality with Andrew Holecek
Deconstructing Yourself - April 25, 2022 16:45 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft iterviews Tibetan Buddhist meditation teacher and author Andrew Holecek on nondual practice and theory, finding your way back to the true nature of mind, the dangers of getting dropped off in the deep end too soon, challenging to notion of path, the art of doing nothin...
Nondual Teachings of LinJi, with Shinzen Young
Deconstructing Yourself - March 14, 2022 14:57 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft speaks with meditation master and neuroscience consultant Shinzen Young on the background and history of Zen Master LinJi (aka Rinzai, in Japanese), the meaning of his famous phrase "the authentic person," various aspects of nonduality, an unpacking of LinJi's Four-fol...
Can People Really Change? with Tina Rasmussen.
Deconstructing Yourself - January 19, 2022 23:23 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft talks with meditation teacher and author Tina Rasmussen about how psychology and meditation practice can work together to help people heal, working with trauma, the importance of heart-based practices such as metta, spiritual bypassing, using shamatha to build new brai...
Meditation, Insight, and Predictive Processing with Ruben Laukkonen
Deconstructing Yourself - January 04, 2022 02:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft talks with neuroscientist and meditator Ruben Laukkonen about the phenomenology of the insight experience, how the sequence of deepening meditative practices maps onto the model of predictive processing in the human brain, the Eureka heuristic, what neuroscience can te...
Eco-Aesthetics and the Poetry of Longing with Rick Jarow
Deconstructing Yourself - November 30, 2021 18:31 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsWhat can ancient Sanskrit poetry of love and longing teach us about our own deepest spirituality? Join host Michael Taft as he explores this question with professor, author, and teacher Rick Jarow. Further topics include the tantric aspect of poetry, how landscape and nature informs and...
Vision, Visualization, and Vajrayana, with Chandra Easton
Deconstructing Yourself - November 01, 2021 00:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft speaks with Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton about her recent work with the 21 manifestations of the Goddess Tara, some aspects of Green Tara, and especially the role of vision and visualization in Vajrayana, and Buddhism more generally. Beginning with the somewhat negative ...
Vision, Visualization, and Vajrayana, with Chandra Easton.
Deconstructing Yourself - November 01, 2021 00:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft speaks with Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton about her recent work with the 21 manifestations of the Goddess Tara, some aspects of Green Tara, and especially the role of vision and visualization in Vajrayana, and Buddhism more generally. Beginning with the somewhat negative ...
Talking about Zen Koans with Henry Shukman
Deconstructing Yourself - August 18, 2021 22:24 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsZen 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 of psychotherapy in spiritual practice, the power of working in the “old way,”...
Vajrayana as a Living Practice, with Ken McLeod
Deconstructing Yourself - July 20, 2021 22:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft talks with teacher and author Ken McLeod about his insights into Vajrayana, spiritual practice as "choosing a way to live," the Tibetan idea of lam khyer, the power of prayer as a kind of raw, naked stance, why the seeds of spirituality need to be nurtured in secret, d...
Dimensions of Nonduality with Tina Rasmussen
Deconstructing Yourself - June 30, 2021 16:42 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft talks with meditation teacher and author Tina Rasmussen about ways to understand nondual awareness and the progress of nondual meditation, including her own unique comparison between the Formless Realms of early Buddhist meditation and the Boundless Dimensions taught b...
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