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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
Gotta Make A Living, Part 1
Michael offers 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.
Driving Our Questions Deeper
Michael explores two questions: 1) Who Are You? and 2) What Should You Do? Using the old Zen koan, “What’s the price of rice?” Michael talks about wrestling with questions, compassion, empathy, and how to care for people without getting
Why Can’t the Tail Get Through?
Even when we advance in spiritual practice, something is always missing. Maybe nirvana is about having troubles without falling into defense or burnout? Michael also gives a strong critique of the economic stories that drive us.
When You Have No One, No One Can Hurt You
Michael talks on loneliness, paying attention, and the importance of small ideas that can network and build a new culture.
Resistance and Change with Carina Stone
Carina joins Rose Acosta for the podcast Radically Loved Radio. Carina shares what life has been like over the last two years since Michael’s passing and the lessons she has learned in this journey. She also talks about the inspiration
Yoga Put To Work In The World
Michael gives a talk on the importance of paying attention, youth, and how deep yoga is a political practice.
Tricycle Talks — The Legacy of Michael Stone
Carina Stone discusses the stigmas around mental health in spiritual communities and how she coped with devastating loss.
Take Care of the Fabric
When things rupture, the mind can do two things. It can grasp, or release. Both are healthy nervous system responses. We can work with both. In stillness, the vitality animating us is right there, expressing itself moment to moment. Even
Loneliness and Impermanence
Michael explores the bleakness of loneliness, the puzzle of modern isolation, and how to work with being alone and feeling lonely.
Radical Politics, Buddhism, Forgiveness with Joshua Stephens
A Q&A discussion with Joshua Stephens after his talk, Gentle with Each Other, Dangerous Together. Joshua speaks about the Buddhist practices of forgiveness, patience, and non-attachment as key building-blocks in contemporary struggles.
Gentle with Each Other, Dangerous Together with Joshua Stephens
Often when we see Buddhist practice put into conversation with radical social transformation, commitments like forgiveness, patience, and non-attachment appear in one of two ways: as pillars of self-care, or resigned—almost theological—faith in inaction in the face of the intolerable.
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.