Infinite Smile
Relevant spirituality in the midst of 21st century living.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 274
- Years Active
- 2005 - 2018
Encore: ISmile105 – The Three Levels of Practice
This podcast was originally offered in February of 2006.
___
In tonight’s talk, Michael discusses how our practice can be light, medium or deep. Deep practice takes us to the ragged edge of our pers…
Encore: ISmile69 – The Three Stages of Practice: Recognition, Resistance, & Renunciation
Encore Podcast – ISmile61 – At the Core of Everything is the Ninth Sense
This podcast was originally offered in June of 2005.
___
What is the Source of all things? In this talk, Michael pushes the limits of language by discussing the nature of Emptiness as it relates to…
ISmile284 – The Fierce Urgency of Now
In this Dharma talk, Michael McAlister starts by pointing out how the PBS NewsHour’s Mark Shields helped contextualize the killings in Tuscon, Arizona. In doing so, we find that there may be some sig…
ISmile283 – Buddhism’s Eight Winds Fanning the Fire of Resolve
In this Dharma talk, Michael McAlister offers his take on the “fire” needed to keep our spiritual life moving towards deeper and deeper levels of maturity. He suggests that these lives that we’re lea…
ISmile280 – Cultivating a Beginner’s Mind
My teacher‘s teacher, Shunryu Suzuki, offered up this famous spiritual pearl:
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.”
While its meaning may appear …
ISmile278 – Integrating Body, Mind and Practice
In this Dharma talk, Michael discusses the separation and anger he felt in relation to his teacher. At a very specific point during his practice, Michael learned that among the most important thing t…
ISmile277 – When The Bottom Falls Out From Underneath Us
In this Dharma talk, Michael discusses what’s required when great doubt begins to pervade our practice as well as our experience. When it feels like we’re dying inside and despair arises, he suggests…
ISmile276 – The Body, The Breath and Space
In this evening’s Dharma talk, Michael presents his view on how the attention paid to the body and the breath offers us a path to an expanse beyond words. It is here we receive an invitation to the t…
ISmile275 – These Awakenings Starts With Forgiveness
In this evening’s Dharma talk, Michael suggests that an authentic spiritual path must begin with the simple act of forgiveness. Uncovering what we can’t forgive allows for us to familiarize ourselves…
ISmile274 – Why Am I Here?
In this Dharma talk, Michael addresses what it means to question our motives for participating in a practice with a teaching, teacher and group of spiritual friends. From here an alchemy begins to un…
ISmile271 – The Great Spiritual Questions
In this Dharma talk, Michael addresses the question, “What am I?” with the sangha. In addition he explores questions relating to teachers and students.