This Extraordinary Moment: Meditative Inquiry w/ John Astin

This episode explores the paradox of reality's clearly appearing as phenomena at the same time, the phenomena it appears as, cannot be found as pin-downable "things."

In this episode, I explore the perspective of there being one thing here (call it the perspective of the Whole, of this that is inclusive of everything) and the sense of this perspective being absent of any struggle or conflict. 

This episode explores the ever-present flow of being, the sheer existence of everything, and the never-ending nourishment inherent to it.

This episode highlights the way in which all that's appearing, even the so-called "inanimate" material world, is only known as experience and as experience, everything is alive.

This episode explores the way in which we are literally awakening to presence in each instant as every moment that appears IS the movement of presence itself.

This Episode explores the presence that's always here, this light of existence that is always on.

This episode explores the way in which each moment spontaneously lets go of itself owing to reality's inherently dynamic, ever-transforming nature.

This episode explores the way in which each moment is set free in the very instant it appears owing to reality's ever-shifting, ever-transforming nature.

We think we need to let go of certain things (identities, thoughts) but the truth is that reality lets go of itself in each flash moment.

This episode explores the deep-seated assumption we have that at the center of experience, there is a findable experiencer, an individual who is separate from whatever is being experienced.

This episode points to the way in which all that appears reveals the absolute reality that is everything.

This episode points the listener back to the ever-present presence of reality itself that can never be lost.

This episode explores the "suchness" or sheer existence of each moment.

In this episode, I share a piece of recent writing that explores the ceaseless flow of experiencing and the implications of seeing that for our lives.

This episode invites the listener to notice the way in which Life itself allows everything to be, exactly as it is, because it IS everything that is.

In this episode, I focus on the absolute simplicity of Being itself, the fact that it is already here, being everything.

In this episode, I read and comment on a chapter (Nothing Required) from my newest book, "Everything is the Doorway."

In this episode, the listener is invited to feel the sense of aliveness to discover its fundamentally unresolvable, mysterious nature.

This episode explores the paradox of reality always slipping away (and hence impossible to pin down) yet always being here.

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.