In my writing here, I try to focus on the different ways meditation and meditative insight can help with everyday life, as well as some of the different ways meditation itself can be creativity shaped and expressed.
And yet, meditation and spiritual practices go much further than the everyday. Where exactly they go is fascinating and paradoxical and points us to a broader understanding both of the limits of consciousness, and the limits of human suffering.
That’s why I’m thrilled to introduce a new regular column for Home Base called The Cosmic Corner, a.k.a., the cool spiritual shit. For our first post, I am surrendering the reins to my good friend
, artist and author of the Substack. Tasha will be my cohost in this column, just as she is my cohost over at .Tasha is a Lama authorized in the Tibetan Dzogchen and Mahamudra traditions. She lives the cosmic (and the earthy practical), and she lives it well. What I often speak about obliquely at Home Base, she engages with directly and enthusiastically, with great humility and generosity.
One of her primary styles of practice is called “direct seeing.” Here’s a brief chat we had about that:
JEFF
Tasha, how lovely to explore the strange human experience of reality with you here. Can you tell us a bit about the guided meditation you recorded for us this week?
TASHA
Well, Jeff, as you know, the best way to directly recognize the nature of awareness is through an advanced method where you sit in stillness staring at a yak, until the yak achieves enlightenment and licks you across the face, thereby transmitting the secrets of the universe to you. This is considered the fast path.
But since not everyone has access to a yak, we’ll start with something more accessible. I’m calling this meditation “The Hidden Half of Experience.” It’s a practice in perceptual shift.
We’re all used to paying attention to the stuff of experience—the things happening to us, in us, around us... But what about the other half - the space of experience itself? We pay almost no attention to where all of that is appearing.
In this meditation, we practice turning attention from the contents of awareness, to the space of it, and then we merge into it like some kind of spacious mind meld. Hopefully, stuff gets weird.
JEFF
This makes my heart sing. Thank you I love you.
Jeff and Tasha
The Mind Bod Adventure … SQUAD!
June 8-13, 2025
Five day In-Person Retreat, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, New York
Rewild your meditation practice!
This is the next iteration of my teaching. Omega asked
and I to offer something together. We loved the idea. We don’t know what that will look like yet, which makes it extra fun. Expect irreverent reverence. Expect creative expression and the creativity of practice. Expect nondual pointing-out instructions. In this FIVE DAY retreat, we take the spirit of and remake it into a multi-day community meditation hang out and dance party, with jokes.THIS WEEK ON THE MIND BOD ADVENTURE POD
In this episode, we remix therapy and healing with Angela Ai, a syncretic teacher practitioner of Core Energetics, Radical Aliveness, and Human Design. What the heck are these modalities? Good question! In a nutshell: they’re different ways to get insight into - and intuitive contact with - some of the many ways we encounter the world. This one’s for the taxonomy nerds!
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