Michael gives a talk about the Buddha’s “Fire Sermon,” and connects it to practice, being…
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A Ball Thrown into a River
In this talk Michael covers part of the Ariyapasasana Sutta (the Buddha’s own account of…
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The Whisk, the Staff, Three Heads and Eight Arms
In this talk Michael unpacks Dogen’s essay on The Time Being and argues that an…
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Anxiety & Meditation
This week we're revisiting a favourite Awake in the World podcast episode. Michael explains how…
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I Had to Stop Reading
In this talk Michael explores anatta (not-self) and emptiness as strategies versus “things.”He argues that…
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Working with Wanting
In this talk to clinicians Michael focuses on mindfulness of feeling (the second foundation) and…
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The Secular Buddha: Part Five
Martine Batchelor leads a meditation practice based on a Korean technique, using the question “What…
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The Secular Buddha: Part Four
In this talk Stephen Batchelor muses about the Buddha’s “breakthrough” and his embrace of first…
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The Secular Buddha: Part Three
Guest teacher Martine Batchelor explains how the point of contact between sense and sense object…
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Embodying the Buddha’s Teachings
In this podcast episode, Michael introduces the bodhisattva path and the paramitas. The bodhisattva ideal…
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