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.
Unstoppable Flow
This guided inquiry highlights the ceaseless, ever-changing flow of reality and the resulting impossibility of ever capturing its nature in thought.
The Miracle of Perceiving
This episode invites the listener into an experiential exploration of the inconceivable miracle that's perceiving every moment.
The Questions are Made of the Answer
The answer to our questions of where our fundamental well-being lies is found in the questions themselves for those questions, like everything else that arises, are made of this vast and inconceivable mystery that moves as everything.
What Never Goes Away
This episode explores the way in which despite all the coming and going of experience, there is something that is always present.
The Is-Ness
This guided talk/inquiry explores the existence or "is-ness" underlying every momentary perception.
The Natural State
This talk/inquiry invites the listener to notice that nothing about what's being experienced needs to be changed for everything that arises is the natural state of things and reality's perfect, unavoidable expression.
The Ungraspable Nature of This
This talk/guided inquiry points to the way in which reality is utterly ungraspable conceptually.
The Presence That Welcomes Everything
This talk/inquiry invites the listener to discover the ever-present presence of life itself that welcomes all its myriad expressions.
This Effortless Shining
This episode points to way in which every moment that appears, regardless of its descriptive label, is the shining forth of reality.
The Magnificent Display
This talk/guided inquiry points to the way in which everything that appears, whether experientially or circumstantially, is the display of this one reality.
