This Extraordinary Moment: Meditative Inquiry w/ John Astin

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.

In this episode, I explore the paradox that even as reality keeps disappearing, something always seems to be here.

This episode further explores "Presence" as the basic space/fundamental nature of everything that appears, a presence that doesn't come and go but is always here..

This episode invites the listener to feel the mystery (of life, existence) that is doing everything, the "engine" or force underlying all that appears.

This episode explores the paradox of time, the fact that the moment has no duration, impossible to find as something identifiable owing to its ever-changing nature, and yet appearing as what we call, the world.

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.

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.

This episode explores the "root," investigating what is most fundamental about every experience, namely its boundless, unresolvable infinity.

Hi this talk, I explore the mysterious and magical nature of everything that appears.

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.

In this episode, the listener is invited into the felt sense and presence of everything.

This guided meditation explores the presumed edges or boundaries we imagine separate us from whatever we think of as not us.

In this guided exploration, John points to the sheer presence of everything that appears and the ultimate mystery that it is. 

In this episode, John explores the boundless, infinite nature of us and everything.

In this guided exploration, John invites the listener into the primal sense of existence/being ("I AM") to discover its all-inclusive nature.

This episode explores the paradox of Reality's being infinitely differentiated at the same time, never departing from Itself. 

In this episode, John points to the omnipresent nature of reality.

In this episode, John explores the paradoxical sense of existing in a world made up of different parts and pieces in interaction with one another while at the same time, seeing that experientially, no separation or division can be found.

This episode explores the way in which there are no findable things owing to the dynamic, ever-dissolving nature of reality.

In this episode, John highlights the fundamentally unresolvable nature of phenomena, revealing that there are no findable "things" owing to the ever-transforming nature of what appears. 

In this episode, I point to the wholeness of life (which I describe as "Being") and how it is the only thing that exists and is impossible to ever be apart from.

This Episode explores the sense of knowing-awareness that pervades every moment.

In this episode, I explore the transcendental "body," i.e., the undivided body of experiencing itself.