by mmcalister2017 | Feb 23, 2009
In this podcast, Michael discusses the most primal of all addictions. The addiction to our sense of being a separate self defines what Buddhists call delusion. Our tendency to depend on our self-created stories about what is true and what is not true generates our...
by mmcalister2017 | Feb 17, 2009
In this podcast, Michael discusses the practice with a group of beginners. Issues concerning the simplicity of bowing, the wonder of his baby daughters vomiting, and the reminder of how short our time together actually is....
by mmcalister2017 | Feb 11, 2009
In this podcast, recorded at San Damiano Retreat Center in Danville, California, Michael proposes that when we truly stop, we don’t leave room for the ego to manage our experience. Instead something greater takes over allowing for us to respond appropriately in...
by mmcalister2017 | Feb 4, 2009
In this podcast, Michael suggests that Awakening doesn’t do away with desire, but rather shifts our relationship to it. In this shift, we open ourselves to what is before all desire, AS what is before all desire. At this open field, we see that there is nothing...
by mmcalister2017 | Feb 2, 2009
In this podcast, Michael invites us to get out of the way of a natural impulse to awaken. Part of this involves integrating stillness into the midst of our busy lives. But enlightenment also requires, paradoxically, that we want it more than anything. In other words,...
