Latest Buddhist meditation Podcast Episodes
Ep. 86 – Obstacles Along The Middle Way
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - January 17, 2020 02:39 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsIn this dharma talk, Lama Surya Das looks at ways we can overcome common obstacles that present themselves along our journey of awakening. This talk was recorded at the Garrison Institute during Dzogchen Center’s Natural Great Awakening 2019 Summer Meditation Retreat. Visit garrisonins...
Ep. 85 – Awareness With a Capital “A”
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - December 28, 2019 19:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsLama Surya Das shares a reflection on how we can bring greater balance and awareness into our lives through the practices of Dzogchen. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Meditating with Buddhist Sutras, with Michael Owens
Deconstructing Yourself - December 28, 2019 15:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft speaks with Michael Owens, a Buddhist teacher and author, about being a monk in Taiwan, Buddhist sutras as portals to alternate realities, understanding dependent origination, the nondual ground and extreme psychedelia of the Mahayana sutras, the Vimalakirti Nirdeśa Su...
Ep. 84 – Principles of Dzogchen
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - December 05, 2019 23:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsLama Surya Das explores some of the principles of Dzogchen non-meditation as he reminds us to ride the cresting wave of now-ness. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Reversing the Stack— A Nondual Practice Map, with Michael Taft
Deconstructing Yourself - November 22, 2019 03:03 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsIn this episode, host Michael Taft remixes his map of deconstructing sensory experience, and talks about how to use it to work in nondual traditions. Essentially the idea is to reverse the stack by starting out with Stage 4 (pure awareness) and then working your way up to stage 3, etc. ...
Ep. 83 – Backyard Bodhisattva
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - October 25, 2019 02:52 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsIn this dharma talk, Lama Surya Das discusses how the Dzogchen notion of the View enhances every relative action in life and awakens the backyard Bodhisattva inside all of us. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-...
What Does Dreaming Have to Do with Meditation? with Andrew Holecek
Deconstructing Yourself - October 23, 2019 14:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft speaks with Dream Yoga expert Andrew Holecek about how the dream state (and dreamless sleep) can effect meditation practice. Topics include: the fantasy-filling model of lucid dreaming vs. spiritual awakening; dream yoga, sleep yoga, and Bardo yoga; the love of napping...
Deconstructing Sensory Experience, with Michael Taft
Deconstructing Yourself - September 24, 2019 12:43 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsIn this episode, host Michael Taft shares a map of deconstructing sensory experience. This is intended to help orient you to your vipassana meditation practice; helping you to understand where you’re at, where you’re going, and what to look for next. A basic map of vipassana. Note: thi...
Ep. 82 – Seeing with Naked Awareness
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - September 13, 2019 21:05 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsThis time on the Awakening Now Podcast, Lama Surya Das teaches the first steps in practicing Dzogchen non-meditation and seeing with naked awareness. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Ep. 81 – Integrating Dharma with Daily Life
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - August 22, 2019 19:37 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsLama Surya Das embraces the dance of Rigpa as he explores how Bodhisattva actions means being responsive, as needed, to the higher vision of life. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Vajrayana, Engineering, and Jiu Jitsu, with Rin’dzin Pamo
Deconstructing Yourself - August 13, 2019 15:23 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft speaks with Vajrayana teacher Rin’dzin Pamo about Vajrayana meditation practice currently, adapting practices for our times, their practice of The Mind Illuminated, the role of the guru in practice, how meditation practice is like engineering (and Jiu Jitsu), and much ...
Ep. 80 – Vajra Pride
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - August 01, 2019 22:23 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsLama Surya Das explores the practice of Vajra pride, then takes questions on vegetarianism and Buddhism, preparing for the moment of death, and mindfulness. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. ...
Why Metadharma?, Pt. 2, with Vincent Horn
Deconstructing Yourself - July 31, 2019 03:52 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsWhy Metadharma? is an unusual episode of the Deconstructing Yourself podcast, in that it’s Part 2 of a joint interview between Vince and Michael Taft. Part 1 appeared on the Buddhist Geeks podcast recently, and they continue the conversation here. The topic of these discussions is a su...
Meditation, Emotions, and the Bio-Emotive Framework with Douglas Tataryn
Deconstructing Yourself - July 14, 2019 12:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft speaks with clinical psychologist and life coach, Douglas Tataryn, Ph.D. about meditation and psychology. Topics include his work with meditation teachers such as Culadasa, the “wake up, clean up, grow up, and look around” model, Wilber’s integral model. working with t...
Ep. 79 – Freedom From Action
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - July 11, 2019 23:44 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsLama Surya Das pays tribute to Dzogchen master Chatral Rinpoche as he talks about the important practice of letting things come and go, and accepting whatever is in front of you. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#...
