Centre of Gravity
By Michael Stone
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Recordings of Michael Stone's teachings or those of guest teachers at Centre of Gravity are offered freely. Please consider making a donation to cover the costs of recording, storing and designing this on-line offering and supporting Centre of Gravity. Donation is a practice of interdependence and without financial support these teachings would not be offered in this way. Much gratitude.
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Lotus Sutra 20 ~ Forgiveness as the Heart of Practice | The Deepest Practice a Bodhisattva can ever do is to listen deeply. The deepest thing we can ever experience is having a change of heart. Last evening at Bellwoods location. July 12, 2011. | 5/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lotus Sutra 19 ~ Part 2 | Discussion about contemplating someone in your life who you have a hard time seeing as a Buddha. Buddha Nature is your imagination and the way you can re-see people who have wounded you. June 28, 2011. 20 min. | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lotus Sutra 19 ~ Part 1 | There is nowhere you can stand that is not a place the Buddha hasn't practiced. The Buddha was enlightened right where you are standing. If you can see others as a Buddha you are a Buddha - even animals and trees. Story of Never Disparaging Buddha and Mark Ragosian who lived in Woodstock New York. June 28, 2011. 45 min. | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lotus Sutra 17 | Grant Hutchinson and Carina Lof give a talk on Chapter 15 and 16 of the Lotus Sutra based on study group. Seeing what is actually in our lives not just what we want to see. If your kids won't take medicine how do you give it to them? June 21, 2011. 40 min. | 4/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lotus Sutra 16 ~ The Empty Room | One day I can have such a killer exhale that I end as a puddle of bones on the floor and time passes instantly. A moving evening when Mike Holboom and Christine Koch give talks on Chapter 16 of the Lotus Sutra. June 14, 2011. 45 min. | 4/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lotus Sutra 15 ~ There is No Such Thing as an Atom | Everyone continually breaks down infinitely. How fast can a young woman get enlightened, especially if she is underwater? Michael unpacks some parables to explore the story of an 8 yr old girl who wakes up and touches every place in the Universe. June 7, 2011, 45 min. | 3/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Burning House, Burning Marshmallows by Grant Hutchinson | Grant Hutchinson on Dogen's Mountains and Waters Sutra: the great mystery of our lives is spoken through language, the burning house, practice unpacks your knapsack, the monks are burning in Tibet, Jane Hirshfield's tree, Elaine's marshmallows. Recorded March 6, 2012. | 3/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lotus Sutra 14 : Life is Like a Funeral | Five kinds of Fear. Michael talks about fear, community and how it grows, a poem by Leonard Cohen, generosity, and then he reads his own poem about his mother. May 31, 2011. | 3/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lotus Sutra 13 : We Need Bodhisattvas | People who can rub our back and say "it's ok" and everything they do is jewelled. May 24, 2011. 45 min. | 3/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lotus Sutra, Part 11 ~ A Jewel in Your Coat | A man falls asleep at a party and someone sews a jewel in his coat. Some have done this for you too. Can you realize your treasures? May 17, 2011. 45 mins | 3/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Introduction to Meditation ~ Sometimes Awake, Sometimes Asleep... | Sometimes Awake, Sometimes Asleep. Sometimes Sun, Sometimes Moon. Michael teaches during a one-day introduction to meditation workshop. How you can turn anything into a practice, even a bike lock. May 14, 2011 1hr. | 3/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lotus Sutra 9 ~ What Ideas Do We Have Lying Around? | Michael talks about Milton Friedman, Emmanuel Levinas, and how when we don't see another's face, face to face, it's easy to kill. This talk happens after Osama Bin Laden's death and the Canadian election. It goes back and forth between internal practices and community life. May 3, 2011. 50 min | 2/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guided Meditation ~ 20 Minutes | Michael Stone leads a guided meditation beginning with grounding the body, opening to sound, and feeling the breath as an anchor to present experience. May 2, 2011, 21 mins | 2/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lotus Sutra, Part 7 : Time in the Lotus Sutra | How many kelps, ages, aeons, did the Buddha sit still before he could wake up? Why did it take so long? It takes a while for the light to shine into the darkest places. What is our relationship to time? April 12, 2011, 46 min | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Three Levels of Ethics : Literal, Compassionate, Koan | One of the last days of the 6 month Precepts course where we chant Heart Sutra followed by five students describing ethical values and a talk on Michael about 3 ways of thinking about ethics. And how to look at a flower and smile. April 7, 2011, 1 hour. | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lotus Sutra, Part 6: The Parable of the Prodigal Son | A son leaves his father and 50 years later the father finds ways of healing the son's low self-esteem. You don't have to be good or walk on your knees for a hundred miles, just love what you love. Centre of Gravity, Toronto. 1 hr. April 5, 2011. | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lotus Sutra, Part 5 : Upaya & The Parable of the Burning House. | Michael begins by discussing death and Japan's earthquake. Using the image of the burning house and a father trying to save his children, he teaches how we need to leave our burning houses on our own steam, nobody can do it for us. The father in the parable, like the Buddha, uses skillful means to teach a path of freedom. And, is it ok to lie to uphold compassion? March 29, 2011. 1 hour. | 1/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 17 Episodes |
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