This Extraordinary Moment: Meditative Inquiry w/ John Astin
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.
Episodes
47 episodes
This Magical Appearing
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.
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15:48
Life, at Ease with 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...
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13:55
What's at the Center of Experience?
This episode explores the sense we have of being a subject, an individual, existing at the center of experience and circumstance.
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16:32
Nothing Needs to Change for This to Be
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.
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12:41
Stay with the Mystery of This
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.
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16:35
Zero Duration Yet Always Here
In this episode, I explore the paradox that even as reality keeps disappearing, something always seems to be here.
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18:48
Everything is Present
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..
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17:01
This That Is Doing Everything
This episode invites the listener to feel the mystery (of life, existence) that is doing everything, the "engine" or force underlying all that appears.
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16:24
The Present Moment Can't Be Found (And Yet, Here It Is!)
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.
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20:16
This One Presence
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.
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18:57
The Mystery Doing Everything
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.
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22:25
The Root
This episode explores the "root," investigating what is most fundamental about every experience, namely its boundless, unresolvable infinity.
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21:57
Pure Magic
Hi this talk, I explore the mysterious and magical nature of everything that appears.
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20:06
Like Sunlight Filling Space
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.
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15:51
The Feeling of Everything
In this episode, the listener is invited into the felt sense and presence of everything.
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12:25
The Edge of You
This guided meditation explores the presumed edges or boundaries we imagine separate us from whatever we think of as not us.
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15:35
The Mystery of Presence
In this guided exploration, John points to the sheer presence of everything that appears and the ultimate mystery that it is.
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15:56
This Infinity That You Are
In this episode, John explores the boundless, infinite nature of us and everything.
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20:02
I AM
In this guided exploration, John invites the listener into the primal sense of existence/being ("I AM") to discover its all-inclusive nature.
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16:20
This Beautiful Paradox
This episode explores the paradox of Reality's being infinitely differentiated at the same time, never departing from Itself.
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21:59
Everything is the Miracle
In this episode, John points to the omnipresent nature of reality.
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13:00
Paradox of Separation
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.
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17:35
No Things
This episode explores the way in which there are no findable things owing to the dynamic, ever-dissolving nature of reality.
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24:24