ISmile58 – Living the Uncertainty

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...

ISmile57 – Doubt Is The Opposite of Equanimity

In this talk Michael suggests that our attachment to doubt is related to not committing ourselves to conscious living. From doubt, he says, we usually move into a realm where we become convinced of our own surety. When this conviction unfolds we diminish our...

ISmile56 – The Five Hinderances to Awakening

In this talk, Michael addresses what gets in our way as we try to awaken. From the Buddhist perspective, sensual desire, anger, sloth & torpor, restlessness & worry, and doubt, work to keep each of us in an egoically contracted state of delusion. Our freedom...

ISmile55 – Opening Our Hearts to the World

In this talk, Michael goes over the practice of opening as opposed to closing to life. Issues of boundary, dualism, and the ability of enlightened teachings to explode in each of us from the inside. From resistance, we have an opportunity to release and in this...

ISmile54 – Taking a Path Toward Wholeness

In this talk, Michael addresses what it means to live a life that incorporates Spirit. Issues of the conventional and Ultimate Truths are discussed as well as the ego’s dance on the stage of mind. Pain and fear are seen through the lens of time and we also are...

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