A 20-minute guided meditation on mindfulness of the breathing body in the abdomen to settle…
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15 min. Guided Meditation on the Breathing Body
A 15-minute guided meditation on the breathing body. Bringing distractions back into the beginning of…
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Not Picking & Choosing
Michael uses an old Zen tale, a troubled story about him falling in love with…
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Letting Go of Expectations & Having the Last Word
Michael begins teaching concentration technique by aligning attention and the body. Recognizing expectations we have…
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Mindful Breathing Part 2 (Anapanasati)
Michael explains the first level of concentration that emerges when the mind settles (first jhana).…
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Michael Stone gives his final talk at Centre of Gravity on the famous Zen Koan…
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Time is Passing 1: Breathing, Shamatha, Vipassana
This is talk 1 of 8 by Michael on Dogen’s text Time is Passing), written…
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Old Maps
Notes on a talk at Centre of Gravity by Michael Stone, May 6, 2014 First…
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Notes on Dying 1: What Stops You?
Notes on a talk by Michael Stone at Centre of Gravity, Toronto, June 19, 2012.…
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Pranayama 2: Restraint, Mercy, Central Axis
Notes from a four-part Pranayama workshop held in February 2012 at the Centre of Gravity.…
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