This Extraordinary Moment: Meditative Inquiry w/ John Astin

This episode explores the way in which what we call "the moment" never actually fixes, never actually becomes something concretized and the freedom that's realizing by seeing this.

In this episode, I explore the question of whether any separation can be found between experience and what we think of as that which is experiencing (e.g., the self, awareness, etc.).

This episode invites the listener to notice the myriad ways our actual experience deviates from the different ways we hold it to be conceptually.

This inquiry examines the way in which the things we're searching for as humans (openness, equanimity, ease, wakefulness, presence) are actually inherent to life itself. 

This episode explores the ground of being, ever-present as the basis of every momentary perception.

This episode explores some of the well-being implications of discovering the ways in which our experience transcends everything that we think it is.

This episode explores the paradox that while reality is always slipping away owing to its ever-changing, alive nature, it is, at the same time, always here, always present.

In this episode, I explore the way in which nothing that appears can be any more or less the one reality since everything is its unfolding. 

This episode explores the perspective of seeing what is common to all the experiential waves, the :"water" of being that's the very basis of everything.

In this episode, I invite the listener into noticing the way in which reality, in its being present, is always shining, always here.

This episode explores the ever-present knowing underlying all experience.

This episode explores the paradoxical, really magical way in which the whole world of appearance cannot be found as a thing, even as it keeps appearing to be some-thing.

This exploration invites the listener to notice the wholeness of life appears as everything.

In this episode, I point to the way in which reality itself, this wholeness of life being everything, is fundamentally unbreakable, indestructible.

In this guided exploration, the listener is invited to notice what is the same/equal about all experience, despite the obvious differences. For example, all experiences, from the most pleasurable to painful are equal in their being here, their being present, equal in their sheer existence and aliveness, and equal in their fundamental indeterminacy and un-resolvability.

This episode points to a very different approach to meditation, one I sometimes refer to as the meditation of what is, the ever-present flow of experiencing itself.

This episode invites the listener into a different style of meditation, one in which no effort is made to direct attention or any aspect of experience, simply relaxing into the flow of what is.

In this episode, John invites the listener to re-orient the focus of attention from how things seem to be appearing descriptively to the miraculous fact of appearing itself.

In this guided exploration, John invites the listener to notice the way in which the flow of life itself is at ease, never fighting or arguing or struggling with its own appearances, anymore than the ocean struggles with the waves it gives rise to.

This episode explores the sense we have of being a subject, an individual, existing at the center of experience and circumstance. 

In this guided inquiry, John explores how nothing about our experience or circumstance needs to be other than it is for This (reality, life, presence) to be.

This episode explores the ultimate unresolvability of experience, inviting the listener to really revel in that and discover the profound implications of reality's  fathomless nature.

In this episode, I explore the paradox that even as reality keeps disappearing, something always seems to be here.

This episode further explores "Presence" as the basic space/fundamental nature of everything that appears, a presence that doesn't come and go but is always here..

This episode invites the listener to feel the mystery (of life, existence) that is doing everything, the "engine" or force underlying all that appears.

This episode explores the paradox of time, the fact that the moment has no duration, impossible to find as something identifiable owing to its ever-changing nature, and yet appearing as what we call, the world.

In this episode, the listener is invited to notice that everything is present, that presence is the very basis of each momentary perception, regardless of its descriptive label.

What is doing all this? What is beating the heart, breathing the breath, digesting food, making the sun shine, the leaves grow, the thoughts arise? The list is literally endless. This episode explores the mystery doing everything.

This episode explores the "root," investigating what is most fundamental about every experience, namely its boundless, unresolvable infinity.

In this episode, I invite the listener to notice what's doing everything, the mysterious energy that fuels each and every momentary arising.

Hi this talk, I explore the mysterious and magical nature of everything that appears.

In this episode, I explore a metaphor from the Tibetan tradition that likens reality to "sunlight filling space," owing to its ever-present, all-inclusive nature.

In this episode, the listener is invited into the felt sense and presence of everything.

This guided meditation explores the presumed edges or boundaries we imagine separate us from whatever we think of as not us.

In this guided exploration, John points to the sheer presence of everything that appears and the ultimate mystery that it is. 

In this episode, John explores the boundless, infinite nature of us and everything.

In this guided exploration, John invites the listener into the primal sense of existence/being ("I AM") to discover its all-inclusive nature.

This episode explores the paradox of Reality's being infinitely differentiated at the same time, never departing from Itself. 

In this episode, John points to the omnipresent nature of reality.

In this episode, John explores the paradoxical sense of existing in a world made up of different parts and pieces in interaction with one another while at the same time, seeing that experientially, no separation or division can be found.