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Best of Awake in the World: Taking Care of Ourselves, Taking Care of the World
Michael Stone explores the integration of yoga and Buddhism, and how we can live a life fully engaged with the suffering of the world while also taking care of ourselves. Recorded during a day-long workshop and fundraiser for New Leaf
Best of Awake in the World: Fear, Whirlpools & Recalling the Past
Michael explores the Buddha’s experience of absorption in the forest, and how he turned to the experience of pleasure in his body to stabilize during anxiety and dread.
Best of Awake in the World: Nobody’s Life Is Just Their Own
In this episode, Zoketsu Norman Fischer and Shoken Michael Stone explore how the Dharma is taking root in Western culture and finding expression through mainstream media.
Their conversation examines the ways Buddhist teachings are shaped by language, culture, and
Best of Awake in the World: The Mind as a Process
In this Best of episode of Awake in the World Michael gives advice and practical tips for dealing with some of the struggles that come up during sitting practice, such as sleepiness, rumination, or difficult emotions like anger. The Business
Best of Awake in the World: It’s not about figuring it out
In this episode Michael continues his discussion of The Five Powers of the Mind and offers some thoughts on tradition and yoga, the interpretation of the word faith, ethics, and the strong need for self-care.
Best of Awake in the World: The Five Powers of the Mind
In this Best of Awake in the World podcast episode Michael discusses Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras with an emphasis on The Five Powers of the Mind (outlined in the first pada, line 20). He touches on the fundamental teaching of Right
Best of Awake in the World: Gotta Make A Living, Part 2
Michael talks about how our work should be energetic, industrious, diligent and skillful. We should live within our means and keep good company. When you really, really want something, you might ask: How central is this for becoming a good
Best of Awake in the World: Gotta Make A Living, Part 1
Michael unpacks teachings from the Buddhist tradition on how to make a living, and how to make ethical decisions around money in a financial world that revolves around extraction and exploitation.
Best of Awake in the World: To Stop the Estrangement Between Us
In this Best of Awake in the World episode about the Heart Sutra, Michael explores how it functions to counter what John Cage calls “the authoritarian structures” of our minds, including the tendency to create “frames” and contract around our
Best of Awake in the World: 15 minute Guided Meditation on the Breathing Body
Michael leads a 15 minute guided meditation class with the focus on grounding and bringing distractions back into the beginning of the inhale, relaxing the eyes, and feeling the sensations of breathing in the nostrils without visualizing the breath.
Best of Awake in the World: How Illness Deepens Us
Michael gives a talk on the ways illness strengthens our heart. He guides us through simple breath techniques to start, then to expand into finer, granular insight for strong concentration as our meditation practice becomes long-term. He tells the story
Best of Awake in the World: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone
Michael teaches the 2nd foundation of mindfulness and how all of our experiences comes down to pleasant and unpleasant feeling tone in the body and how important it is that we know how to feel the unpleasant. He also speaks
About the Community Library
Michael was a great archivist and the Community Library was—and continues to be—a labour of love. Everything in the Community Library is available for free. Anyone, anywhere can have instant access to material that will help them deepen their practice and contribute to a culture of compassion and collaboration.
Libraries are places where we gather alone together. They are known to be places of refuge for seekers, as well as those who are marginalized. This library is no different. It helps us nourish our beautiful, international community without walls. Now, it will also help keep Michael’s legacy alive.