Directly Investigating Awareness

In this guided meditation, Michael Taft leads practitioners at the San Francisco Dharma Collective through a progressive series of shamatha exercises, followed by vipashyana on awareness itself.
Guided practice begins: 4:36
End of meditation/Beginning of talk: 1:03:34

[@johnpienta4200]

This was a cool meditation. I kept getting distracted by all the video digitizing. Don't know if that's innate to the video or on my end but it was a bit of a shame. Oh well... There's like 200 hours of other ones you have recorded and shared for free! Thanks!

[@TintomaraAriadne]

Does an earworm count as a mental object to focus on? Because that would be very easy. That I can actually hear.

[@JamesMcCartney2]

I'm curious if those who can't visualize are already at a place of "nothing"

[@MichaelTaft108]

No, it's just that they haven't practiced using the imagination in a while. It comes back.