In this talk Michael explores anatta (not-self) and emptiness as strategies versus “things.”He argues that…
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Do People These Days Need Enlightenment?
Michael considers the final lines of the first pada of the Yoga Sutra through the…
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What Can You Do About the World?
In this talk Michael looks at the five kleshas and their corresponding cultural samskaras through…
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Enter Here
This meandering talk starts with a story about “Entering the Way” and flows around asana…
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Best of Awake in the World: Emptiness, Self, Depression & Narcissism
Michael gives a talk on the ways mindfulness meditation can help with the spectrum of…
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Who Are You?
In this talk (on the first lines of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra) Michael explores the mistakes…
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In that Lump of Flesh and Bones
In this talk Michael argues that yoga and mindfulness are best practiced via the body…
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Best of Awake in the World: Ahimsa (Non-harming)
This week we're revisiting a favourite Awake in the World podcast episode. Michael interviews Pat…
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The Walls of the Mind
Michael explores the line in the Heart Sutra: “With no hindrance in the mind. No…
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To Stop the Estrangement Between Us
In this talk about the Heart Sutra Michael explains how it functions to counter what…
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