This Extraordinary Moment: Meditative Inquiry w/ John Astin

Feb 03 2025 26 ep. 17 mins
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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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Everything is the Miracle

Feb 03 2025 13 mins  
In this episode, John points to the omnipresent nature of reality.

Paradox of Separation

Jan 24 2025 17 mins  
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.

No Things

Jan 18 2025 24 mins  
This episode explores the way in which there are no findable things owing to the dynamic, ever-dissolving nature of reality.

The Great Completion

Jan 12 2025 18 mins  
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.

Being, the Home We Never Left

Jan 07 2025 19 mins  
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 Knowing Pervading Everything

Jan 01 2025 15 mins  
This Episode explores the sense of knowing-awareness that pervades every moment.

The Body of Experience

Dec 26 2024 21 mins  
In this episode, I explore the transcendental "body," i.e., the undivided body of experiencing itself.

Unwavering Presence

Dec 16 2024 18 mins  
This episode explores "presence" (the presence of what is) as an unwavering, ever-present reality, regardless of how things are appearing.

This Aliveness

Dec 12 2024 14 mins  
In this guided inquiry, I point to "aliveness" as the common denominator underlying everything that appears.

This Magical, Mysterious Being

Dec 06 2024 16 mins  
This guided inquiry explores "being," the primal basis of each and every moment, and its ultimately mysterious, ineffable nature.