by mmcalister2017 | Oct 15, 2005
Eihei Dogen asks us if we can’t “find Truth where we are where do we expect to find it”. Yet this is difficult to practically apply since usually we live our lives from a position of lack. In this talk Michael suggests that it is this perpetual sense...
by mmcalister2017 | Oct 11, 2005
Negativity is merely the resistance to what is happening in this very moment. Despite this, in whatever its form negativity points us toward Awakening. Even in the face of horror and tragedy this teaching offers each of us an opportunity to Awaken. In this talk,...
by mmcalister2017 | Oct 8, 2005
The words of the Buddhist sage Nagarjuna can suggest that the only way for the Ultimate Truth to become significant to us is if we take great care to know the conventional truth. In this talk, Michael points out that Nagarjuna’s words suggest that we need to...
by mmcalister2017 | Oct 5, 2005
So what does it really mean to live in just this very moment? Rumi says that “Past and future veil God from our site”, but how do we cut through this veil as we lead contemporary lives? In this talk, Michael suggests that stilling everything that moves...
by mmcalister2017 | Sep 30, 2005
Despite the fact that the present moment is all that we ever have, we build lives around past wrongs and future wants. In this talk, Michael points toward ways that we can recognize the difference between the contracted, dense, and “heavy self” and the...
