Meditation and Memory with Anthony Metivier
Host Michael Taft talks with author and memory expert Anthony Metivier about using memory techniques to enhance meditation, memorizing and reciting scriptures in dead languages as a spiritual practice...
7 Okt 20241h 10min
Practicing the Diamond Sutra with Ken McLeod
Host Michael Taft speaks with eminent Buddhist teacher, translator, and author Ken McLeod about how to use the Diamond Sutra as a practice text. What is the sutra really getting at? Is it merely an an...
24 Jul 202446min
Original Love with Henry Shukman
Host Michael Taft talks with meditation teacher and author Henry Shukman about love, original love vs. original sin, wellbeing intense enough to be called “blessedness,” seeing your original face outs...
9 Jul 202456min
Practicing Tummo with Peter McEwen
Host Michael Taft speaks with meditation coach Peter McEwen about the traditional Tibetan Buddhist practice of tummo, deity yoga, the subtle body, ways that tummo practice can go wrong, bliss and seme...
25 Jun 202453min
Jhanas, Technology, and Tradition with Stephen Zerfas
Host Michael Taft speaks with entrepreneur and meditator Stephen Zerfas on using technology to potentially enhance the learning of the jhanas, Zerfas’ background in meditation and jhana practice, and ...
1 Mai 202441min
Embodying the 21 Taras with Chandra Easton.
Host Michael Taft speaks with meditation teacher Chandra Easton about her new book Embodying Tara: 21 Manifestations to Awaken Your Innate Wisdom, the background of Green Tara, why there are 21 differ...
6 Mar 202452min
Can You Learn Meditation from an AI? - with Shinzen Young
Host Michael Taft talks with teacher Shinzen Young about Shinzen's decades-long dream of computer-based meditation instruction, his current creation of a rule-based, expert system based on Artificial ...
6 Feb 20241h
A Conversation with Jeffrey Kripal
Host Michael Taft speaks with author and professor Jeffrey Kripal about his early aspiration to be a Benedictine monk, the prophetic dimensions of the humanities, the sudden conversion, or "flip," int...
22 Jan 202449min
