Infinite Smile Podcast
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The Zen-inspired teachings of Michael McAlister are currently reaching a global audience. His non-dogmatic, accessible, and often amusing style of teaching work to inspire the hearts and minds of his students. And, fortunately, there is usually a little laughter along the way.
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ISmile323 – The Enormity of What You Really Are
Author: Michael McAlister
Fri, Feb 10, 2012
When we let ourselves truly recognize what lies beyond our preferences and our attachments, we begin to get a sense of how expansive we really are. This recognition can be an explosive experience that rattles us to our core, scaring us from continuing our practice. In this talk, Michael encourages us to stay the course, [...]
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Where does God fit into Zen practice?
Author: Michael McAlister
Wed, Feb 08, 2012
Commuter Zen #72 Tweet
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How do we let go of letting go?
Author: Michael McAlister
Fri, Jan 27, 2012
Commuter Zen #77 Tweet
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Is there such a thing as enlightened dating?
Author: Michael McAlister
Thu, Jan 19, 2012
Commuter Zen #76 Tweet
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ISmile322 – Conscious Choice
Author: Michael McAlister
Fri, Jan 13, 2012
“There is only choice,” as Michael has pointed out. Even not choosing is a choice. Even in spontaneous expressions of joy or pain, we choose how we will relate to the ways in which we meet these experiences. When we open to the truth that all things are temporary, our choices begin to take on a [...]
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To what extent should I keep my spiritual guard up?
Author: Michael McAlister
Wed, Jan 11, 2012
Commuter Zen #75 Tweet
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What is Spirit?
Author: Michael McAlister
Fri, Jan 06, 2012
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Meditation Connected to Happiness
Author: Michael McAlister
Tue, Jan 03, 2012
Thought this was an interesting piece from Shambhala SunSpace: Via David Sillito of the BBC comes this report — with more to come — featuring Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard (aka, the “happiest man in the world”) and others, exploring the connection behind mindfulness meditation and science. Tweet
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ISmile321 – It All Starts With Forgiveness
Author: Michael McAlister
Wed, Dec 21, 2011
In this evening’s talk, Michael discusses the opportunity that each and every life event, no matter how great or how small, how wonderful or how dark, gives each of us the chance to awaken. He points to what is always prior to any experience and equates this “priority” to the teaching at the core of [...]
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How does one balance discipline with kindness?
Author: Michael McAlister
Tue, Dec 20, 2011
Commuter Zen #73 Tweet
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After all of this sitting, why am I still so screwed up?
Author: Michael McAlister
Wed, Dec 14, 2011
Commuter Zen #72 Tweet
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ISmile320 – Living Without Insulation
Author: Michael McAlister
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
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 attachments work to insulate us from a full exposure to this very life that we are leading, according to Michael in this evening’s talk. “When awakening happens,” he says, “there [...]
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What do we do when our practice plateaus?
Author: Michael McAlister
Tue, Dec 06, 2011
Commuter Zen #71 Tweet
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ISmile319 – Rubber Bands and Shortcuts
Author: Michael McAlister
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
In this talk, Michael addresses several issues; among them, how we often lose the view we’ve been offered by insight. He’s written about this and calls it “The Rubber Band Effect,” and suggests that we take pains to examine its source. Doing so helps us see not only how practice helps us develop a greater [...]
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Where does the ego come from?
Author: Michael McAlister
Tue, Nov 29, 2011
Commuter Zen #70 Tweet
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ISmile318 – Thanksgiving and Emptiness
Author: Michael McAlister
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
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 your support and participation in this project of awakening. Recognizing our gratitude elevates our experience as human beings, so taking this time to appreciate all of the [...]
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Does Emptiness Evolve?
Author: Michael McAlister
Thu, Nov 24, 2011
Commuter Zen #69 Tweet
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ISmile317 – Stepping Beyond Heart and Mind
Author: Michael McAlister
Sat, Nov 19, 2011
Regardless of our tradition, we can reduce our spiritual practice to its component pieces and find that Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths offers us a path toward freedom. We first recognize our anguish, we then see it’s cause as our clinging, we then realize a freedom from our clinging is possible and finally we see that [...]
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ISmile316 – Meditating Through Life’s Mess
Author: Michael McAlister
Wed, Nov 09, 2011
Michael begins this talk with the following quotation from Rilke’s Duino Elegies: For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. This sets up his talk by making the point that it’s in our desire to [...]
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ISmile315 – The One Precept: Do No Harm
Author: Michael McAlister
Wed, Oct 26, 2011
In this talk, Michael speaks about how the One Precept of “Doing No Harm” can actualize the potential of awakening in any situation. Along these lines, Michael openly shares how he and his wife have separated so that their marriage might be exposed to a more powerful expanse of clarity. He relates this shared decision [...]
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The Personality: Before and After Awakening
Author: Michael McAlister
Tue, Oct 25, 2011
Commuter Zen #68 (Story of Betinho Massero should have been attributed to Jeff Foster) Tweet
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