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Hope Without Optimism

On Silent Retreat Michael Stone explores the Zen koan “Why Can’t the Tail Pass Through”…

Pascal Auclair co-teaches with Michael and explores the work of Joanna Macy and Aung San…

Michael begins teaching on the Two Darts and explains how physical and emotional pain are…

The Lotus Sutra violates all of our ideas about space and time. The second half…

The Lotus Sutra is forever promising that the Lotus Sutra will be taught, but it…

The experience of impermanence invites our endless imagination. The real meaning of no-self is an…

Sometimes when I’m sitting in meditation, when I’m sitting here with you, I’m an empty…

Practice is the opening of a path and letting go of rigid opinions. Michael’s final…

Michael explains the basics of Jhana practices (4 stages of concentration) based on the the…

I thought we’d begin with one of the most dramatic moments in Buddhist literature. It’s…