Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft
Considered one of the core practices of the nondual traditions of Buddhism (also referred to as “essence” or “direct path” traditions) is . That is the Sanskrit version of the word (from Pali) that we use more commonly within the West. Vipashyana and vipassana each mean “insight” or “investigation,” and discuss with the practice of noticing particular things about awareness or its contents.
The 2 practices are, nonetheless, different. In vipashyana we usually are not just “sitting with things as they’re” or “being with what’s” in a passive and somewhat neutral manner. Reasonably, because the word itself tells us, we’re actively investigating experience. Often, the practice is to note particular qualities of experience, corresponding to its impermanence or emptiness. In nondual practice, we’re almost at all times investigating the emptiness, constructedness, unfindability, or dependently co-arisen of some phenomena or of awareness itself.
On this guided meditation, we use vipshyana to flip the primary section of the meditation on its head, in a fashion of speaking. Once we began with shamatha with an object, we were using the physical sensations of the breath, with their apparent solidity or stability, as a sort of anchor for the mind. Once the mind is stabilized, we use the clarity of awareness to note that the body sensations of respiratory are quite empty! That’s, their apparent solidity or stability is a mirage; they’re ephemeral, nebulous, and ever-changing.
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