Best of Awake in the World: Being Independent in our Practice
This week we're revisiting a favourite Awake in the World podcast episode from a New Year's retreat. Michael Stone talks on silent retreat about how meditation works over the long-haul, how to practic...
19 Dec 202154min
Best of Awake in the World: Save a Ghost!
This week we're revisiting a favourite Awake in the World podcast episode from a New Year's retreat. Michael speaks about modern Buddhism as a “culture of awakening,” and then talks on the Zen koan “S...
12 Dec 202144min
Obstacles as Traction
In this talk, Michael explains that the way we choose to view the obstacles we encounter in practice can either take us off the path, or allow us to use them as signposts that help us move forward. He...
5 Dec 20211h
Life Is Outsideless
Drawing on several ancient texts, Michael describes practice as a deep investigation into the nature of how things are and how we are—which requires letting go of our tendencies to create categories, ...
26 Nov 20211h 20min
The Lotus Sutra: Where's the Love?
In this second talk on the Lotus Sutra Michael provides some background about the role the text plays following the emergence of the Mahayana and Tendai traditions, shifting the emphasis from personal...
21 Nov 202158min
Feeling is the Best Technique
This thirty-minute guided meditation focuses on the physical body, and describes how physical choices like setting up the gaze can help to monitor and settle the mind. Recorded on June 28, 2008.
14 Nov 202130min
Anger and the "Contentious" Heart
In this Awake in the World podcast Michael talks about anger, the R.A.I.N. practice, and how to be more skillful in working with afflictive emotions. Recorded on June 27, 2008.
7 Nov 202154min
Who is Breathing?
In this thirty minute guided meditation Michael offers an introduction to investigation, using the question “who is breathing.” Recorded on June 26, 2009.
31 Okt 202131min
