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Come Join Us for Our Winter Day-long Intensive
Living Without Hindrance February 18th, 2012 GREEN GULCH FARM ZEN CENTER This one-day sitting will involve sitting and walking meditation, Dharma talks, Q & A and, by request, private interviews with Michael. Confirmation will be sent to you when your $80 payment...
Meditation Connected to Happiness
Thought this was an interesting piece from Shambhala SunSpace: Via David Sillito of the BBC comes this report with more to come featuring Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard (aka, the happiest man in the world) and others, exploring the connection behind mindfulness...
Dialogs With My Teacher #26
Here's another installment in a series of emails that took place between Michael and one of his senior students beginning the Summer of 2009. May you find the exchange interesting and enriching. August 22, 2010 Student: So what does it look like when one eventually...
Our Annual Year-end Appeal from the Prez
11/20/2011 Dear Sangha Member, The Chinese proverb, "may you live in interesting times," has never seemed so relevant to me. Yes, we live in interesting times, to be sure, maybe even a little scary, at times, but also filled with opportunity. Many...
Dialogs With My Teacher #25
Here's another installment in a series of emails that took place between Michael and one of his senior students beginning the Summer of 2009. May you find the exchange interesting and enriching. ____ August 13, 2010 Student: Does investigation ever cease as this...
How does one balance discipline with kindness?
Commuter Zen #73
Dialogs With My Teacher #24
Here's another installment in a series of emails that took place between Michael and one of his senior students beginning the Summer of 2009. May you find the exchange interesting and enriching. ____ August 12, 2010 Student: Do you find yourself working to unlearn...
After all of this sitting, why am I still so screwed up?
Commuter Zen #72
Is God a Particle or a Wave?
Admittedly, I get geeky over stuff like this "God particle." But for the record, I'm betting that God also shows up as a wave, depending on who's ... ahem... Witnessing. Physics has a well-deserved reputation for being horrendously complicated, but sometimes its the...
Dialogs With My Teacher #23
Here's another installment in a series of emails that took place between Michael and one of his senior students beginning the Summer of 2009. May you find the exchange interesting and enriching. ____ August 10, 2010 Student: Your words during last night's Dharma talk...