Awake in the World Podcast - Michael Stone

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Training Your Heart (Lojong Teachings #4): Compassion in a Tough World Jun 05, 2016

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Michael starts out linking Aylan Kurdi’s body washing up on shore in Greece, with unemployment, austerity, and our interconnection. How do we wake up in the middle of confusion? He then talks about emptiness as a practice of not-knowing, and how to work with confusion. Madison, WI 1 hr.

Mindfulness of Feeling Tone May 30, 2016

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Michael teaches the 2nd foundation of mindfulness and how all of our experiences comes down to pleasant and unpleasant tone in the body and how important it is that we know how to feel the unpleasant. He also speaks about anger and how a heightened awareness in the middle of our original pain can free us. Meditation Facilitation Training, Vancouver, 1hr.

Mindfulness of the Breath & Taking the Backwards Step May 22, 2016

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Learning how to be present with an un-agitated heart. Meditation teaches us to be wiser with what’s difficult. Embodying our meditative practice by learning how to stop and see clearly. Meditation Facilitation Training, Vancouver, 1hr.

Guided 20min. Meditation on Receptive Breathing May 15, 2016

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Guided meditation with Michael Stone. Meditation Facilitation Training, Vancouver, 20 min.

Appreciation & Joy May 09, 2016

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Michael teaches a group of clinicians (with Brian Williams) on the Buddhist teaching of Mudita – Appreciative Joy. He speaks of the ways that joy is contagious and how we can train to notice it more often. Enso Foundation, Kelowna, 25 min.

15 Minute Guided Meditation on Appreciative Joy w/ Brian Williams May 01, 2016

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A 15-minute guided meditation on mudita (appreciative joy) with psychotherapist and dharma teacher Brian Williams. Co-taught with Michael. Enso Foundation, Kelowna.

Training Your Heart (Lojong Teachings #3): Transforming Blame, Cultivating Gratitude Apr 25, 2016

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Michael unpacks Tibetan Buddhist teachings that use a series of slogans to transform our attitude into compassion. Enso Foundation, Kelowna, 45 min.

15 Minute Guided Tonglen Meditation Apr 18, 2016

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This is instruction for a meditation practice called tonglen. Tonglen is a Tibetan term that means giving and receiving. In this practice you send out happiness to others and you take in any suffering that others feel. (Lojong Teachings #2) Enso Foundation, Kelowna, 15 min.

Training Your Heart (Lojong Teachings #1) Apr 10, 2016

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Michael teaches Tibetan practices for training in empathy: Turning what’s arising into the path, see everything as a dream, don't get stuck on peace, rest in an open mind, and after meditation just become a beginner. Enso Foundation, Kelowna, 1 hour.

Making Friends with Your Mind Apr 04, 2016

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Meditation, how the mind functions, and contra-indications for meditation are the subject of this talk. Michael explores karma and also the delay of gratification, borderline personality, and the difference between practices that uncover repression and practices that strengthen the personality in helpful ways. Enso Foundation, Kelowna, 1 hour.

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