Podcasts

There have been several requests for some guided meditation. Here we have it. Just sit back and relax as Michael talks us from Eterntity to here in about 20 minutes.

Having the courage to authentically engage in a stillness practice means that we are ready to move past our resistance patterns. This is when we can consciously "pop the balloon" that acts as the boundary of the separate self. In this talk, Michael suggests that only...

Mind, or what we might also call ego, can only survive in two places: either in the past or in the future. But what about the space between our thoughts? This openness is what in Zen we call "No Mind". In this talk, Michael suggests that the practice of letting go...

Letting go of everything, and then acting from this place of radical surrender is the manifestation of Awakening. But how do we do this in practical terms? In this talk, Michael offers us a some pointers on how to practice both surrender and forgiveness in ways that...

If it's all only Spirit, why should we meditate? Couldn't it be that meditation is designed to fail in getting us closer to what's already totally present? In this talk, Michael discusses these questions and suggests how practice unfolds along three stages. Beginning...

In Buddhist teaching, we refer to the Fourth Noble Truth as the Eightfold Path. Following this Path shows us a map that leads directly to Awakening. But the Path often seems to be covered, metaphorically at least, with banana peels that cause us to slip and fall as we...

Our normal state is intertwined with addiction to ego. Yet addiction to non-addiction is not the goal. In this talk, Michael deals with the middle way of practice in which we begin to uncover our ability to unfold as Spirit in Action for all beings AS all beings. This...

Meditation is not enough to support an authentic practice. Nor is the reading of scripture. Nor is just listening to Dharma talks. There must be a fire that fuels our meeting of Spirit. In this talk, Michael deals with accessing that very fire. Shunryu Suzuki,...

What does it mean to meet your life? How is it that we can really show up in the face of everything? In this talk, Michael discusses how the practice of stillness allows for us to transcend our reactivity to life's circumstances in favor of fearlessly opening to all...

Authentic spiritual practice takes enormous courage since ultimately we are forced to face the temporary nature of all things... including all of our relationships. In this talk, Michael discusses how the radical acceptance of things as they are leads us into a...