ISmile286 – Radical Honesty and the Great Matter

In this video-taped Dharma talk, Michael McAlister explains how we can lie lives rooted in deep, or radical, honesty. Once we start to do this we can find that there is no longer a compulsion to either establish or cling to an identity. Once we lose our grip on our...

ISmile285 – In the Middle of Pain

In this Dharma talk, Michael discusses how we can begin to look at pain as an invitation to deepen our perspectives on how we live. This isn’t always easy, but it’s at the core of everyone’s Dharma practice. When we know, in other words, that some...

ISmile284 – The Fierce Urgency of Now

In this Dharma talk, Michael McAlister starts by pointing out how the PBS NewsHour’s Mark Shields helped contextualize the killings in Tuscon, Arizona. In doing so, we find that there may be some significant reminders of how tribal-centrism can be extended...

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