by Infinite Smile | Apr 1, 2011
Here are two of the four talks offered at our most recent Spring Retreat at the Mount Madonna Center entitled, Living From Abundance. Please come join us some time. https://www.infinitesmile.org/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/Retreat-LivingFromAbundance.m4vPodcast...
by mmcalister2017 | Mar 30, 2011
What would it be like to be able to welcome any challenge as an invitation into awakening? Our relationship to our troubles determines the answer to this question. Are we avoiding anything? Are we at war? Harboring ill-will? Acting from desperation? Hungry for...
by mmcalister2017 | Mar 22, 2011
In this evening’s Dharma talk, Michael addresses how beauty, and our sense of it, can be impediments to awakening. “It’s not,” he says, “that there is anything wrong with beauty. In fact, beauty is everywhere, all the time. The problem is...
by mmcalister2017 | Mar 11, 2011
In this Dharma talk, Michael addresses how the ego is more comfortable with its own misery than it is uncovering the mystery of existence. This presents some problems for most of us since we rarely have either the courage or the guidance to move past this kind of...
by mmcalister2017 | Mar 9, 2011
This podcast was originally offered in February of 2006. ___ In tonight’s talk, Michael discusses how our practice can be light, medium or deep. Deep practice takes us to the ragged edge of our personal limitations and in the process show us the view of the...
