Michael Stone on the Relationship Between Yoga and Buddhism
What is the relationship between yoga and Buddhism? Are they compatible or are they two distinct and separate paths? In this video, Michael Stone explores the connections between yoga & Buddhism,...
View ArticleMichael Stone on the Inner Tradition of Yoga
For many initiates, yoga may appear to be purely a corporeal activity; a practice related solely to the pursuit of fitness, or perhaps as a recreational and social pastime to be enjoyed with friends....
View ArticleConnecting Your Yoga Practice to What Really Matters
The heart of yoga is the practice of connecting with what really matters. These days when what passes as “practice” is a focus on the external geometry of yoga postures, it’s important that we let the...
View ArticleMaking Sense of the Tsunami and the Crisis in Japan
On 11 March 2011 at 2:46pm (JST), a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific Ocean off the north-eastern coast of Japan near the city of Sendai. The largest earthquake in Japan’s recorded...
View ArticleMichael Stone on the Question, "How Do I Enter My Life?"
I woke up this morning at the usual time, around 5am, to look out the window to a newly fallen blanket of snow. Isn’t it supposed to be spring?, I muttered as I threw the pillow over my head. Even...
View ArticleMichael Stone on Drugs and the Dharma
Reflections on the spiritual path and the place of drug use. The following interview with Michael Stone took place in September 2010, while Michael was teaching at the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New...
View ArticleRemaining Human: A Buddhist Perspective on Occupy Wall Street
By Michael Stone.A man stands on a bench in Zuccotti Park on Wall Street and chants a phrase from a meeting last night: "We don't want a higher standard of living, we want a better standard of living."...
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