Episodes
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Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2024.04.22
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20 hours ago
This is my dharma talk on April 22, 2024, about Story Stewardship. How deeply do you treasure the stories of those dear to you? In what ways are the stories that you tell yourself holding you back or keeping you small? Where did we find the stories that call forth our deeper strength and wisdom? This was the final in a series of three Dharma talks about Brené Brown’s Theory of Cultivating Meaningful Connection.
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Monday Apr 15, 2024
Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2024.04.15
Monday Apr 15, 2024
Monday Apr 15, 2024
This is my dharma talk on April 15, 2024, about the Courage to Walk Alongside. How well do you respect your own boundaries and the boundaries of others? How much do you focus on how you can empower others? How attentive are you that all the aspects that make a relationship thrive? This was the second in a series of three Dharma talks about Brené Brown’s Theory of Cultivating Meaningful Connection.
This is the quote sheet for the talk.
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2024.04.08
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Monday Apr 08, 2024
This is my dharma talk on April 8, 2024, about Grounded Confidence. How deeply have you arrived in yourself? How rigorously honest are you with yourself? How fully do you accept the totality of who you are? This was the first in a series of three Dharma talks about Brené Brown’s Theory of Cultivating Meaningful Connection.
This is the quote sheet for the talk.
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2024.04.01
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Monday Apr 01, 2024
This is my dharma talk on April 1, 2024, about Facing Difficult Truths. How open and undefended are we in the face of feedback? How do we expand our emotional capacity? How rigorously honest are we with ourselves?
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Monday Mar 25, 2024
Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2024.03.25
Monday Mar 25, 2024
Monday Mar 25, 2024
This is my dharma talk on March 25, 2024, about Surrender. Why do we cling so tenaciously to the illusion of control? How is letting go conducive to our growth, joy, and freedom? How do we learn to trust the deeper and wiser forces that govern our destiny?
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Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2024.03.11
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
Thursday Mar 14, 2024
This is my dharma talk on March 11, 2024, about Self-Love. Why is one's level of self-love such an important issue in all areas of one's life? What is the relationship of self-love and self-discipline? How does the path of self-love involve embracing the paradoxes of healing?
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2024.02.26
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
This is my dharma talk on February 26, 2024, about White Privilege. For white people, how does the challenge of seeing and unpacking our white privilege resemble many other challenges on the spiritual path? How does Buddhism help us to understand the harm caused by white privilege? How willing are we to embrace all the sacrifices necessary to love all beings?
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Monday Feb 19, 2024
Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2024.02.19
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Monday Feb 19, 2024
This is my dharma talk on February 19, 2024, about Living a Noble Life. What does it mean to move through the world in a noble way? What truly motivates our virtues and our efforts to do good in the world? Why does Buddhism describe the four central truths and the eightfold path as noble?
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Monday Feb 12, 2024
Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2024.02.12
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Monday Feb 12, 2024
This is my dharma talk on February 12, 2024, about Emptying and Emptiness. Why do the world's religious traditions all urge us to empty ourselves out? How does the deep spiritual logic of emptying ourselves run so counter to the stories about consumption and filling ourselves up that are so prevalent in this culture? What is meant by the Buddhist idea of emptiness? This talk fell on the Monday before Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent.
This is the quote sheet for the talk.
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Mike’s Dharma Talk, 2024.02.05
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
This is my dharma talk on February 5, 2024, about Radical Self-Responsibility. What does it mean to take deep responsibility for how we feel and for our emotional states? How do we embrace responsibility for our boundaries and for how others impact us? Why is it that we cannot find the rich satisfaction that we seek and that we intuitively know we deserve unless we make the decision to grow up fully in life?
This is the quote sheet for the talk.