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