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Awake in the World Podcast

Awake in the World Podcast is a library of talks on a wide-range of topics, including bringing mindfulness and meditation practice into daily life; personal and community issues regarding mental healt... Read more

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Carl Jung & Meditation Practice, Part 1 of 4

Carl Jung & Meditation Practice, Part 1 of 4

Michael talks about Jung and Freud's split, dreams, work, the unconscious as a process of compensation, madness and medi... Read more

28 Nov 2016

53mins

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Anxiety & Meditation

Anxiety & Meditation

Michael explains how we can cultivate a field in which anxiety can arise and change, surrounded by spaciousness. We have... Read more

3 Oct 2016

56mins

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Making Friends with Your Mind

Making Friends with Your Mind

Meditation, how the mind functions, and contra-indications for meditation are the subject of this talk. Michael explores... Read more

4 Apr 2016

47mins

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Mindful Breathing Part 1 (Anapanasati)

Mindful Breathing Part 1 (Anapanasati)

In Gotenborg, Michael offers instruction on the Buddha’s teachings of mindfulness on the breath: learning how to let the... Read more

11 Oct 2015

1hr 5mins

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Lotus Sutra, Part 1

Lotus Sutra, Part 1

Michael teaches the basics of Mahayana Buddhism, defines what a Bodhisattva is, and explains the context of the Lotus Su... Read more

21 May 2018

58mins

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Home Base: Guided Meditation (20 min.) on Mindfulness of Thinking

Home Base: Guided Meditation (20 min.) on Mindfulness of Thinking

Vancouver, 20 min.

17 Jul 2016

20mins

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Copenhagen 3: The Fire that Feeds Our Life

Copenhagen 3: The Fire that Feeds Our Life

Michael comments on the Buddhist text The Dhammapada exploring projection on teachers, noticing rigidity, and understand... Read more

27 Mar 2015

1hr 6mins

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Transforming Pain

Transforming Pain

Michael begins teaching on the Two Darts and explains how physical and emotional pain are connected and how when we feel... Read more

19 Dec 2014

54mins

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Training Your Heart (Lojong Teachings #7): Practice the Basics

Training Your Heart (Lojong Teachings #7): Practice the Basics

A bodhisattva is someone who doesn’t get used to violence. How to train our hearts to be awake so our hearts don't build... Read more

26 Jun 2016

53mins

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Guided Corpse Pose for Safety

Guided Corpse Pose for Safety

If you feel unsafe or unstable, this is a gentle 10 minute guided meditation in corpse pose, for taking care of yourself... Read more

21 Aug 2016

21mins

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Guided Meditation

Guided Meditation

All your life, you’ve been searching, without knowing it, for exactly this moment. Michael Stone gives a guided meditati... Read more

9 Jan 2015

26mins

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Basics of Buddhism, Part 1

Basics of Buddhism, Part 1

In this dharma talk, Michael Stone aims to answer the question, "What did the Buddha teach?" by focusing on the Pāli Can... Read more

27 Jan 2019

29mins

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Standing Motionless

Standing Motionless

Michael talks about the goal of practice as being yourself. He tells the Zen story of T’ing being slapped and explores t... Read more

29 Feb 2016

52mins

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The Four Tasks

The Four Tasks

The Four Tasks: 1. Embrace Life, 2. Let go of Craving, 3. Stop & See, 4. Act. Drawing on the academic work of Richar... Read more

7 Mar 2015

30mins

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We Practice Because We Forget

We Practice Because We Forget

A discussion and talk Michael gave at the Yoga Festival Toronto with local teachers and studio owners. Toronto, Ontario.... Read more

22 Oct 2017

1hr 26mins

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Eight Stages of Practice, Part 1

Eight Stages of Practice, Part 1

Drawing on Norman Fischer's essay on monastic practice & it's maturation, Michael talks about 8 stages that we all e... Read more

12 Mar 2018

53mins

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Seeing the Background (Heart Sutra 1)

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... Read more

6 May 2019

51mins

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Hatha Yoga (1)

Hatha Yoga (1)

During a 5-day intensive Michael explores key terms from a 15th century text on yoga and talks about mental habits, yoga... Read more

18 Jun 2015

1hr 6mins

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Pranayama

Pranayama

Pranayama is a practice of settling your attention on your breath. As attention becomes balanced, so too does the nervou... Read more

4 Mar 2019

1hr 24mins

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Brahmacharya (Wise Use of Sexual Energy)

Brahmacharya (Wise Use of Sexual Energy)

Michael teaches the in-person ethics course on the wise use of energy (brahmacharya) - encountering all with respect and... Read more

22 Apr 2018

30mins

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