Effortless Nondual Awareness

if you guys can move forward bring your chairs forward that'd be great let's try to get a little closer oh there's that part forgot the microphone thank you Katie there we go instant feedback okay welcome everybody can you hear me okay that should be easy right yeah so I'm Michael Taft and we're gonna sit for an hour hopefully with minimal movement um sometimes we stretch first and so on but tonight we're just gonna Dive In so uh we'll just begin is everyone in the door is closed everyone settled in good so let's uh start by asking yourself what's it like to be me right now and really check what's it like to be you right now in the most General sense how's your body feel how are your emotions doing what's the state of your mind well just kind of what's the weather report from being you so just give yourself a good check-in like that and whatever the weather report is clear skies and sunny or a tsunami mixed with a hail store I'm mixed with a tornado that's okay just let it be perfectly fine to be that way right now so we're checking in and and essentially completely accepting and allowing what whatever's happening not trying to change it or control it or judge it or celebrate it even but simply let it be just the way it is let's just do that for a minute or two together good now I want you to imagine that you're sitting like a tree to pretend whatever it means for you that you're going to sit this evening like a tree but part of that is imagining that you have roots that go down all the way to the Center of the Earth this is quite a large tree way down tremendously deep and Powerful roots that not only give tremendous stability but also tap into the most primordial life force so really feel those roots all the way down to the Center of the Earth and outward giving tremendous stability and tremendous life force again we're just imagining here and then another part of this tree is that the branches and leaves go up to the top of the sky and fill out throughout tremendous vast sky and of course just as we are as people as a tree we are a living being there is the sap running through the tree there's various energies running through the tree it's a living system it's beautiful and powerful and alive receiving so much light on the leaves in the sky and so much life force from The Roots down to the Center of the Earth so vibrating with life into energy and stability so just feel that in your imagination and notice that as this tree there's a certain sense of nobility and beauty this vast tree has a kind of inherent nobility that each of us has and tremendous Beauty and it's naturally beautiful there's many more things we can say about a tree but for that would be really powerful and interesting but for the meditation just also notice that this tree accepts itself completely tree does not judge its bark or somehow not like a turn of its Branch or something it's utterly accepting of itself it's wide open and a tree knows how to be still knows how to keep the same pose for decades without any strain or effort so see if you can notice that kind of relaxed open Stillness that has a sense of beauty and nobility and tremendous groundedness like a tree notice that the tree is also incredibly welcoming feels a sense of openness and love and welcoming for you know birds that may come by or squirrels or whatever as others other beings come by the tree is welcoming and loving and also a good host the tree provides shade in which it's comfortable to rest even for a meditating Buddha the tree provides a wonderful spot a protected spot we always think about the Buddha meditating under the tree but think about the tree welcoming and protecting and providing a loving nurturing presence for the Buddha is it like a Bodhi Tree of Awakening good now you can let go of that visualization or that imagination but still feeling those qualities tune into your breath as it rises and follows Falls the rising and falling breath but don't do this in a tight narrow microscopic way let it be really open really open doesn't take any focus at all in fact the awareness the open awareness just is aware of the breath rising and falling in a very pleasant way don't narrow anything let it be wide wide open maybe the breath is just like one little squirrel running up and down the trunk a tasker running up and down the trunk so just tune in and feel the breath rising and falling and as you're doing that I'm just going to invite you to relax your forehead and your eyebrows feel that relaxation coming into the face of the cheeks and mouth and lips let's let that naturally release and just feel open and soft you know how good it feels to relax any tight expression and the same with your throat and neck and shoulders we're not going to do yoga or anything we're just inviting the tension to drain away tension drains all the way down through the roots back into the center of the Earth and simply leaves a more spacious open relaxed feeling in the neck and throat and shoulders you might feel your throat doing that thing where your voice lowers because the muscles there relax continuing to just notice the rising and falling of the breath in the vastness of awareness almost like in the background it's just there rising and falling allow now your arms and hands and fingers to become as limp as wet rags so limp you couldn't use them for anything if you tried without tightening them up they're