To build patience, find a strategy. British Columbia-based psychotherapist and meditation teacher Micahel Stone uses…
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Ethics, Day 2
Michael: I wanted to talk about the first aspect of the first precept we’re exploring.…
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What’s the Music All About?
Uncle Ian sat so still listening to records, reading, drinking water. When nine-year-old Michael Stone…
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Relationship is the Key to Awakening
Michael Stone discusses recent book Family Wakes Us Up and how family life - from…
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Lotus Sutra 19: The End is Forgiveness
The Lotus Sutra violates all of our ideas about space and time. The second half…
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Lotus Sutra 18: Situational Ethics
The Lotus Sutra is forever promising that the Lotus Sutra will be taught, but it…
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Lotus Sutra 17: Buddha Never Disparaging
The experience of impermanence invites our endless imagination. The real meaning of no-self is an…
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Lotus Sutra 16: The Empty Room
Sometimes when I’m sitting in meditation, when I’m sitting here with you, I’m an empty…
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Lotus Sutra 15: Emptiness and the Necessary Obstacle
I thought we’d begin with one of the most dramatic moments in Buddhist literature. It’s…
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Lotus Sutra 14: You Were Happy
Sick Kids R Us Children have taken the poison of dukkha and have lost their…
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