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Relevant spirituality in the midst of 21st century living.
Michael discusses how it is that we can carry a practice that allows for us to “get there” in terms of waking up. Among the most...
This evening’s talk spans poetry, rock ‘n roll, awareness, friendship, and how we can meet our experiences during the Holiday se...
Among the most important aspects of spiritual work is our sense of community. It can inspire us and keep us focused on the needs of the mome...
So often we find ourselves working to build things that we see as beneficial: a life, a relationship, a home, or even a philosophy that migh...
As the poet, Atticus points out, we are often very complicated beings. This shows up especially in relationships. While any relationship can...
What is loss and where does the fear associated with it come from? What about anger? What is grief? How do we best cope with these general a...
It all happens here, in this very body. While it’s critical we not get lost in its desires, enlightenment doesn’t happen in any...
So often we can feel closed off from ourselves, the world, and those around us. In this talk, Michael discusses another option that leads us...
It’s all about relationships. Seriously. Everything is related, interdependently, to everything else. Enjoy the podcast of this talk .
Topics such as dealing with negativity, difficult people, and situations that challenge us are covered in this talk.
Enjoy this evening’s talk on the integration of spirituality into real life experiences, including shopping and politics.
Enjoy this evening’s talk , spanning a wide range of spiritual topics.
Enjoy this evening’s talk on how perfection shows up in the strangest ways.
This evening’s talk covers a range of topics but centers around the idea that hopelessness offers us freedom. This is covered by Pema...
What happens when we really stop? Really. Stop. This question can guide us into an openness that may fundamentally alter our lives. Imagine...
This evening’s discussion centers around Michael’s proposal that our identification with ideas, objects, feelings, our bodies, our histories...
In this evening’s talk, Michael describes the benefits of sangha as a shortcut to uncovering our pre-existing enlightened mind. He further g...
In this evenings talk, Michael describes the benefits of sangha as a shortcut to uncovering our pre-existing enlightened mind. He further g...
In this mashup of two talks, Michael uses the phrase from Dogen Zenjis, Instruction to the Cook , where he suggests that each grain of rice...
What happens when we are in the midst of disagreement? This can apply to a marriage, a friendship, a community or (perhaps especially) a leg...
Michael asks the audience in this week’s talk, what it is they think that enlightenment will bring them. He then goes forward to sugge...
While several of Michael’s students have gone through the trials and tribulations of going through the shuso ceremony, where students...
So what is it that gets in the way of Awakening? If we are already Awake, why don’t we feel it? According to Michael, wisdom tradition...
If we’re willing to follow our fear and our negativity with our whole being, according to Michael, we are offered an opportunity to aw...
In this talk, Michael walks meditators through the rough stages of spiritual ascendancy. With practice, he shows, the egoic structures as th...
Spiritual practice becomes both broader and deeper the moment we can truly forgive. This includes forgiving others as well as forgiving ours...
The Zen saying “Drinking this cup of green tea, I stop the war” offers us a chance to explore our own relationship with war. Whi...
“This deep, spiritual work,” according to Michael, “is ultimately, is about resolve.” In Stephen Batchelor’s,...
Michael points out, in this talk, how we must be willing to let go of our old habits in order to develop new ones. As Joseph Campbell says,...
Whether we like to think about it or not, death is actually at our door all of the time. Is it possible to be at peace with this knowledge?...
Whether you are a beginning meditator or a seasoned practitioner, fear can be a useful tool in this work. Practicing, for example, in the mi...
Michael works with The Book of Serenity ‘s, Case #76 as a way of describing the path of attainment. He also weaves into this descripti...
In this evening’s talk, Michael looks at the three components to truly letting go. He first begins with the aspiration for awakening....
In this video, Michael discusses the idea of love as inspired by Paul’s letter to Corinthians, Chapter 13 . He then compares the Chris...
One of the things that Zen practice leaves out, according to Michael McAlister, is a more direct approach to uncovering the Witness. This si...
When we let ourselves truly recognize what lies beyond our preferences and our attachments, we begin to get a sense of how expansive we real...
“There is only choice,” as Michael has pointed out. Even not choosing is a choice. Even in spontaneous expressions of joy or pai...
In this evening’s talk, Michael discusses the opportunity that each and every life event, no matter how great or how small, how wonder...
When we commit to directly knowing, as we say in Zen, our True Nature, we have to be willing to give everything up. Everything. Lingering at...
In this talk, Michael addresses several issues; among them, how we often lose the view we’ve been offered by insight. He’s writt...
To begin with, all of us at Infinite Smile offer each of you well wishes as we begin the holiday season. We also are so thankful for all of...
Regardless of our tradition, we can reduce our spiritual practice to its component pieces and find that Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths o...
Michael begins this talk with the following quotation from Rilke’s Duino Elegies: For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror wh...
In this talk, Michael speaks about how the One Precept of “Doing No Harm” can actualize the potential of awakening in any situat...
Actively meeting inspiration through poetry can make a huge difference as we move through the world. The same applies to uncovering the thin...
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There comes a point in our practice where we consciously let go of everything that has supported our work. It’s not that we reject or...
When we can accept reality as it is, we can no longer find ourselves to be at war with it. There is nothing to resist , in other words, when...
We often begin our spiritual journey because we’re at the end of our rope. We seek ways to avoid our discomfort. Unfortunately, when o...
Kanshi Sosan’s work, The Mind of Absolute Trust , offers us some great guidance in relation to meeting our lives fully. Michael leads...