just utterly released not ready to go but almost put away for the moment and as you feel your face and your head and your throat and neck and shoulders and arms and hands feeling that relaxed just tune into how good that feels tune into the pleasantness there we can have a tendency to tune into tightness or what's not relaxing but I want you to tune into what is soft what is released what is open what is free of tension focus on that part and notice that as you do that you drop now into a much deeper place a much more open and effortless and Wide Awake place bright clear awareness but tremendous gentle soft openness at the same time and allow that relaxation to impact your chest and diaphragm and your belly so that whole part of your torso in the front and in the back just inviting it to release and open allowing any tension again to drain away drain down into the Earth leaving a sense of peacefulness and softness gentleness openness in the body and at the same time quiet awakeness not sleepy or dreamy but quite clear quite bright quite Sharp and notice how that lack of tension in your belly but your belly just becomes soft and easy and open but that really feels good and allows that sense of the rising and falling breath to be a little clearer maybe a little more forward in the vast Sky of awareness itself that belly feels so good breathing and then let the pelvic region relax the hips relax tension draining away from your legs and feet into the Earth which greedily accepts it Earth loves that leaving just a sense of freedom and gentleness and openness in the legs and feet the legs become as soft and gentle as wet rags no tension at all and as that last bit of tension leaves the body just feel the entire body now dropping just a little more completely into openness and ease a much more profound sense of Stillness the kind of Stillness that comes from relaxation and notice that if your eyes are closed the eyelids are so relaxed can't actually open them without tightening them so notice that try to open them you can't do it unless you tighten them but they're so relaxed they're actually kind of stuck shut and the same thing with your arms and hands of course if you tightened them you could move them but at this point they're so relaxed that if you leave them relaxed you actually can't move them and that sense of tremendous relaxed Stillness then permeates the entire body so much that except for breathing again unless you tense it up can't move so relaxed it's like Dill perfectly still just breathing gently but other than that can't move doesn't want to move enjoying the Stillness the wide awake still it's very bright mind and this is the interesting thing because that relaxed Stillness in the body permeates the mind as well so the Mind finds it kind of relaxed Stillness also hopefully noticing the rising and falling the effortless up and down motion of the breath without any effort and without any potential utterly tension free resisting nothing changing nothing so let's sit together for a little while here simply very relaxed very awake allowing the Sky of the mind to Simply rest in itself as the breath Rises and Falls within it notice that it takes zero effort to be aware the awareness is always already there noticing the breath rising and falling without tightening or narrowing at all and notice how good that feels it's inherently Pleasant to return to our natural state of relaxed open awareness that's naturally awake without any effort it's foreign foreign good now just let awareness fill all of space and if it seems like anything at all is in the way of that just recognize that that's just an idea that's just a mental construct something you're keeping solid in your mind but no there's a wall there just let go of those constructs and allow awareness to Simply fill all of the space without any boundary without any obstruction without any limit of any kind it's boundless boundless awareness or we could say boundaryless and again every place where it seems like it's not that just notice that that is just an idea and just gently let go of that idea and just what if it just fills all space without any boundary without any ideas blocking it and feel what that feels like but tremendously vast awareness I've noticed that it does that in all directions even straight down fills all space in that direction with no boundary straight back fills all space with no boundary straight up and in all directions have replace your encountering a boundary is just an idea just a concept we let go of that concept and notice the boundarylessness it just Falls open to vastness without limit notice that vastness right now boundaryless boundless awareness again if there's any direction that you're encountering a boundary notice the boundary is just in your mind and then see through it allow it to just dissolve or fall away it's just in your mind and notice the opening that follows good now I ask you this question and I want you to look at what answer arises how long has this awareness been here how long has this vast boundless awareness been here look right now don't come up with an answer from ideas of how long you think it's been but look directly at it how long has it been here you look directly you'll notice there's kind of two ways to answer that you either say it's always been here or that question doesn't make any sense because time doesn't really apply to awareness it's in a Timeless