In this week’s episode, we explore a deceptively simple question: How do you be interconnectedness?…
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Best of Awake in the World: Make This Country Safe For Poetry!
Annual Poetry Evening. Erin Robinsong, Sarah Selecky, Michael Stone read from their favourite poems. A…
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Best of Awake in the World: Radically Simple
Michael references the Middle-Length Discourses of the Buddha, reads a koan from The Book of…
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Best of Awake in the World: Turning Things Around
Tibetan Buddhist Teachings for transforming what’s unpleasant, letting go of grasping, and the 3 treasures…
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Best of Awake in the World: Who Am I If Not This Mask?
Michael continues his month-long discussion about masks and how they shouldn't stick to your face.…
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Best of Awake in the World: I’ve Stopped: Can You?
Michael tells the story of Angulimala, a murderer who met the Buddha and changed his…
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Best of Awake in the World: Buddhas On Blades Of Grass
Michael talks on another Dongshan where he asks his students if they can go to…
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Best of Awake in the World: Self-Portraits
Michael dedicates the final evening of this retreat to Alan Ginsberg, whos self-portraits and multi-fauceted…
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Best of Awake in the World: Mindfulness of the Breath & Taking the Backwards Step
Learning how to be present with an un-agitated heart. Meditation teaches us to be wiser…
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Best of Awake in the World: Learning from the Insentient
Michael offers a talk on the teachings of the insentient, how the snow and silence…
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