Podcasts | Infinite Smile

Podcasts | Infinite Smile episodes:

• 09.21.2016

  ISmile352 – Without the Slightest Error

  Enjoy this evening’s talk on how perfection shows up in the strangest ways.

  
• 09.20.2016

  ISmile 351 – When Hopelessness Rules

  This evening’s talk covers a range of topics but centers around the idea that hopelessness offers us freedom. This is covered by Pema Chodron in her book, When Things Fall Apart.

  
• 02.19.2014

  Stopping the Chase

  What happens when we really stop? Really. Stop. This question can guide us into an openness that may fundamentally alter our lives. Imagine life without the sniff & scurry, the shake, rattle & roll. Imagine a life where we get...

  
• 11.23.2012

  ISmile338 – If It’s Generous It’s Love

  Michael asks the audience in this week’s talk, what it is they think that enlightenment will bring them. He then goes forward to suggest that enlightenment will bring nothing to our experience that we don’t already have. But its realization...

  
• 04.01.2011

  Retreat Video – Living From Abundance

  Here are two of the four talks offered at our most recent Spring Retreat at the Mount Madonna Center entitled, Living From Abundance. Please come join us some time.

  
• 06.10.2006

  CommuterZen19 – Confusing Experience With Realization

  Either click HERE to watch Michael’s talk in a separate window, or click the video below. In order to get these podcasts updated regularly, download the new iTunes software and subscribe to this podcast from the Religion & Spirituality list....

  
• 03.24.2006

  CommuterZen18 – Right and Wrong Informed by the Infinite

  Either click HERE to watch Michael’s talk in a new window, or click on the video screen below. To subscribe to this podcast, paste this address directly into a podcast aggregator. This will automatically download new discussions on a regular...

  
• 02.23.2006

  CommuterZen17 – Traditional Traps

  Either click HERE to watch Michael’s talk in a new window, or click on the video screen below. To subscribe to this podcast, paste this address directly into a podcast aggregator. This will automatically download new discussions on a regular...

  
• 02.21.2006

  CommuterZen16 – Attachment to Faith

  Either click HERE to watch Michael’s talk in a new window, or click on the video screen below. Download the new iTunes software and subscribe to this podcast from the Religion & Spirituality list. ____ In this video podcast Michael...

  
• 02.20.2006

  CommuterZen15 – Witnessing Skepticism

  Either click HERE to watch Michael’s talk in a new window, or click on the video screen below. Download the new iTunes software and subscribe to this podcast from the Religion & Spirituality list. ____ In this video response Michael...

  
• 11.14.2005

  Commuter Zen: Passion, the Feeling of Surrender, Intoxication, and Frustration

  Do authentic spiritual paths leave us without passion? And what does surrender feel like anyway? In this talk Michael suggests practices that support a deeper way of living where life’s joys are celebrated and cultivated in ways that wake us...

  
• 05.10.2005

  Commuter Zen: Squeaking and the Unmanifest

  In this installment of Commuter Zen, Michael addresses the issue of his squeaking office chair in the world of form, and the notion that nothing ever happened in Emptiness.

  
• 04.19.2005

  Commuter Zen #4

  In this installment of Commuter Zen, Michael addresses a question about the viability of organized religion in today’s world.