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Mindfulness of the Breath & Taking the Backwards Step
Learning how to be present with an un-agitated heart. Meditation teaches us to be wiser with what’s difficult. Embodying our meditative practice by learning how to stop and see clearly.
Guided 20min. Meditation on Receptive Breathing
Guided meditation with Michael Stone. Meditation Facilitation Training, Recorded in Vancouver.
Appreciation & Joy
Michael teaches a group of clinicians (with Brian Williams) on the Buddhist teaching of Mudita – Appreciative Joy. He speaks of the ways that joy is contagious and how we can train to notice it more often.
15 Minute Guided Meditation on Appreciative Joy w/ Brian Williams
A 15-minute guided meditation on mudita (appreciative joy) with psychotherapist and dharma teacher Brian Williams. Co-taught with Michael.
Training Your Heart (Lojong Teachings #3): Transforming Blame, Cultivating Gratitude
Michael unpacks Tibetan Buddhist teachings that use a series of slogans to transform our attitude into compassion.
15 Minute Guided Tonglen Meditation
This is instruction for a meditation practice called tonglen. Tonglen is a Tibetan term that means giving and receiving. In this practice you send out happiness to others and you take in any suffering that others feel. (Lojong Teachings #2)
Training Your Heart (Lojong Teachings #1)
Michael teaches Tibetan practices for training in empathy: Turning what’s arising into the path, see everything as a dream, don’t get stuck on peace, rest in an open mind, and after meditation just become a beginner.
Making Friends with Your Mind
Meditation, how the mind functions, and contra-indications for meditation are the subject of this talk. Michael explores karma and also the delay of gratification, borderline personality, and the difference between practices that uncover repression and practices that strengthen the personality
Digital Era Lecture Q & A
Discussion about technology in culture and its effect on us personally and socially. Recorded at Semperviva in Vancouver, BC.
Stabilizing Our Cluttered Minds In A Digital Age
Michael explores the way “interruption technologies” like phones and messaging etiquette, create hyper-arousal in the body and mind and de-stabilize emotions. He connects this research with practical things we can do at home to stabilize our minds and re-establish depth
How To Meditate, Forgive, End Blame, And Stop Wounding Your Own Heart
How To Meditate, Forgive, End Blame, And Stop Wounding Your Own Heart by Michael Stone Teachings.
Standing Motionless
Michael talks about the goal of practice as being yourself. He tells the Zen story of T’ing being slapped and explores trusting yourself, not telling black and white stories about those we love and hate, and how meditation is the
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.