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
40 episodes
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
The Great Completion
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.
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18:06
Being, the Home We Never Left
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.
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19:04
This Knowing Pervading Everything
This Episode explores the sense of knowing-awareness that pervades every moment.
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15:55
The Body of Experience
In this episode, I explore the transcendental "body," i.e., the undivided body of experiencing itself.
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21:34
Unwavering Presence
This episode explores "presence" (the presence of what is) as an unwavering, ever-present reality, regardless of how things are appearing.
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18:25
This Aliveness
In this guided inquiry, I point to "aliveness" as the common denominator underlying everything that appears.
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14:18
This Magical, Mysterious Being
This guided inquiry explores "being," the primal basis of each and every moment, and its ultimately mysterious, ineffable nature.
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16:51