place some people like to say well it's always in the now but it's not even in the now because that's a Time expression the now is only situated between the past and the future this is timeless it's outside of time it's eternal in other words notice that you've learned to construct a Time box in your head but that's inside awareness awareness is not inside time so just drop the time box and notice that awareness is naturally free and timeless as well as boundless not some special State it's just the way it is when I say it's Timeless sometimes people think sometimes people think that I mean they're going to see the big bang or all at once or you know some kind of Science Fiction future but it's not like that it's just outside of time time is a construct in your mind so let's let that construct go and you'll notice awareness is free it's timeless it's easy effortless Wide Awake good so we have this boundless Timeless awareness that's already Wide Awake without any effort simply by dropping some of the constructs that we work so hard to maintain just letting those go in other words not working hard to keep them in place they just fall open and we're left with boundless Timeless Wide Awake awareness that we already always already have now what's happening in that awareness right now hear the sounds are you doing anything to hear sound they're just naturally aware the crows agree feel the air on your skin feel the cushion Beneath You Feel The Comfort or pain in your legs or back are you doing anything on purpose to feel all that or is it just simply there in Awareness without any effort notice all the thoughts arising thoughts are fine we're not against thoughts does it take any effort to notice those or even more interestingly does it take any effort to have them or do they just run on their own in your body notice the emotions that are arising maybe sadness Maybe fear maybe frustration maybe Joy Maybe peace maybe all of the above at once [Music] all those emotions are simply there in Awareness presenting themselves without any effort just there doing their thing what's an awareness I asked you what is an awareness everything 's all right where's the sense of somebody doing something here I am I'm doing my meditation where's that that's just something arising in Awareness without anybody doing anything awareness does not do anything and accomplishes everything notice that now the entire world arises within awareness not the other way around boundless Timeless awakeness that we always already are let's rest as that now aware of everything without any effort don't do anything just let awareness be good now look carefully right now where is the awareness coming from what's its source it's boundless Timeless the entire world is arising within it entire sense of self is arising within it where is it coming from look look again where's its source is there like a fountain of awareness in the center of the head or like some kind of awareness tube with awareness raises coming out of it where is it coming from notice you can't find it it's not coming from anywhere look as hard as you want right now you can't find a source isn't that crazy there's one Central fact about existence you're aware right now and you can't find where it comes from it doesn't come from anywhere it's just there good look what's awareness made of what's it made of hint it's not made of anything it's not coming from anywhere it's not made of anything and yet experience is present as deep as you look you won't be able to find any cognons or part you know particles of awareness the sense of you and the entire world and all the beings in it arise within awareness and awareness itself isn't even a thing notice that now in your own experience your experience of yourself and the whole world is just floating like a dream in itself vibrantly clear shockingly bright vivid intense and yet groundless empty now notice the property of awareness that it's so open it accepts everything every side every sound every feeling every thought every being awareness rejects nothing and this non-rejection this tremendous openness is a kind of welcoming presence so not in your mind not in your body not in emotions but in your in in the awareness itself feel this welcoming acceptance of everything unconditional welcoming presence for everything and everyone it's right there you don't have to make it up or try to have some feeling of something it's that welcoming presence is right there nothing is rejected no one is tossed out including you just exactly the way you are without any change whatsoever completely welcome completely accepted just the way you are right now now meditate like a tree feel your groundedness in the Earth with your branches up into the heavens and then just let go of that again [Music] good in Timeless time it's Crow o'clock my favorite time so we'll end the meditation there feel free to move and stretch meaning to have a meditation when there's a whole movement class going on right there a lot of moving and stretching happening sonically it's kind of interesting thank you so before I kind of fall into whatever I feel like pontificating about I notice that we've got a quite a number of bright bright item bushy Tales brilliant people in here this evening so let's just I'll just invite uh your curiosity so feel free to raise your hand and um report on your experience or whatever whatever questions you might have