Latest Buddhist meditation Podcast Episodes
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...
The Official Alan Watts Podcast is Coming to the Be Here Now Network!
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - June 02, 2021 17:31 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsThe Alan Watts Organization and Be Here Now Network have come together to bring you a new podcast series that dives deep into the Alan Watts Archive’s 100-hour collection of talks. This Monday, June 7th, discover for yourself why Alan Watts has continued to inspire generations of seek...
Meditation and Communication with Shinzen Young
Deconstructing Yourself - June 02, 2021 16:28 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsShinzen Young talks with host Michael Taft about his new ideas around applying the systematic mindset of mindfulness meditation and the scientific method to the many challenges of human communication and miscommunication. Topics include the coming of Unified Mindfulness to China, the ne...
Spiritual Bypassing and the Spiritual Friend
Deconstructing Yourself - May 17, 2021 14:15 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft talks about the phenomenon of spiritual bypassing, what it is, what it means for our practice, and whether it is as big of an issue as many seem to think, as well as the importance of having a meditation buddy, and the ageless tradition of the “soul friend.” Michael ...
Meditation and Healing Trauma with Thomas Hübl
Deconstructing Yourself - April 01, 2021 00:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft speaks with spiritual teacher and author Thomas Hübl about trauma and healing, aspects of collective and cultural trauma, Jungian psychology, meditation, spirituality, and much more. Thomas Hübl is a contemporary mystic, international spiritual teacher, and author who...
A Conversation with Spring Washam
Deconstructing Yourself - March 12, 2021 15:16 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft speaks with meditation teacher and shamanic practitioner Spring Washam about the "dharma of Harriet Tubman," the inner vs. the outer journey of finding liberation, how the "meditation bubble" can actually block spiritual growth, bringing the wisdom of meditation to act...
Talking with People about Things, with David McRaney
Deconstructing Yourself - February 03, 2021 17:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft speaks with science journalist, author, and podcaster David McRaney about how people do (and do not) change their minds, how brains form their view of reality, conspiracy theory, the method of "technique rebuttal" vs. "topic rebuttal,' QAnon, motivated reasoning, the p...
Soulmaking Dharma, with Catherine McGee
Deconstructing Yourself - December 08, 2020 23:55 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft speaks with meditation teacher Catherine McGee about Soulmaking Dharma; her journey into meditation practice; using the word “soul” in a Buddhist context; working with the energy body; connecting with the imaginal in meditation; what sort of person thrives in the Soulm...
Dreams and the Spiritual Imagination, with Steve Aizenstat
Deconstructing Yourself - November 06, 2020 15:02 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsDepth Psychologist Steve Aizenstat speaks with host Michael Taft about dreams, the living image of dreams and their innate intelligence, the healing and creative power of the deep imagination; how dreams relate to meditation and spiritual practice, and the way that we are "all cyborgs n...
Love Unveiled with A. H. Almaas
Deconstructing Yourself - October 07, 2020 14:04 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsSpiritual teacher A. H. Almaas speaks with host Michael Taft about the centrality of love to our spiritual nature, how to tell the difference between emotional love and spiritual love, how the wounds of love can become openings for awakening, various “flavors” of love, and the necessity...
Vajrayana and Deity Yoga with Chandra Easton
Deconstructing Yourself - September 21, 2020 17:58 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsBuddhist Teacher and author Lopön Chandra Easton talks with Michael Taft about Vajrayana, her own pilgrimage and experiences in India, the struggle to bring motherhood, sexuality, the feminine, and the female voice into spiritual life, the power of yidam or deity yoga, how Westerners re...
Evolving Ground with Rindzin Pamo and Jared Janes
Deconstructing Yourself - August 25, 2020 14:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft speaks with Rin’dzin Pamo and Jared Janes about their new project, entitled “Evolving Ground,” which is a community of practitioners that seeks to reinterpret and revitalize Vajrayana practice in a contemporary Western context. Topics include: the failure of Tibetan Bu...
A Conversation with Ken McLeod
Deconstructing Yourself - August 03, 2020 21:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsWriter, translator, teacher, and business consultant, Ken McLeod speaks with host Michael Taft about the chaos unleashed by new forms of communication, dedicating your whole life to meditation and spiritual experience, what evokes a deep sense of the sacred?, how teachers point out awak...
Ep. 95 - Mahamudra and Dzogchen
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - July 27, 2020 03:46 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsIn this dharma talk, Lama Surya Das explores the similarities and differences of the Mahamudra and Dzogchen practices, and how we can start to cultivate a ‘nowness awareness.’ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do...
Paranoia, Conspiracy, and Covid, with Erik Davis
Deconstructing Yourself - July 14, 2020 14:30 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsAuthor, podcaster, award-winning journalist, and cultural historian Erik Davis speaks with host Michael Taft about QAnon as a new religion, Gnostic psychology and the power of the secret truth, new narrative warfare exploiting human psychology, technologically-sophisticated divination t...
