Delve Deep Meditation Podcast

This technique has its roots in traditional Burmese insight meditation, but Shinzen Young spent years refining ways to make it easier to understand, learn and apply, even if you live a busy or hectic lifestyle.
This meditation isn't just about calming your mind or helping you relax. It's also about gaining insight into the nature of who you are and what life is, by learning to see your experience more clearly.
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What if your ordinary life isn’t the thing getting in the way of your meditation practice?
What if your ordinary life is the meditation?
In this episode, I explore a different way of thinking about meditation. You don’t have to escape your life, go to a monastery, meditate for six hours a day or wait until everything is calm and peaceful before you can make progress.
Your busy life, difficult relationships, racing thoughts, anxiety, frustration, boredom and uncomfortable emotions can all become part of the practice.
I call this “monasticising your life”: taking the skills you develop during formal meditation and bringing them into the moments that actually make up your life.
At the heart of this approach are three simple words:
Stay. See. Allow.
Stay means learning not to immediately run away from whatever is happening.
See means becoming curious about your direct experience, rather than getting completely caught up in the story about what is happening.
Allow means dropping the struggle with your experience and learning not to be pushed and pulled around by every thought, feeling and emotion that arises.
These three skills correspond to concentration, sensory clarity and equanimity, and together they provide a practical framework for bringing mindfulness into everyday life.
So instead of asking:
“How can I get rid of my anxiety?”
You can start asking:
“Can I be free while anxiety is here?”
Instead of trying to stop every thought, you can learn to see thoughts clearly without automatically believing them.
Instead of trying to eliminate uncomfortable emotions, you can learn how to experience them without becoming completely identified with them.
And instead of seeing meditation as something that ends when the timer goes off, you can start using your entire life as the practice.
Walking the dog. Eating a meal. Driving. Working. Listening to someone. Having an argument. Feeling criticised. Lying awake at night. Experiencing anger, sadness, anxiety or joy.
All of it can become an opportunity to practise.
This is where meditation can move beyond simply helping you feel calm and become a path towards deeper insight, wisdom and inner freedom.
Eventually, the investigation can go even deeper:
Who am I?
What am I?
Who is experiencing all of this?
You don't have to believe any of this. The invitation is to test it for yourself through direct experience.
Your life is the laboratory.
Your difficult experiences are the material.
And every moment gives you another opportunity to Stay. See. Allow.
I'm Jimmy Wightman, also known as That Meditation Guy, and I teach meditation and mindfulness through the Unified Mindfulness approach.
If you want to go deeper, you can find out more about my work and 1:1 transformational meditation coaching at DelveDeep.com.
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What does it actually mean to wake up?
In this podcast, Jimmy Wightman explores the deeper dimensions of awakening, nonduality and self-realisation, and what happens when we begin to question the fundamental assumption that we are a separate self. 

Drawing on traditions including Zen, Advaita Vedanta and modern nondual teachings, Jimmy explores the question “Who am I?”, the nature of the ego, conditioning, awareness and kensho — seeing your true nature.

But awakening isn’t the end of the journey. What happens after awakening? How do you integrate a profound awakening experience into ordinary human life? Why can old patterns, emotions and conditioning continue even after seeing through the ego? And how do you avoid spiritual bypassing and hiding in the “absolute."

The podcast explores the relationship between awakening and practice, drawing on ideas associated with teachers such as Angelo Dilullo, Rupert Spira and Zen, while offering a practical perspective on embodiment, sincerity, surrender and living from what has been recognised.

Ultimately, this is an exploration of freedom — not becoming someone new, but discovering what you are beneath the story of who you think you are.
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In this conversation, Jimmy Wightman sits down with Melvin McLeod to explore Melvin’s new book: A Single Breath: The Complete Path of Mindfulness.

Melvin is the Editor-in-Chief of Lion’s Roar, one of the world’s leading magazines on Buddhism, mindfulness, meditation, and contemplative wisdom. For more than three decades, he has helped bring the teachings of some of the world’s most respected spiritual teachers to a global audience. During his time at Lion’s Roar, Melvin has had the privilege of working closely with and learning from figures including Jon Kabat-Zinn, Thich Nhat Hanh, Tara Brach, Daniel Goleman, Diana Winston, Jack Kornfield, Pema Chödrön, and many others.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Jimmy and Melvin discuss the inspiration behind A Single Breath, Melvin’s own personal journey with mindfulness, and the lessons he has learned from a lifetime immersed in contemplative practice and conversation with some of the greatest meditation teachers of our time.

Together, they explore how mindfulness can become far more than a meditation technique—how it can transform the way you relate to your thoughts, emotions, relationships, work, and the challenges of everyday life. Whether you’re completely new to meditation or have been practising for years, you’ll discover practical insights into bringing mindfulness into every moment, allowing it to reshape both your inner experience and the way you engage with the world around you.

If you enjoy the conversation, don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share it with someone who might benefit from these timeless teachings.
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In this interview, Jimmy Wightman (That Meditation Guy) & Daniel Schmidt discuss: 
What is an authentic awakening (kensho/Satori)
What meditation techniques to do before & after awakening
How meditation changes after awakening
Common misconceptions along the path
What is an Enlightenment Intensive 
Common pitfalls of awakening 
Their personal journey
The spiritual journey: from surface to source

This conversation represents the deep end of spirituality so here is a quick reference glossary of some terms that are used that you might not be familiar with: 

Enlightenment  Intensive retreat - A 4-day self inquiry retreat that involves contemplating the question "who am I" while sitting opposite a partner and making eye contact. The act of sitting with a partner and contemplating is known as a dyad. 

Kensho - A Japanese Zen term meaning “seeing one’s true nature.” It refers to a direct experiential insight into the nature of self and reality — often described as a glimpse of awakening rather than full enlightenment. In many Zen traditions, kenshō is seen as an important opening or recognition that is then deepened and embodied through continued practice.

Five Skandhas (Aggregates) – The five components that make up human experience in Buddhism: form (body), feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness. They are used to explore the nature of self and impermanence.

Sādhana – A dedicated spiritual practice or discipline undertaken to cultivate growth, transformation, and realisation.
Vāsanās – Deep-seated tendencies, impressions, or habitual patterns that shape thoughts, emotions, and behaviour.

Jhāna – Deep states of meditative absorption in Buddhist practice, marked by increasing stillness, concentration, and refinement of awareness.

Savikalpa Samadhi – A profound meditative absorption in which awareness remains present with an object, experience, or sense of bliss; duality is reduced but not fully dissolved.

Turiya – In Vedanta, the “fourth state” of consciousness beyond waking, dreaming, and deep sleep — pure awareness itself.

Ox-Herding Pictures – A series of ten Zen images illustrating the practitioner’s journey from seeking truth to awakening and returning to everyday life with wisdom.

Ramana Maharshi – Indian sage known for the practice of self-inquiry (“Who am I?”) as a path to awakening.

Nisargadatta Maharaj – Advaita teacher who emphasised abiding as the sense of “I Am” and recognising one’s true nature beyond identity.
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