and we'll see what we can do with those as a group okay everything okay out there good yes what is your name again one of these is Sam I remember it someday um yeah sort of I found much of that easy incident the observations that's what you're describing that the the timelessness thing I sort of didn't know how to lapse onto that it felt I was sort of felt this this underlying ground that felt Timeless in the way that like the floor that we're sitting on feels painless great no perception of it changing but it sounds like you're describing something no that's about it yeah yeah it's not that it's not changing but but that it's not as I said like sometimes people think it's going to be really psychedelic to go Timeless but it's really the opposite it's very feels really just like time doesn't apply right and that feels really either kind of still or open has a lot of space might be kind of um but also kind of normal it's just we're not applying the time box and you can really note it like if you get the move the move is easy just drop the time box you realize every day since you were about five you learned how to assemble the time box and so we're just used to doing that effort but it's a thing you can just not do right it's a habit that you cannot do and if you drop it everything's still there but there's no time box so yeah that sounds pretty reasonable what you're describing it's a very nice thing to let go of it's not hard people make it hard but it's not is that it I think describing describing it as a movement yeah movement in the sense of like you know a a thing you can stop doing um that kind of idea of a move I've got to move yeah it's just a a habit that we can not not engage in but when it's sort of the hard part is noticing the thing that's doing it and then and then going once you notice it though it's easy to go oh okay don't have to do that and then it's just timeless and what's interesting again is that that's not even now because now is a Time idea it just feels Eternal or Timeless or something like that or like time is irrelevant awesome what else is out there you guys feeling like trees Steven relation can you explain what a fruition is and how somebody so if you can't hear the question online or even up here it's Steven's asking can I explain what a fruition is um I will give my explanation it'll probably be kind of wrong but it's how I think about it right and it'll be kind of wrong because I'm I'm not gonna that that you that word is from a particular part of a particular tradition but I don't really think of it within those tradition boxes exactly so I'm not going to give you the kind of like super traditional answer okay but I would just say a fruition just like it sounds it's the culmination of um a particular like uh kind of like wave of meditation meditative insight so one of the things people think that meditation is about relaxation but of course if I go I'm from Michigan right if I go back to Michigan and people are I meet someone that knew me 30 years ago they'll be like oh what do you do and I'm like well I'm a meditation teacher and they'll say oh I need to relax I need to relax that's what you do right you teach people to relax and you know you guys were in here I show people how to relax a little bit but there's more to do right and so as one of the things we're trying to do is have insights uh into the nature of ourselves the nature of the world Etc and so we can kind of think of particular uh I don't know particular movements or waves of meditation as culminating in an insight and that movement or wave might take hours or weeks or months but it's as we're going deeper and opening and getting clearer and going deeper and opening and getting clearer eventually we may have quite a profound insight into the nature of our sense of self or into the nature of the world and that's the fruition of that wave of insight right and classically those would be very particular insights but I think that uh as long as they are of a certain nature and depth I would call that a fruition usually something to do with seeing some of the things we were looking at here tonight just very clearly like oh the sense of self is just something arising in Awareness it doesn't have any actual basis or location or kind of like it doesn't exist on its own something like that seemed very deeply and very clearly would be a fruition in my way of understanding um classically that would you would get that Insight after having like a kind of Lights Out brief cessation type experience but it doesn't have to happen that way as far as I'm concerned there's other ways that those insights can arise it does that even partially answer your question okay other stuff coming from that direction I mean the word really is Fala right which is the word fruit so it's fruition meaning you know you've grown this whole tree and finally you get sort of the final result so the Insight comes from all the work I need to buy extension I'm also interested can you speak up give me more you're saying what's a cessation yes yes I think I've heard that they sometimes happen that you may not notice tune into that sure they you can have cessation without fruition cessation is simply when meditative Insight grows sufficiently uh clear you know the concentration and Clarity and Equanimity reaches a place where um there's no fabrication whatsoever of any sensory arising and so uh the entire system