One-hour guided nondual meditation by Michael Taft
Meditation sequence:
1:30 – Posture steering
3:57 – Rousing bodhicitta
5:17 – Shamatha with an object (breath) and guided rest
21:14 – Dissolving on the outbreath
40:47 – Shamatha with out an object
50:43 – “Simply look!”
55:40 – Return to shamatha with out an object
1:01:46 – Dharma speak and many others., lasting about 30 min.
If the issues we expertise in meditation have any relevance in any respect, then they need to be evident to us instantly. It’s one thing just like the outdated Philip Okay. Dick line, “Actuality is that which, if you cease believing in it, doesn’t go away.” In different phrases, the reply to all of your meditation questions, life conundrums, non secular issues, and so forth is instantly evident to you. It doesn’t matter whether or not the “right” reply or not. Simply search for your self, proper now! That’s the pith instruction for this meditation, and—if you happen to determine to make use of it that manner—for all times basically.
After getting targeted and spending a while within the unsupported focus state (i.e. Shamatha with out an object), Michael guides viewer by a sequence of inquiry questions. You’ll not discover the proper solutions to those questions in your reminiscence, nor by eager about them. It’s like being requested if it’s raining outdoors. One of the simplest ways to reply the query is to open the drapes and easily search for your self, to not look it up on an app.
Too typically we take the stance that non secular teachings and meditations are about studying the precise solutions after which remembering them and with the ability to regurgitate them on demand. That is simply brain-washing, and doesn’t signify perception. Perception comes from trying (-sight) inside (in-) instantly. Because the Buddha stated, “see for your self.”
Michael strongly emphasizes the phrase “simply look!” again and again to encourage you to chop by the timidity, the hesitance, the need to “do it proper,” the necessity for solutions. To chop by the habit to the considering thoughts, and the necessity to depend on linear rational conceptualization. Simply look! Now!
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