Michael gives a talk on the ways mindfulness meditation can help with the spectrum of…
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It’s Not About Figuring It Out
In this Awake in the World podcast episode Michael continues his discussion of The Five…
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Patanjali’s an Optimist
In this Awake in the World podcast episode, Michael unpacks part of the second pada…
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Eight Stages of Practice, Part 2
Drawing on Norman Fischer's essay Michael explores how the honeymoon period of practice comes to…
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Your Inner Child Never Grows Up!
A talk by Michael on how even the best meditators have old wounds that need…
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Who Am I If Not This Mask?
Michael continues his month-long discussion about masks and how they shouldn't stick to your face.…
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Carl Jung & Meditation Practice, Part 3 of 4
Michael explores happiness; how the Buddha saw a "self" as creative and not destined by…
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Carl Jung & Meditation Practice, Part 2 of 4
Michael explores what it's like to feel like two people; how Jung felt alone as…
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Carl Jung & Meditation Practice, Part 1 of 4
Michael talks about Jung and Freud's split, dreams, work, the unconscious as a process of…
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Emotional Granularity
A letter written by Michael after co-teaching with Paul Haller at the Tassajara Mountain Center:…
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