Commuter Zen: Squeaking and the Unmanifest

In this installment of Commuter Zen, Michael addresses the issue of his squeaking office chair in the world of form, and the notion that nothing ever happened in Emptiness. https://www.infinitesmile.org/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/CommuterZen050805.mp3Podcast...

ISmile53 – No Mistakes, Just Teaching

In this talk, Michael suggests that all circumstances pave the Path to Awakening. Circumstances remind us of our preferences, which remind us of our attachments, which remind us of our delusion, which reminds us to Awaken. Only in the realm of this delusion, can the...

ISmile52 – The Readers Digest Version of Enlightenment

In this talk, Michael addresses issues pertaining to realizing both wisdom and compassion along the Path to Awakening. Even in pain, we are offered a chance at experiencing the volcanic expression of love that is at the core of the Universe’s expression of the...

ISmile51 – From Affinity to Infinity and Back

In this talk, Michael relates Gandhi’s quote, “True beauty is my aim” to Awakening. A mind that doesn’t identify with thought, and a body that isn’t addicted to the senses, meet in the vast spaciousness of an open heart. It is here that...

ISmile50 – Beyond Negativity

In this talk Michael McAlister addresses some of the basic problems facing us as we begin a stillness practice. Questions relating to being open to people that are closed to us, as well as how enlightenment for ourselves means enlightenment for the Universe are also...

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