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Training Your Heart (Lojong Teachings #6)
1.) What was your first experience of solitude, and 2.) What were your first experiences of being with others? The best thing we can leave our kids is to show how we loved.
In response to Orlando
On June 12, 2016, Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a terrorist attack inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Michael wrote the following letter to the community: Dear friends, I continue to be horrified
Training Your Heart (Lojong Teachings #5)
Michael talks about how to protect yourself, how to cultivate a caring heart, and ways of praying without necessarily needing God.
Training Your Heart (Lojong Teachings #4): Compassion in a Tough World
Michael starts out linking Aylan Kurdi’s body washing up on shore in Greece, with unemployment, austerity, and our interconnection. How do we wake up in the middle of confusion? He then talks about emptiness as a practice of not-knowing, and
Grief & The Leap Manifesto
Reading news coverage of the Leap Manifesto, you could be forgiven for thinking the authors had proposed we give up on this planet and pin our hopes on Mars. Rex Murphy called it “the most radical anti-oil agenda outside of
Mindfulness of Feeling Tone
Michael teaches the 2nd foundation of mindfulness and how all of our experiences comes down to pleasant and unpleasant tone in the body and how important it is that we know how to feel the unpleasant. He also speaks about
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)
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.