Loch Kelly on Awareness, Freedom, and Effortless Mindfulness
Deconstructing Yourself - July 03, 2019 20:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael Taft speaks with Loch Kelly on nondual practices, contemporary forms of ancient awareness techniques, dzogchen, mahamudra, advaita, the role of psychotherapy in awakening, the need—or not—for a guru, open-hearted awareness, internal family systems therapy, and more. Loch K...
Ep. 78 – The Three Vital Points
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - June 20, 2019 23:10 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsLama Surya Das explores the three vital points that strike to the heart of the matter of recognizing, exercising, and stabilizing our own Buddha Nature. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Culadasa on Meditation and Therapy
Deconstructing Yourself - June 02, 2019 13:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsIn this special episode, Culadasa talks about the domains of meditation and psychotherapy, where their areas of effectiveness overlap and where they don’t. He also shares a powerful personal story of his own emotional processing work after awakening—why it was needed and how it helped. ...
Ep. 77 - Seeing as It Is, Leaving as It Is
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - May 10, 2019 23:25 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsLama Surya Das explores the non-meditation practices that allow us to open to every aspect of life without reactivity - just seeing as it is, leaving as it is. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info...
Meditation for the End of Civilization, with Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
Deconstructing Yourself - April 21, 2019 14:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsHost Michael W. Taft speaks with bestselling author and meditation teacher Rick Hanson about how to maintain resilience in the face of the coming potential collapse of civilization, the problem with agriculture, meditation methods to build inner strengths, Rick’s upcoming book Neuro-dha...
Ep. 76 – The Great Natural Non-Meditation
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - April 18, 2019 20:56 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsLama Surya Das looks to the sky with naked awareness as he explores the Dzogchen practice of natural non-meditation and offers four ways of cultivating authenticity and presence. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#...
Ep. 75 – Buddhas By Nature
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - March 28, 2019 22:05 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsLama Surya Das explores the practice of Dzogchen, the three higher trainings, and how we are all Buddhas by nature. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
The Liberating Practice of the Fire Kasina, with Daniel Ingram
Deconstructing Yourself - March 27, 2019 13:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsAuthor and meditation teacher Daniel Ingram speaks with host Michael W. Taft about how the Fire Kasina practice can be used as an insight practice. Subjects include: the background of kasina practice in the Thervada tradition, using kasinas to go into jhana, how vipassana practice inter...
Ep. 74 – The Way of Awakening with Ken Wilber
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - March 08, 2019 01:41 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsLama Surya Das sits down with scholar Ken Wilber for a conversation around the evolution of spiritual practice and finding freedom through emptiness. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Meditation, Madness, and Psychology, with Tucker Peck
Deconstructing Yourself - March 08, 2019 01:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsTucker Peck, meditation teacher and clinical psychologist, talks with host Michael Taft about how whether awakening (both in the traditional “stream entry” sense or in other definitions) actually “fixes” a person’s psychology or not. Topics include: the validity of the Progress of Insig...
Ep. 73 – Finding Truth and Enlightenment At Home
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - February 15, 2019 01:59 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsWe don't need to sit on a 20-hour flight to the East to find liberation. Lama Surya Das shares a talk on the possibility of finding truth and freedom right where you are. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-s...
Embodying Awakening, with Mukti
Deconstructing Yourself - February 11, 2019 00:12 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsNondual spiritual teacher Mukti talks with host Michael Taft about the debate between the Direct and Progressive paths of realization, working with energetics and embodiment, her childhood background in the Self Realization Fellowship of Paramahansa Yogananada, pointing out the sense of...
Ep. 72 - Awakening with Mindful Awareness
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - February 02, 2019 01:06 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsThis time on the Awakening Now Podcast, Lama Surya Das examines the importance of cultivating mindful awareness in our journey of awakening. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Deconstructing the Heart Sutra, with Jayarava Attwood
Deconstructing Yourself - January 20, 2019 11:12 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 386 ratingsBuddhist scholar Jayarava Attwood speaks with host Michael Taft about the history of the Pali Canon, how ideas about karma & dependent arising contradict each other, the shifting grounds under the apparent solidity of the suttas, monism vs. pluralism, meditation as a subjective or objec...
Ep. 71 – Paul Samuel Dolman
Awakening Now with Lama Surya Das - January 04, 2019 02:55 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 98 ratingsLama Surya Das is joined by Paul Samuel Dolman for a chat that touches on the importance of remembering our true natures, bringing awareness to social action, and learning to love the world by starting with ourselves. Paul Samuel Dolman is an author, speaker, and host of the What Matte...
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