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The joke used to be that every time Michael opened his mouth what he said was archived here. We couldn’t be more grateful for that now because it is one of the best ways Michael’s teachings will live on.
The Awake in the World Podcast is the heart of the Community Library. Talks are on a wide-range of topics, including: bringing mindfulness and meditation practice into daily life; personal and community issues regarding mental health; and social change.
This podcast has been created so that anyone can have instant access to Michael’s teachings. It has been made possible due to generous donations from members of the community. In the six years that the podcast has been available, over half a million people have pressed play as a way to be more—like the name says—awake in the world.
Each podcast is between 30-60 minutes long. As always, you’re encouraged to follow along weekly as part of your practice. The podcasts were recorded at live events so you might hear coughing, airplanes, cars, sirens, laughter, and peoples’ questions—all part of the intimate experience.
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
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)
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.
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