Ep. 94 - Sky Mind
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - July 03, 2020 20:42 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsLama Surya Das explores the natural great perfection of sky mind, or panoramic awareness, and talks about the difference between the Mahamudra and Dzogchen traditions. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell...
Ep. 93 - The Four Immeasurables
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - June 11, 2020 21:01 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsIn this episode of Awakening Now, Lama Surya Das explores the Four Immeasurables, looks at the concept of emptiness as openness, and extols the virtues of the Middle Way. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-s...
Effortlessness in Meditation, with Jud Brewer
Deconstructing Yourself - June 07, 2020 17:47 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsNeuroscientist and mindfulness expert Jud Brewer speaks with host Michael Taft about his research into the four steps of Rigpa (with teacher and psychologist Dan Brown), effortlessness in meditation and the feeling of openness vs. closedness, the neurochemistry of reward, the historical...
Awakening and the Path of Liberation, with Dan Brown
Deconstructing Yourself - May 20, 2020 21:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsPsychologist, author, translator, and meditation teacher, Dan Brown talks with host Michael Taft about the three levels of practice from a taste of awakening to "full buddhahood," the details of what a taste of awakening entails, the path to complete liberation, his neuroscience of nond...
Ep. 92 - Integrating the Teachings
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - May 19, 2020 21:34 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsIn this episode of Awakening Now, Lama Surya Das explores the transformative practices of Tibetan Buddhism and how we can begin integrating those teachings into our daily lives. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#d...
Ep. 91 - The Golden Eternity
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - May 01, 2020 23:45 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsIn this episode of Awakening Now, Lama Surya Das explores how the timeless wisdom of Dzogchen can help open our eyes to what Jack Kerouac called the Golden Eternity. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-...
Vajrayana, Compassion, and the Importance of the Teacher, with Ken McLeod
Deconstructing Yourself - April 22, 2020 21:10 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsWriter, translator, teacher, and business consultant, Ken McLeod speaks with host Michael Taft about Coronavirus, social distancing, nature doing what it does, overcoming cultural conditioning, enlightenment as a "system change," practices for overcoming cultural conditioning and develo...
Ep. 90 - Co-Meditation and Naked Awareness
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - April 10, 2020 21:46 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsIn this episode of Awakening Now, Lama Surya Das explores Dzogchen practices such as co-meditation and naked awareness, and why too much emptiness is not a good thing. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell...
Why Do Narcissists Become Spiritual Teachers, with Stephan Bodian
Deconstructing Yourself - March 21, 2020 13:39 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsNondual teacher and psychotherapist Stephan Bodian and host Michael Taft discuss how and why narcissists rise to the top of spiritual organizations, the ways that nondual traditions like Zen may be especially prone to teacher misbehavior, the problem with “crazy wisdom” teachers, as wel...
Ep. 89 - Enlightenment and Subjectivity
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - March 20, 2020 21:28 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsIn this episode of Awakening Now, Lama Surya Das gives a dharma talk about the relationship between Sunyata and subjectivity, and how there are no prerequisites for enlightenment. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy...
Ep. 88 – Embracing the Essence of Buddhism
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - February 28, 2020 20:59 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsLama Surya Das offers a dharma talk around the essence of Buddhism and cultivating the ability to be here now. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Questioning Assumptions about Buddhism, with Evan Thompson
Deconstructing Yourself - February 16, 2020 02:14 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsEvan Thompson discusses his new book, “Why I Am Not a Buddhist” with host Michael Taft. Topics include the myth of Buddhist exceptionalism, how Buddhist modernism presented a false picture of Buddhism as a value-neutral “mind science” rather than a religion, his own lifelong journey wit...
The Nondual Heart, with John Prendergast
Deconstructing Yourself - February 07, 2020 23:49 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsNondual teacher and psychotherapist John Prendergast speaks with host Michael Taft about the heart area as an opening to infinite space, contacting the “dark matrix” of the ground, the body as a vibrant expression of emptiness, moving out of the cycle of reactivity into the creative lif...
Ep. 87 – Emaho and Advanced Dzogchen
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - February 07, 2020 00:47 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsOn this episode of Awakening Now, Lama Surya Das explores the fun practice of Emaho and other advanced Dzogchen teachings, including integrated dharma into daily life. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell...
Nonduality and Awake Awareness, with Loch Kelly
Deconstructing Yourself - January 26, 2020 15:11 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsNondual teacher and psychotherapist Loch Kelly speaks with host Michael Taft about what nondualism is, schools of effort vs. non-effort (and those in between), the five foundations of effortless mindfulness, awake awareness and rigpa, stabilizing nondual awareness, balancing the brain's...
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