The Whole World is Upside Down
We get a gleaming new husband or wife and then they don't turn out how we think they will! What we think is stable and reliable turns out to be unreliable. Michael talks about Birds' Nest Roshi who g...
18 Aug 201957min
You Are A Long Distance Train
Michael's powerful final talk of 2012, during silent retreat. There is a true person who is constantly coming and going from the portals of your face. Who is that true person? Recorded on December 31,...
4 Aug 201947min
Show Me Something That Isn't Medicine
Guns are horrifying, a temple in an urban world, seeing everything we encounter as medicine. Michael Stone gives the last talk at Centre of Gravity before moving to a new location. Medicine and diseas...
28 Jul 20191h 3min
Threads of Yoga, by Matthew Remski
Matthew Remski talks about his book, Threads of Yoga, a remix of Patanjali's sutras. He reads excerpts from his own book, and also speaks about Patanjali's ideas which make up one of the most popular ...
21 Jul 20191h 3min
Ashtanga Yoga Invocation: Steps and Counter-Steps
Listen to the sangha chant the Ashtanga invocation in detail. Michael explains how to look at the nature of thoughts and see how they change but also the way they have no power except for what we inve...
14 Jul 201950min
Strain in the Heart
Do you have a mind that can meet what's unpleasant? Michael Stone talks about meditation, Carl Jung, what it means to be bored, and his Bar Mitzvah. One becomes a dharma student when they see that th...
8 Jul 20191h 5min
Bring Me the Rhino, Bring Me What's Broken
Can you bring your broken self into your life? Michael shares the personal and nervous story of asking his partner to marry him in France. Recorded on Oct 23, 2012.
30 Jun 20191h
The Middle Path & The Basics of Buddhism
Michael's talk on the core teachings of the Buddha and how they relate to being a self, letting go, repeating the past, investing too much in the future, and being stuck. Recorded on September 28, 201...
23 Jun 201943min
