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How is it that we can stay centered, even if we feel someone is getting in our way? In this talk, Michael discusses the tipping point at which we become more interested in our own reactions to unconsciousness rather than the unconsciousness being perpetrated against us. When this practice becomes grounded in our experience we find that we don’t crave. Since we don’t crave, we lose the thing that fuels our suffering. Questions from the audience deal with how we can differentiate between being indifferent and at peace; different personality types and their challenges in practicing stillness; and, uncovering the subtle differences between greed and aversion.

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Meeting with our teacher and asking the questions that burn in us, helps us along the Path. In this talk, Michael discusses how recognizing that we are always WITH everything else all the time, pushes our realization into our conscious experience. Bringing this expanse into a constricted way of life, helps us see, hear, taste, and touch a more complete story. Questions from the audience deal with how egos are still divine manifestations of the Infinite; and how Infinity couldn’t care less about the conflicts of mind.

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Great teachers make great maps, at least in the spiritual realm. In this talk, Michael uses a brief set of instructions written by Ken Wilber that point directly toward our Witnessing Awareness. Uncovering this Witness, this essential opening of Spirit, is made very simple when the maps that our teachers offer us are clear. Questions from the audience deal with where the “me” is if there is only the Witness; why should we care at all if nothing is real; does Enlightenment change one’s value structure; what do we say when we “get it?”; not being ready for realization; witnessing the actor on the Stage of Mind, over and over and over again; the ego pretending that it is actually the Witness; and, how it is that the ego serves us.

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