Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft
The conscious considering mind is great and solving certain sorts of problems, or understanding things in certain contexts. These are the kinds of questions the conscious considering mind is well-suited to unravel. There’s one other class of problems or questions, nevertheless, for which the linear, rational mind is profoundly inadequate. It’s not that it solves them poorly or slowly, it’s that it could actually never solve them or understand them in any way. Total fail.
Fortunately, now we have one other resource available as human beings, what we would call the “wisdom mind.” The wisdom mind is nonlinear, transrational, and profoundly mysterious to the on a regular basis mind. It’s here that we go to know or answer a totally different type of query: The wisdom mind is great at engaging with these kinds of open-ended, hard-to-define questions.
In inquiry practice we drop a matter into the well of the wisdom mind, and listen for the echoes that return. We aren’t using the considering mind, the verbal rational intelligence. We drop out of that entirely. That is more like waiting for the reply in a dream, or within the spontaneous colourful drawing of a baby.
On this video, Michael leads a guided meditation for one hour. As usual we do shamatha with and without an object. Then, Michael asks inquiry questions intended to bring about vital insights.
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