Awake in the World Podcast
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Awake in the World Podcast
Awake in the World Podcast is a library of talks on a wide-range of topics, including bringing mindfulness and meditation practice into daily life; personal and community issues regarding mental health; and social change. The podcasts were recorded at live events so you might hear coughing, airplane...
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Best of Awake in the World: Who Am I If Not This Mask?
Michael continues his month-long discussion about masks and how they shouldn't stick to your face. He gives the sangha some insight into the intrinsic...
Best of Awake in the World: I've Stopped: Can You?
Michael tells the story of Angulimala, a murderer who met the Buddha and changed his ways though was still stoned to death. This teaching illustrates...
Best of Awake in the World: Buddhas On Blades Of Grass
Michael talks on another Dongshan where he asks his students if they can go to a place where there are no weeds. Michael’s commentary is that weeds ar...
Guided Meditation: Give way to something else
Michael Begins with a reminder not to push through practice, but to relax in the present moment. Learn to let go of the expectations of what it means...
Best of Awake in the World: Self-Portraits
Michael dedicates the final evening of this retreat to Alan Ginsberg, whos self-portraits and multi-fauceted expressions have inspired him. He touches...
Best of Awake in the World: Mindfulness of the Breath & Taking the Backwards Step
Learning how to be present with an un-agitated heart. Meditation teaches us to be wiser with what’s difficult. Embodying our meditative practice by le...
Best of Awake in the World: Learning from the Insentient
Michael offers a talk on the teachings of the insentient, how the snow and silence can hold hidden lessons. Can you give attention to the way the inse...
Best of Awake in the World: 20 min Guided Meditation for Unstable Emotions
Take a moment to notice where in your body this emotional state or mood is most present. What physical sensations let you know that you're experiencin...
Asking the Master
In this Best of Awake in the World epside Michael introduces Case 12 of the Mumonkon, "The Master". He ties waking up with social action and the teach...
Best of Awake in the World: Fear, Rebirth, and the 3 Insights
In this Best of episode Michael describes how the Buddha met fear, mapping out how concentration practice unfolds, then offers a mind-opening view of...
Best of Awake in the World: Lack, Impermanence and Not Self
During a workshop in France, Michael teaches on the 3 characteristics — a teaching found in both the Yoga and Buddhist traditions. This talk is in bot...
Best of Awake in the World: Blending Traditions: Yoga & Buddhism
A community talk at Tassajara Monastery with Michael Stone & Zen teacher Paul Haller. They each share some of their biography and field Q&A about prac...
Best of Awake in the World: 20 min. Guided Meditation: Feeling the Sensations of the Body
Nothing needs to be refused. Let the breath travel the body without picking up speed. The clouds of thought haul across the sky. Let them come and go....
Best of Awake in the World: Mindfulness & Social Action: Towards a Secular Spirituality
In this thoughtful and powerful talk, Michael unpacks the transformative act of sharing the untold stories—the ones that challenge the status quo. He...
Best of Awake in the World: Betrayal, Awakening, and Living in a Burning House
Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara talks about the Lotus Sutra and the parable of the burning house. Even in the world of the dharma we can get caught up with pla...
Best of Awake in the World: Introduction to Meditation: Sometimes Awake, Sometimes Asleep
Michael teaches a one-day introduction to meditation workshop on how you can turn anything into a practice, even a bike lock. Sometimes awake, sometim...
Best of Awake in the World: Aim & Allow: How Mindfulness of Breathing Helps Us Manage Expectations
In this Best of episode, Michael explains how the meditation we need is the “initial application of attention,” then “sustained application” so that w...
Best of Awake in the World: Mindfulness, Memory, and Fantasy
Looking at early Pali texts, Michael tries to recover the original and fuller meaning of mindfulness from its current usage in the west. "Mindfulness...
Best of Awake in the World: Raw Fear is a Dot in Space
In this Best of episode, Michael reflects on how more people seem to be afraid of uncertainty than they are of physical pain. If we do something about...
