Yippie! Sit Buddha! (Heart Sutra 6)
Michael Stone continues discussing The Heart Sutra. Our practice helps others' practice. Emptiness is everything, just as it is right now. Dukkha is restlessness — we want more or we don't want. The H...
16 Juni 20191h 5min
Radical Open-ness
A riveting talk on animals and non-violence by guest speaker, Dr. Lauren Corman, given during a 12-day intensive at Centre of Gravity. Dr. Lauren Corman taught classes in the area of Critical Animal S...
9 Juni 20191h 8min
Feel the Fear (Heart Sutra 5)
Michael Stone discusses The Heart Sutra, nirvana, worry and fear. The Buddha lists five fears. Fear is a trance state. Some of the worst things in my life never happened. During sitting meditation, fe...
2 Juni 201954min
Give Yourself a Break (Heart Sutra 4)
Self liberation. Thoughts without a thinker. The Buddha talks about the All. What is taste? Spiritual air miles. Bukowski has a bluebird in his heart. Three kinds of burnout. A talk by Michael Stone a...
27 Maj 20191h 5min
Vacuum Cleaner (Heart Sutra 3)
Michael Stone continues discussing The Heart Sutra — form and emptiness, the Buddha's troubles, making families in Toronto, bathing in Japan. What is underneath language in sitting practice is self-ac...
19 Maj 20191h 5min
Why Other People Suck (Heart Sutra 2)
Emptiness is not place or process. Mistaking emptiness is like catching a snake from the wrong end. Moving out of stories in order to feel. Five skandhas. How perception works. Two kinds of teachers. ...
12 Maj 20191h 12min
Seeing the Background (Heart Sutra 1)
Beginner's mind threatens the part of us that wants to control experience. Knowing before knowing. Hakuin: wisdom is not separate from you. It's like beads rolling on a tray: sudden, ready, uninhibite...
6 Maj 201951min
I'm Dying, What Can I Do For You? (Notes on Dying 2)
The mind makes snapshots and creates categories, our patterns contain the world keeping us small and separate, mindfulness is the new Tylenol, dying as generosity, perhaps practice means simply catchi...
29 Apr 201918min
