Awake in the World Podcast - Michael Stone

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Best of Awake in the World: Love - Sometimes We Can Really Show Up Dec 26, 2021

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This week we're revisiting a favourite Awake in the World podcast episode. An hour before New Year’s Michael gives a quiet talk on the Heart Sutra and Forgiveness. “When I hold someone’s hand as they are dying I chant the Heart Sutra. Or when I watch my son sleeping.” A tender and quiet talk on silent retreat. Recorded on Dec 31, 2011.

Best of Awake in the World: Being Independent in our Practice Dec 19, 2021

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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 practice with a teacher that encourages independence, and how to live without gain. This is the second last talk of the year and the group was in deep silent practice, and it was snowing. Recorded at Sugar Ridge Retreat Centre in Midland, Ontario on Dec 30, 2013.

Best of Awake in the World: Save a Ghost! Dec 12, 2021

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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 “Save a Ghost.” We are broken. That’s why meditation is an ambulance service for love. Mindfulness is a practice of mourning. The dead live on in us as ghosts and as we mourn we make them into culture. Recorded during the Silent New Year’s Retreat in Chapin Mill, New York.

Obstacles as Traction Dec 05, 2021

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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 argues that social action, spiritual practice and psychological awareness are all required if we wish to wake up. Recorded on March 7, 2006.

Life Is Outsideless Nov 26, 2021

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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, cling to preferences, and grasp for the unattainable. Recorded March 5, 2008.

The Lotus Sutra: Where's the Love? Nov 21, 2021

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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 liberation to compassion and interdependence. He considers the mythical, fantastical style of the text and how it challenges orthodoxy in order to promote a path of service. Recorded on March 3, 2011.

Feeling is the Best Technique Nov 14, 2021

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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.

Anger and the "Contentious" Heart Nov 07, 2021

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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.

Who is Breathing? Oct 31, 2021

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In this thirty minute guided meditation Michael offers an introduction to investigation, using the question “who is breathing.” Recorded on June 26, 2009.

Every Breath Is Brand New Oct 24, 2021

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A forty-minute guided meditation on the First Foundation of Mindfulness, Mindfulness of Breathing. Recorded on June 24, 2009.

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