can just basically stop for a moment zero sensory arising and even zero sense of awareness for a moment and it's very easy to mistake things that are like that for it so I'm reluctant to you know give anything but a really long description but I'll I'll still give a short description and say you know it's not just like falling asleep or nodding out or something because after a cessation uh there's a very distinct sense of the Mind re having to reboot all the way from the bottom up so it's not like when you're screensaver go you know like blanks out for a minute and you touch the keep the trackpad and the whole thing comes back it's more like reboot and you watch the everything rebuild so it's very distinct thing and I think there's some unique opportunities there for when that happens but that typically comes about doesn't have to but it typically comes about from very kind of narrow microscopic very very high speed uh High Clarity type of practice um but not always can happen even from very wide open very very uh non -attentive type practice but with a lot of just wakefulness so what was the other part of that that's good yeah is that making any sense at all to you critiques comments that's that's great yeah uh it would be pretty hard to miss I know people say you can miss it but I I don't think that's possible honestly I think I think uh when I've heard people say that it's usually saying that other Traditions really have them but just don't notice which to me no they don't you notice it so pretty hard to miss uh yes sunny can you ask them both at the same time no okay it's like a curiosity so obviously a lot of people praying mental question I'm curious a lot of what Kerry yeah something I noticed in my body is that I have a persistently like I'm like doing this sure I understand that kind of thing like as part of my like as part of my being like sure yeah yeah what's your understanding of it it's a mystery okay so I mean uh the mind uh put your hand out clench your fist now uncle how does that work I mean we can talk about the Neurology of it and all that we have a pretty good understanding but you know really how the intention to move arises and all that if we go deep enough that's pretty hard to unpack we can unpack it fairly deeply but eventually it's sort of like why does anyone want to do anything but okay somewhere in there there's uh desire to act desire to take action right and it's moving those muscles or causing the muscles to move but what's interesting is we think of that as very short term very temporary I'm going to pick up a coffee cup I'm going to you know brush my forehead or whatever but what if some parts of your mind just are holding an action same thing it's not any different than this it's just but these muscles here are doing that and not stopping holding so what's the cure we go in there and find the thing that's holding and just relax it but that might be really really deep in there right and it may have been have been doing it so long that even the muscles uh kind of need to relearn how to relax right if it's really a pattern that's been over decades or whatever so I would just say um doing embodied exploration of that area can be really really really helpful but you'll find eventually I mean because you're alive it's not stuck there's just something to find to relax okay and again if it's if it's been over a really long time might not want to just relax it might need to be kind of like stretched open to relearn its relaxed position okay does that make any sense that was part one speak really loud please and I felt this like I felt like somebody turned a big light up like lay on yeah it was like very white and then just like fell down and I don't know what that is that's a meditation experience yeah it's super wonderful um but you you can't say what it is more than to say that's a good meditation experience and it's probably energizing and clarifying and uh motivating and all that but it's also a special experience it's not like every time you meditate that's going to happen or that's a goal like we could make it like okay sonny I want that to happen every time so here's what we're going to do and that doesn't really help so what we do is just go that's a great experience okay next you know just come back and sit some more but it's of course a good thing right it's something nice occurred and I could talk about energy or gray all these different ways of of describing it but it really just boils down to that's awesome keep going don't get stuck there don't think that that's the thing even though that's wonderful right it's really easy for us to try to get real conceptual around that stuff and it's better to just let it be something beautiful and leave it at that other stuff yes it's Jacob or what's your name um in today's meditation I'm just giving you the total you know yeah uh in today's meditation um after the tree and the relaxing the body yeah more like non-dual stuff I found I could not follow it at all good I I had this buzzing in my head that's totally fine the questions you were posing like my mind was just like not then engaged with that great how'd that feel um yeah so I said your mind just opens and Falls open and relaxes great you know you're never required to follow the meditation I want you to stay awake you know you were awake right yeah you were you're sitting upright the whole time um but just reminds why to Wide Open