This Extraordinary Moment: Meditative Inquiry w/ John Astin
This podcast is drawn from weekly meetings hosted by John Astin, author of the book, "This Extraordinary Moment." In these recorded sessions, John introduces a novel approach to meditative inquiry that invites the listener into a deep exploration of moment-to-moment experience, one that reveals the myriad ways reality transcends everything we imagine it to be and points to the profoundly liberating implications of this discovery.
This One Presence
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.
The Mystery Doing Everything
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.
The Root
This episode explores the "root," investigating what is most fundamental about every experience, namely its boundless, unresolvable infinity.
The Mystery Doing Everything
In this episode, I invite the listener to notice what's doing everything, the mysterious energy that fuels each and every momentary arising.
Pure Magic
Hi this talk, I explore the mysterious and magical nature of everything that appears.
Like Sunlight Filling Space
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.
The Feeling of Everything
In this episode, the listener is invited into the felt sense and presence of everything.
The Edge of You
This guided meditation explores the presumed edges or boundaries we imagine separate us from whatever we think of as not us.
The Mystery of Presence
In this guided exploration, John points to the sheer presence of everything that appears and the ultimate mystery that it is.
This Infinity That You Are
In this episode, John explores the boundless, infinite nature of us and everything.
