Being Independent in our Practice
**BONUS** Michael Stone talks on silent retreat about how meditation works over the long-haul, how to practice with a teacher that encourages independence, and how to live without gain. This is the se...
21 Joulu 201653min
Speaking Up, Resilience, Non-Grasping
Michael Stone talks during the New Year's Silent Meditation Retreat about the depth of meditation, an old koan about bowing, Zen master Dogen, and Edward Snowden. This powerful talk wraps up 2013. Thi...
21 Joulu 201651min
Letting Go of Expectations & Having the Last Word
Michael begins teaching concentration technique by aligning attention and the body. Recognizing expectations we have for ourselves and others and how grasping creates suffering. Not allowing others to...
19 Joulu 201636min
Blending Traditions: Yoga & Buddhism
A community talk at Tassajara Monastery with Michael Stone & Zen teacher Paul Haller. They each share some of their biography and field questions about practice. Paul shares from his 40 years of Zen p...
11 Joulu 201657min
The Deep Request: 30 Minute Guided Meditation w/ Paul Haller
Followed by a talk on how meditation unfolds, and how to use the space of meditation to investigate experience. Recorded on retreat co-taught with Michael Stone, Tassajara Zen Mountain Monastery, Cali...
4 Joulu 20161h 6min
Carl Jung & Meditation Practice, Part 4 of 4
Michael talks about feeling the breath; the limits of Jung's ideas of images; how to go beyond internal dialogue and how Jung falls apart for 2 years and how he deals with it. Recorded on September 25...
28 Marras 20161h 2min
Carl Jung & Meditation Practice, Part 3 of 4
Michael explores happiness; how the Buddha saw a "self" as creative and not destined by fate or individuation. Become who you are. As we drop into practice, happiness is a by-product, not a goal. Reco...
28 Marras 20161h 9min
Carl Jung & Meditation Practice, Part 2 of 4
Michael explores what it's like to feel like two people; how Jung felt alone as a kid; the place of religious images in life as a child; how do we relate to the vastness of the unconscious and memory;...
28 Marras 20161h 3min