Wide Awake clear not following the concepts totally fine let's let that let that be the way it is yeah great yes I had a question about interaction around spaciousness yes I struggle with that like I very relaxed and still but yet like it's not other than setting the intention it doesn't go beyond that thing what would it mean for you to if it went how would you know if it went beyond that what would what would be proof positive that it was spacious so how do you know it's not happening okay so that's that's not a bad answer so all I would say is uh we can go about it very technically and say if if we start looking at the mental images present in your mind you'll see when even with your eyes closed there's a mental image of a wall over there and a mental image of the ceiling but those are just mental images they're not actual boundaries and so if we either like kind of see through the like we see that those are mental images not actual boundaries that's enough but once we see through them we might be able to just kind of relax them either way the the seeing through of the mental boundary releases into a sense of it just feels spacious and what you realize you're doing just like there's a time box there's a space box you keep putting yourself in and it's really useful for not bumping into walls when you're walking around but there's no reason to keep it going when you're just sitting still and so I want you to learn to recognize the space box you're making there's a floor here there's walls here there's a ceiling there and you're always doing that and it's just a video game you're playing in your head and if you can clearly notice that video game then it's very easy to relax it okay so if there's a lot of ways we can do that we could do really technical vapassana on mental images until you noticed those arising so right now think of how you would leave out the front door did you see a series of pictures sort of okay so with a lot of meditative Clarity you would see those pictures very clearly it's just semi-conscious right now but those those aren't that's a space box you're making right so close your eyes right now think of the room you're in people in at the ceiling the walls the floor all that that's just a picture in your head right now just let go of the picture or the sense of those being there and you'll feel like oh in inside awareness there's just space I can build these conceptual walls and that's useful but I can also let go of them are you getting a feel for that yeah I'm looking for a lightning bolt but it's not gonna happen it's the same thing with the the question Yeah Yeah by John Cleese um just like the timelessness It doesn't turn into something super trippy it's just oh that feels nice it's space space now this room so that's all yeah it's not hard if you if you just get it that there's a game your brain is playing and we just want you to just rest that game for a minute excellent these are great questions anything else something deeper than like what's a fruition [Music] Tatiana in a way that we're meditating is having suspicious I can't hear you I'm sorry in the way that we're is it even helpful to have Sensations yes but we're not trying to so that's what's funny I mean if that happens that's great um because again watching all the concepts build back is very useful and even in even in non-dual Traditions we can talk about penetrating the the substrate of the mind and beneath that is the open awareness the real big open awareness so there there's it's useful if someone can do that we can certainly leverage that on the other hand there's other ways to get at the same thing that don't require that so there's another way I'm not sure what you're asking so if you're not having cessations are there any things any other things that what we just did so you're always looking for the boundlessness the timelessness the fact that all the sensory arisings are happening in the awareness not the other way around so technically that's real vipassana in this tradition instead of looking for impermanence and no self and suffering like you would do in traditional papasana here with vapassana we're just looking for emptiness um what does that mean note for example emptiness of time notice that time is a mental construct you're keeping going and you can just not keep it going there it doesn't even have to stop you're just not making a thing out of it it's empty oh notice that you're building a spatial 3D kind of stage of the world around you all the time in your mind and that's just a Constructor making you don't have to stop the construct but notice it's a construct now that scene is empty right so we're seeing all of those things including the sense of self including um the sense of the world around you including very particularly the sense of doership that's a very very important one to see The Emptiness of that's what we're looking for those are the insights and as we see the emptiness of all those things at once you're just left with this um a tremendous awakeness that is also empty and that that's just the beginning okay but that's what you're looking for and you do it on purpose just like when we do real vipassana it's not I'm just going to be with what is it's I'm going to particularly look for three things I'm going to look for impermanence I'm going to look for the lack of a sense of self I'm going to look for you know unsatisfactoriness or Duke or whatever