Explore every episode of the podcast This Extraordinary Moment: Meditative Inquiry w/ John Astin

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.

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.

This episode explores "presence" (the presence of what is) as an unwavering, ever-present reality, regardless of how things are appearing.

In this guided inquiry, I point to "aliveness" as the common denominator underlying everything that appears.

This guided inquiry explores "being," the primal basis of each and every moment, and its ultimately mysterious, ineffable nature.

This guided inquiry highlights the ceaseless, ever-changing flow of reality and the resulting impossibility of ever capturing its nature in thought.

This episode invites the listener into an experiential exploration of the inconceivable miracle that's perceiving every moment.

The answer to our questions of where our fundamental well-being lies is found in the questions themselves for those questions, like everything else that arises, are made of this vast and inconceivable mystery that moves as everything. 

This episode explores the way in which despite all the coming and going of experience, there is something that is always present.

This guided talk/inquiry explores the existence or "is-ness" underlying every momentary perception. 

This talk/inquiry invites the listener to notice that nothing about what's being experienced needs to be changed for everything that arises is the natural state of things and reality's perfect, unavoidable expression.

This talk/guided inquiry points to the way in which reality is utterly ungraspable conceptually. 

This talk/inquiry invites the listener to discover the ever-present presence of life itself that welcomes all its myriad expressions. 

This episode points to way in which every moment that appears, regardless of its descriptive label, is the shining forth of reality.

This talk/guided inquiry points to the way in which everything that appears, whether experientially or circumstantially, is the display of this one reality. 

In this talk/inquiry, I highlight how reality (the presence of what is) can never be lost for it is what we are and everything is.

The title says it all :-).

In this episode, I guide the listener into a perspective in which what we conventionally think of as the seemingly separate parts and pieces that make up the world are realized to be a seamless, undivided whole made of experience itself. 

This inquiry explores the supposed edge or boundary of "us," revealing that when we look and feel into existence (or being) itself, we find no borders, no boundaries, no seams and the fabric of experience. What we find is an undivided, limitless expanse of being.

This talk/inquiry explores the mystery of being as the fundamental basis of each and every moment.

This short talk introduces the podcast, how it came about and its focus.

This talk/guided exploration points to the singular nature of reality as an aliveness that appears as every circumstance and experience.