This Extraordinary Moment: Meditative Inquiry w/ John Astin

John Astin
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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.

  1. 1D AGO

    Inherent to Life

    This inquiry examines the way in which the things we're searching for as humans (openness, equanimity, ease, wakefulness, presence) are actually inherent to life itself.

    23 min

  2. FEB 9

    Ever-Present Ground

    This episode explores the ground of being, ever-present as the basis of every momentary perception.

    13 min

  3. JAN 21

    The Well-Being Implications of Realization

    This episode explores some of the well-being implications of discovering the ways in which our experience transcends everything that we think it is.

    18 min

  4. JAN 5

    Always Here Always Shining

    This episode explores the paradox that while reality is always slipping away owing to its ever-changing, alive nature, it is, at the same time, always here, always present.

    15 min

  5. 12/23/2025

    Everything, the Unfolding of This

    In this episode, I explore the way in which nothing that appears can be any more or less the one reality since everything is its unfolding.

    18 min

  6. 11/29/2025

    Wave World, Water World

    This episode explores the perspective of seeing what is common to all the experiential waves, the :"water" of being that's the very basis of everything.

    22 min

  7. 11/17/2025

    This Shining

    In this episode, I invite the listener into noticing the way in which reality, in its being present, is always shining, always here.

    13 min

  8. 10/27/2025

    Ever-Present Knowing

    This episode explores the ever-present knowing underlying all experience.

    15 min
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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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