Are More People Achieving Stream Entry These Days? with Culadasa
In this episode host Michael Taft speaks with meditation teacher, neuroscientist, and author John Yates, also known as Culadasa. Topics covered include: Are more people achieving stream entry these da...
11 Juni 20181h 21min
Emotions, Stress, and Heartbreak, with Eve Ekman
In this episode emotions researcher and meditation teacher Eve Ekman speaks with Michael W. Taft about embodied emotions, the difference between suppression and healthy expression, impermanence of sen...
29 Maj 20181h 28min
Why Good Teachers Go Bad, with Shinzen Young
In this special one-year anniversary episode, Shinzen Young talks with host Michael W. Taft about becoming a meditation teacher, the unrealistic paradigm about what meditation delivers, Shinzen’s code...
18 Maj 20181h 28min
Deconstructing Dependent Arising, with Leigh Brasington
Leigh Brasington speaks with host Michael W. Taft about Dependent Arising. Dependent Arising, also called Dependent Origination, is a Buddhist theory of reality that is famously complex, arcane, impor...
29 Apr 20181h
Seeing Your Blind Spots, with Kelly Boys
Kelly Boys talks with Michael Taft about integral restoration, nondual awakening, the work of Kahneman, spiritual bypassing, gendered aspects of awakening and spiritual teaching, when knowing less is ...
15 Apr 201844min
Popping the Bubble of Projection, with Daniel Ingram
Daniel Ingram talks with Michael W. Taft about teacher-student models, graduate school models of practice, creating meditation peer groups, working with “co-adventurers” on the spiritual path, overcom...
2 Apr 201858min
Standing at the Edge, with Roshi Joan Halifax
Roshi Joan Halifax speaks with host Michael W. Taft about her new book, Standing at the Edge, the shadow sides of altruism, empathy, integrity, respect, engagement, and rays of hope in current times.R...
15 Mars 201845min
Eddies in the Mind Stream, with Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
Rick Hanson and I discuss the tension between accepting how you're feeling and changing how you're feeling, spiritual bypassing, how to cultivate positive states of mind, the quivering potentiality at...
1 Mars 20181h 45min
