Best of Awake in the World: Taking Care of Ourselves, Taking Care of the World
Michael Stone explores the integration of yoga and Buddhism, and how we can live a life fully engaged with the suffering of the world while also taking care of ourselves. Recorded during a day-long w...
26 Juli 0s
Best of Awake in the World: Fear, Whirlpools & Recalling the Past
Michael explores the Buddha’s experience of absorption in the forest, and how he turned to the experience of pleasure in his body to stabilize during anxiety and dread. Recorded in Green Bay, WI, on...
19 Juli 34min
Best of Awake in the World: Nobody's Life Is Just Their Own
In this episode, Zoketsu Norman Fischer and Shoken Michael Stone explore how the Dharma is taking root in Western culture and finding expression through mainstream media. Their conversation examines...
12 Juli 37min
The Mind as a Process
In this Best of episode of Awake in the World Michael gives advice and practical tips for dealing with some of the struggles that come up during sitting practice, such as sleepiness, rumination, or di...
5 Juli 1h 14min
Best of Awake in the World: It's not about figuring it out
In this episode Michael continues his discussion of The Five Powers of the Mind and offers some thoughts on tradition and yoga, the interpretation of the word faith, ethics, and the strong need for se...
28 Juni 38min
Best of Awake in the World: The Five Powers of the Mind
In this Best of Awake in the World podcast episode Michael discusses Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras with an emphasis on The Five Powers of the Mind (outlined in the first pada, line 20). He touches on the fu...
21 Juni 1h 11min
Best of Awake in the World: Gotta Make A Living, Part 2
Michael talks about how our work should be energetic, industrious, diligent and skilful. We should live within our means and keep good company. When you really, really want something, you might ask: H...
14 Juni 33min
Best of Awake in the World: Gotta Make A Living, Part 1
Michael unpacks teachings from the Buddhist tradition on how to make a living, and how to make ethical decisions around money in a financial world that revolves around extraction and exploitation. Rec...
7 Juni 1h 11min
