Podcasts

"Everybody has everything they need for enlightenment," says Michael in tonight's talk. "You'll never find Awakening to happen any place other than right here." The minute we see and meet things as they are, we are open. When we are open there is no longer any...

"Don't throw your preferences out the window," says Michael in tonight's talk. "Study them in order to see how they lead to attachment." Michael further explains how we get in the way of Awakening by creating yet more Karma, or tangle as he often says. The way out of...

As important as a good teacher is, we also must consider how critical a meditation practice is as we walk the Path. In tonight's talk, Michael explains how we can help this process along by being careful in how we practice. As we practice with care, we get to come...

The whole of deep spiritual teaching is essentially the communication of space. In tonight's talk, Michael explains how we can participate with the world instead of avoiding it. He also talks about what any of us might consider when we begin looking for a teacher.

Living from a place of calm, alert presence that doesn't allow us to avoid anything untangles the knots of Karma. In tonight's talk, Michael explains how we can learn to change our relationship to what gets us caught in life's tangle. We get our inspiration from...

While in a monastery in Nepal, Michael learned to drink around the leaves of the unstrained tea he was served. What Michael discusses in tonight's talk, among other things, is how we can learn to relate to what floats around in our lives. He goes on to discuss the...

Stillness, quietude and openness are key to any authentic practice. Once we practice these three qualities, according to what Michael tells us in tonight's talk, we begin to realize a purification that helps us recognize what it means to let go into the Emptiness that...

Being without speaking is a beautiful way of expressing our selves totally. This happens when we give our mind an open field in which to graze. We have two major paths to meditative awareness: Big Field, and Cattle Chute. In this talk, Michael suggests that the bigger...

This podcast is a recording made by members of the Infinite Smile, expressing their gratitude for the Sangha, as a way of asking for all who have been touched by this teaching to give. Thank you in advance for your generosity.

Unlike his normal dharma talks, this podcast is a recording of a presentation he gave to the Walnut Creek, California, Integral Transformative Practice group. For the most part Michael describes the three levels of awareness, nirmanakaya, sambhogakaya, and dharmakaya....