Podcasts

The minute we drop our defenses, our awareness begins to fill a deeper context, thus allowing us to see through the veil of our delusion. In this talk, Michael suggests that we take Sri Ramana Maharshi's advice to heart and follow our "I-sense" to its core. Doing this...

How do we bring Awakening into our day-to-day walk through the world? In this talk, Michael offers what mystics have been talking about for centuries: let wisdom inspire compassion, while at the same time let compassion inspire wisdom. When these two components to...

What is the Source of all things? In this talk, Michael pushes the limits of language by discussing the nature of Emptiness as it relates to the human experience. How is it that the experience of Emptiness is paradoxically so full, thus inspiring mystical teachings...

What does it mean to embody a continually appropriate response to all that arises in our awareness? In this talk, Michael discusses how everything supports Awakening to the Absolute for ourselves and others as long as we meet our circumstances with deep openness....

In this talk Michael discusses how partial commitment to the Path can be very painful. This is in part due to the fact that ego begins to feel raw and exposed once light is cast on its activity. Instead of recoiling from this discomfort, we learn that our stillness...

In this talk Michael discusses how there is ultimately only uncertainty. There isn't any thing, nor is there any one who we can count on. Relaxing in this uncertainty, and letting this relaxed "not knowing" permeate our lives is the practice. By the way, thank you for...

In this talk Michael suggests that our attachment to doubt is related to not committing ourselves to conscious living. From doubt, he says, we usually move into a realm where we become convinced of our own surety. When this conviction unfolds we diminish our...

In this talk, Michael addresses what gets in our way as we try to awaken. From the Buddhist perspective, sensual desire, anger, sloth & torpor, restlessness & worry, and doubt, work to keep each of us in an egoically contracted state of delusion. Our freedom...

In this talk, Michael goes over the practice of opening as opposed to closing to life. Issues of boundary, dualism, and the ability of enlightened teachings to explode in each of us from the inside. From resistance, we have an opportunity to release and in this...

In this talk, Michael addresses what it means to live a life that incorporates Spirit. Issues of the conventional and Ultimate Truths are discussed as well as the ego's dance on the stage of mind. Pain and fear are seen through the lens of time and we also are pointed...