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I have been thinking of the difference between water and the waves on it. Rising, water's still water, falling back, it is water, will you give me a hint how to tell them apart? Because someone has made up the word "wave," do I have to distinguish it from water? There...
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Commuter Zen...
read moreDialogs With My Teacher #11
Here's another installment in a series of emails that took place between Michael and one of his senior students beginning in August of 2009. May you find the exchange interesting and enriching. ____ June 26, 2010 Student: While meditating today, I realized that in...
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Here's another installment in a series of emails that took place between Michael and one of his senior students beginning in August of 2009. May you find the exchange interesting and enriching. ____ June 25, 2010 Student: Recently, you were talking about preventing...
read moreHow might we define soul?
Commuter Zen...
read moreTake a Break, for the benefit of all beings…
Fall 2011 Weekend Retreat STABILITY IN THE FACE OF CHANGE September 23 25, 2011 MOUNT MADONNA CENTER Change is all there is, and yet so often we can find ourselves resisting it. What if we were able to embrace change, thereby cultivating an internal peace that...
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When grapes turnto wine, the long for our ability to change. When stars wheel around the North Pole,they are longing for our growing consciousness. Wine got drunk with us,not the other way. The body developed out of us, not we from it. We are bees, and our body is a...
read moreHow might we speak of our spiritual work so that others can hear?
Commuter Zen...
read moreDialogs With My Teacher #9
Here's another installment in a series of emails that took place between Michael and one of his senior students beginning in August of 2009. May you find the exchange interesting and enriching. ____ June 22, 2010 Student: What was there before any event, and what is...
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I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim am I! I am this body, a play Of five elements; a drama Of the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow. ~...
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