Text

Featured Item

Mindfulness & Social Action

A transcribed talk given by Michael designed into a beautiful booklet. Michael described this talk as a manifesto for how to talk about spirituality in a post-metaphysical age, used a PowerPoint presentation (the slides are included in the e-book) and said it linked together some of his clearest ideas of the time.

This is a large collection of Michael’s talks that have been transcribed by community members (including a few French and Spanish translations), as well as interviews and articles both with and by Michael. There is also a beautiful, downloadable e-book designed and produced by students.

Out of all of the texts these three are the most popular:

Books that Michael wrote, edited, or contributed to are on the Books page.

Ethics 7: Not-Stealing

This is a transcript of a talk given by Michael Stone as part of an online Precepts Course at Centre of Gravity in 2011. This course looked at the five yamas (from the first limb of Yoga) and took them

Ethics 6: Mindfulness

This is a transcript of a talk given by Michael Stone as part of an online Precepts Course at Centre of Gravity in 2011. This course looked at the five yamas (from the first limb of Yoga) and took them

Ethics 5b: Honesty

A talk given at Centre of Gravity, Toronto, March 18, 2014 Three Trainings In Korea, in the seventh century, a form of Buddhism began to flourish that was based in meditation, as opposed to a more scholarly, text-oriented approach. Because

Ethics 5: Honesty

This is a transcript of a talk given by Michael Stone (with some extra riffs from the author) as part of an online Precepts Course at Centre of Gravity in 2011. This course looked at the five yamas (from the

Ethics 4: Not Harming

This text is a collage. It’s partly the words of the author and notes from a talk given by Michael as part of a Precepts Course at Centre of Gravity in 2011. This course looked at the five yamas (from

Ethics 3: Deep Background

Excerpted from a 2010 talk by Stephen Batchelor in Australia “But I think also that when the dharma comes through our age, when we conceive of ourselves in this age, we also have to bring into play ideas about evolution.

Ethics 2: How We Get Along

You No one will read this sentence the way you’re reading it, whether you hold it in your heart, or let it drift off the tips of your fingers. The way you turn the page, skipping over certain words, allowing

Ethics 1: Introduction

From Centre of Gravity, Toronto. Written by Mike Hoolboom. Why are you here? It’s the question I want to ask everyone who sits on a cushion, or rolls out a yoga mat. The answers, when they come, are predictably fantastical.

Old Maps

Notes on a talk at Centre of Gravity by Michael Stone, May 6, 2014 First and Last I’m touched there’s many people here tonight. This will be the last time we’ll meet like this, so why not go back to

Noting in the Empire of Selfies

Notes on a talk by Michael Stone, April 8, 2014, at Centre of Gravity Jerry Jerry Durlack found out he had cancer, and while he wasn’t afraid of the cancer, or of dying, he was scared of the pain that