Exploring Vacancy within the Breath

Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft

One of many core practices of the nondual traditions of Buddhism (also referred to as “essence” or “direct path” traditions) is vipashyana. That is the Sanskrit model of the phrase vipassana (from Pali) that we use extra generally within the West. Vipashyana and vipassana each imply “perception” or “investigation,” and check with the follow of noticing explicit issues about consciousness or its contents.

The 2 practices are, nevertheless, completely different. In vipashyana we’re not simply “sitting with issues as they’re” or “being with what’s” in a passive and considerably impartial method. Slightly, because the phrase itself tells us, we’re actively investigating expertise. Usually, the follow is to note explicit qualities of expertise, equivalent to its impermanence or vacancy. In nondual follow, we’re nearly at all times investigating the vacancy, constructedness, unfindability, or dependently co-arisen of some phenomena or of consciousness itself.

On this guided meditation, we use vipshyana to flip the primary part of the meditation on its head, in a fashion of talking. Once we started with shamatha with an object, we have been utilizing the bodily sensations of the breath, with their obvious solidity or stability, as a type of anchor for the thoughts. As soon as the thoughts is stabilized, we use the readability of consciousness to note that the physique sensations of respiration are fairly empty! That’s, their obvious solidity or stability is a mirage; they’re ephemeral, nebulous, and ever-changing.

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