Best of Awake in the World: Love, Death, And Oak Trees In The Garden
In this episode of Best of Awake in the World, While on silent retreat, Michael Stone reflects on the Zen koan "Oak Tree in the Garden," exploring med...
Best of Awake in the World : Making Friends with Your Mind
In this insightful Best of Awake in the World episode, Michael delves into how the mind works, the benefits—and limitations—of meditation, and why it’...
Best of Awake in the World: How We Rescue Each Other
Michael begins with talking about finding simplicity in meditation practice; stepping back from the details of thinking to notice the subjective exper...
Best of Awake in the World: Strain in the Heart
Do you have a mind that can meet what’s unpleasant?
In this deeply reflective talk from October 30, 2012, Michael Stone explores the inner tensi...
Best of Awake in the World : Pranayama
In this Best of Awake in the World episode, Michael Stone and Grant Hutchinson teach the ways yogic breathing returns the nervous system to "factory s...
Best of Awake in the World : Relax Your Mind
Michael Stone talks on the importance of relaxing your mind and how patience and relaxation give rise to enthusiasm. The talk is based on chapter 8 of...
Best of Awake in the World: Just this is it
In this Best of Awake in the World episode, we join Michael and Sanga on retreat at the Christine Center in Wisconsin. Michael shares a Zen story in w...
Best of Awake in the World : Transforming Pain
In this Best of Awake in the World episode Michael begins teaching on the Two Darts and explains how physical and emotional pain are connected and how...
Best of Awake in the World: Heaven Realms, Hell Realms, And Protection
Today’s Best of episode follows along with a talk from Michael recorded on the first day of a retreat back in February 2016 at Chapin Mill, New York....
Best of Awake in the World: We Practice Because We Forget
Michael also reflects on the profound reality of human suffering, pointing out how the existence of prisons and the suffering within them calls into q...
Best of Awake in the World: Home Base: Guided Meditation (20 min.) on Mindfulness of Thinking
In this episode of Best of Awake in the World, Michael leads a 20-minute guided meditation focusing on mindfulness of thinking. This practice invites...
Best of Awake in the World: Mindfulness of Mental States
In this Best of Awake in the World, Michael explores how mind states are not inherently fixed; you can hold mind states lightly; moods are phenomena,...
Best of Awake in the World: Allowing For Experience: Practicing Non-Separation
In this episode of Best of Awake in the World, Michael lectures on the end of 2nd chapter of the Yoga-Sutra and then gets into a very precise mapping...
Best of Awake in the World: Not Identifying with Your Moods
In this Best of episode Michael explores how to become interested in how the mind functions rather than being caught in the content of our stories. Me...
Best of Awake in the World: Labeling And Noting Thoughts
In this Best of episode Michael explores language and emotions in children and how this gets internalized in adults. How to meditate when we are think...
Best of Awake in the World: When You Have No One, No One Can Hurt You
In this Best of episode Michael discusses the topics of loneliness, the power of focused attention, and the significance of small ideas that can conne...
Best of Awake in the World: Why Can't the Tail Get Through?
In this Best of episode Michael examines how even despite our progress in spiritual practice, there's often a sense that something is lacking. Perhaps...
Best of Awake in the World: Speaking Up, Resilience, Non-Grasping
A talk by Michael on how even the best meditators have old wounds that need attention. He talks about how we need support for working with old pattern...
Best of Awake in the World: Your Inner Child Never Grows Up!
A talk by Michael on how even the best meditators have old wounds that need attention. He talks about how we need support for working with old pattern...
Best of Awake in the World: How To Meditate, Forgive, End Blame, And Stop Wounding Your Own Heart
In this special "Best of Awake in the World" episode, we explore why we struggle so much when all we really need to do is pause and truly see what's r...
Best of Awake in the World: When Thorns Grow in Our Practice
A talk and group exercise for working with thorns when they begin to grow on the branches of our practice and in our lives. Recorded Nov. 2, 2010.