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 for millenia. And how does the experience of Emptiness relate to our physical senses as well as our sense of time and mind? What is beyond our sense of time and mind anyway? The great sage Nagarjuna offers some guidance along this path leading toward what Michael calls the Ninth Sense.

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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. Anything less is a contraction that limits our ability to respond to life appropriately. When we can face our own and others’ deeply singular nature, we can recognize the freedom inherent in all circumstances. So what is an appropriate response? Listen and uncover what you’ve always known about the answer.

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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 practice supports us in creating a spaciousness between the egoic boundaries of life’s circumstances and the infinite boundlessness of Spirit.

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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 being patient, and apologies for the lack of the intro music on this file.