you're specifically trying to see a thing about reality or a thing about experience in in the non-dual uh precursors we're looking for emptiness right so it's super important to get what Emptiness is and be able to notice it directly so even if you don't you notice I I think I only use the word emptiness once tonight and it was on an accident so I was just pointing to emptiness without ever saying that word okay so it's the same as saying it is empty is the same as saying it is a mental construct doesn't mean it's not there but it's also not there in the way that we tend to think it is it's there as a mental construct so once we see all the mental constructs as fundamentally what they are mental constructs what's left is really interesting and again even that is just a beginning place okay the those are the precursors yeah awesome all right those are some some great questions so we're going to switch now or switch gears I'm going to try to not rip this out of the wall or off my belt as I typically do I'm going to switch to Katie telling you what an alembic is and then and then me jumping back in to do some advertising we all know what an Olympic because it's a thing that you put stuff into we established that like three weeks ago don't need to do it okay um well first of all uh I know you want to talk about this too but uh Michael has a brand new course that he's offering and uh it starts in October and it's 12 weeks and if you've been if you've been coming to these sits you have a sense of um what goes on in the course but these sits are kind of um they're like each you can drop in any time right um yeah or if you've been following Along on YouTube you can kind of pop in and out of these Thursday night sits the course is 12 weeks long and it's structured so it's it's like the instruction manual for these sets like what's real what's really going on behind you know behind the scenes rather than just kind of a one-off that you can follow along yeah and so you can sign up for that if you're on his mailing list you already got an announcement about that and if you're not if you go to deconstructing yourself.org it's there that's the name of the club the course the class is called vast Sky mind and um probably yeah probably if you Google like Michael Taft vast Sky mind you'll be able to find it probably presumably uh but yeah deconstructing yourself.org is where you go to sign up for that thank you for that yeah so I'm the teaching assistant for it so we do um we have the class which is lecture and guidance and then you get put in a pod with other students and you get to meet with the other students in the class one so we can talk to them and then once a week we have a q a with me and a few other uh people um to just do practice q a so it's really fun highly recommend it especially for you guys on internet land can't be here but you you folks in the room also um so look into that the we'll just keep going on the Michael train for a second uh there's also the patreon so if you're not on the patreon um just go to patreon look for Michael Taft there's two amas a month and the next one is tomorrow morning um so there we just all hop on Zoom for an hour and just um basically ask Michael about cessations and fruitions for an hour straight and he gives a different answer every week it's great um so so if you join the patreon tonight there's like what a 80 chance you'll make it 100 100 we've got the tax guarantee that if you're join us tonight uh you will come to the AMA tomorrow so that's tomorrow morning um okay alembic stuff coming up on Sunday uh from six to eight pm we have Tucker Peck and kind and tan visiting us all the way from Australia um they'll be doing a workshop yeah Tucker all the way from Alameda across a bridge one night only um they're doing a workshop on meditation and psychology uh and when is it appropriate to use these different lenses um when is it inappropriate basically they're just going to shout at each other for two hours and we're gonna watch it's gonna be great um there'll be some meditation there'll be some q a and then we're going for tacos afterwards so that's Sunday night from six to eight and then we'll have tacos um and then coming up on the movement side of things every month for four Mondays in a row starting this Monday we have ronyaver who is like deep in contact improv World um doing a four-week like sort of short residency here on Monday evening so you can go to one of those you can go to all four um highly recommend that if you're looking to introduce like some movement uh into your into your Zone that will be on Mondays and then of course starting on September 20th we have Chandra Easton here in this room uh on Tuesday evenings I think that's all um please donate yeah if you haven't donated please do if you haven't had a cessation yet please do um and uh yeah back to you Michael thank you I think you covered it all right so excellent okay thanks sir oh stay for tea see you in love thanks everyone thank you Michael thank you very much

Channel: Michael Taft

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Keywords: meditation, mindfulness, vipassana, relaxation, buddhism, dharma, nondual, mahayana, vajrayana, zen, dzogchen, awareness, guided meditation, visualization, tantra, effortless

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Length: 92min 45sec (5565 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 09 2022