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Hatha Yoga (1)
During a 5-day intensive Michael explores key terms from a 15th century text on yoga and talks about mental habits, yoga postures, and the ways that the habits of mind and body are actually the path. Michael explains savasana, corpse
Uncoupling The Senses: Patanjali’s Yoga – Sutra (in French translation)
Michael explores Patanjali’s teaching on pratyahara in both meditation and daily life. We don’t really understand why things happen in our life, and yet we hold so much in our bodies. He talks about settling the self, the fact that
Your Life Is A Wide Open Field: Patanjali’s Yoga-Sutra (in French translation)
Michael translates Patanjali’s teachings on ethics, posture, steadiness, and not holding onto anything. He also speaks about greed, anger and non-duality. Recorded in Antibes, France. (translation: Cecile Payne).
SIT UP HERITAGE CBC Regina Interview
Michael Stone is interviewed by CBC Regina about SIT UP HERITAGE – an outdoor urban day-long retreat in Regina’s Heritage Community.
Family Wakes Us Up Book Launch
Michael reads from his new book and then opens up in a very personal talk about fathering, his doubts about the nuclear family, co-parenting in a split-family, his relationship with writing about family, and his friendship with Matthew Remski.
Mind Your Life
Sofia Forman gives her first dharma talk on trust, death and her process of practice. Recorded during the Silent New Year’s Retreat in Chapin Mill, New York.
Save A Ghost!
Michael speaks about modern Buddhism as a “culture of awakening,” and then talks on the Zen koan “Save a Ghost.” We are broken. That’s why meditation is an ambulance service for love. Mindfulness is a practice of mourning. The dead
Reverence
Michael Stone gives a talk at the New Year’s Silent Retreat in New York on depression, mental health, the negativity bias in the brain, and how we can have reverence for every moment of our lives. He talks about the
Taking Love To The Street With Judy Rebick
Join renowned activist Judy Rebick and Buddhist teacher Michael Stone for an evening of discussion about the intersection of spiritual practice and social action. What inspires social action? How do we stay motivated? How do we cope with burnout? And
Copenhagen 6: Still Working on Love: Don’t Trade Your Buddha Nature For Safety
When someone is enlightened, what are they enlightened about? Michael uses the dhammapada to talk about caregiving, taking care of yourself, and then he offers a list that sums up a new way of thinking about spiritual practice in this
Copenhagen 5: See Your Life As Creative Practice
Michael explains how interdependence, in Buddhist psychology, begins at the level of perception. We can have many versions of ourselves, we are a novel. Importance of the ego. If you numb negative emotions, you also numb positive emotions.
Copenhagen 4: Being Dear to Oneself
Michael tells the story of King Pasenadi and other Buddhist teachings on caring for ones-self as a means to not hurting others, instructions for meditation on impermanence, aware of awareness, and not clinging to our identity.
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.