Podcasts

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.

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...

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 deep...

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 compassion flows freely from...

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...

In this dharma talk, Michael McAlister points out how feelings, especially negative ones, can offer us an opening into the enlightened context. There is an articulation of how it is that we create and then expose emotional vulnerabilities, or buttons, that others will...

In this installment of Commuter Zen, Michael addresses a question about the viability of organized religion in today's world.

In this dialog, Michael McAlister delves into our simple and always immediate choice: do we stay in our familiar state of habitual contraction, or do we allow for a resonant expanse to lead us directly into the heart of an immediate Awareness. His students then take...

In this dialog, Michael addresses the temporary nature of all things. He also touches on how we can live as an expression of both wisdom and compassion once we see beyond the time bound nature of the ego. He applies this then to our Path into the impersonal nature of...

We begin this talk by discussing Hue Neng's discussion of the present moment in the Platform Sutra. This leads us into the realization of Knowing, which leads to Action that comes not from an egoic contraction, but from the recognition of the deep Singularity of...