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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 of its possibilities. Rather than life happening “to us”, it happens “within our Awareness”. This rearranges our usual relationship with our thoughts, feelings, our past, and future.

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In this installment of Commuter Zen, Michael answers questions from listeners dealing with incorporating practice with our experiences of pain, getting relevant training, and the horrors of terrorism.

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In this installment of Commuter Zen, Michael and one of his newer students, Claire, speak together about ego, humor, Emptiness, and other topics relating to those beginning a stillness practice.

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In this installment of Commuter Zen, Michael and his brother Mitch share some time together talking about music and how it relates to spirituality, discipline as well as humor in our practice, and how traditional religious institutions can get in the way of direct realization. Currently, Mitch’s podcast Notes From the Underground is ranked in iTunes Top 100.

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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 spaciousness beyond the contraction of fear. This allows us to make friends with change and dance with reckless abandon. Questions relate to grief, the inherent dislike of change, and, of course, being afraid to dance with reckless abandon.

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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 allows us to begin sharing a fearless humility that ultimately helps us cut through delusion. Questions relate to creativity, non-attachment to outcome, bowing to our thoughts, and the discomfort that arises as our practice deepens.

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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 enlightenment become mutually supportive, we begin to walk through the world with Awakened steps.