500 episodes
Buddhist practice with its feet on the ground.
Awake in the World preserves live talks where Buddhist practice is treated as bodily, relational, and socially engaged work. The mood is quiet but demanding, moving from breath and posture into generosity, nonviolence, love, social change, and the hard practice of asking for help.
Awake in the World collects live Buddhist talks centered on Michael Stone's teaching. The show is spacious. It gives ideas room to breathe, circle back, and become practical. A talk may begin with posture, with the gaze soft and the body grounded, then widen into a full account of attention, ethics, and how practice changes conduct. Meditation is not presented as escape here. It is treated as contact. Breath, body, agitation, ease, and stillness become the first sites of moral life. From there, the teaching moves outward. Relationships matter. Asking for help matters. Receiving generosity can be as difficult as offering it, and the show lingers over that difficulty without turning it into a slogan. Buddhist vocabulary is present, but it is usually pulled toward lived situations. Ahimsa becomes more than a principle of non-harm. Shamatha becomes a way of easing fixation rather than forcing calm. Koans become tools for intimacy with a problem rather than clever riddles. The public world is never far away. Stone connects personal practice to homelessness, environmental trouble, social change, beauty, civic neglect, and the strange work of choosing battles that are small enough to win and large enough to matter. The live recordings keep their human edges. There are classroom exchanges, side comments, laughter, repeated phrases, and the feeling of people thinking together in real time. That texture gives the archive warmth. It also makes the teaching feel accountable to the room. Awake in the World is best for listeners who want Buddhist practice tied to bodies, relationships, and public responsibility. It is reflective, intimate, and serious without becoming remote.
Made for: For listeners drawn to Buddhist practice, meditation, ethical life, and socially engaged spirituality. It especially suits people who prefer live teaching that moves patiently between formal practice and ordinary human difficulty.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by refusing to keep meditation, mental health, relationships, and public responsibility in separate rooms. Its live-classroom feel makes the teachings less packaged and more embodied.
Awake in the World Podcast is a library of talks on a wide-range of topics, including bringing mindfulness and meditation practice into daily life; personal and community issues regarding mental health; and social change. The podcasts were recorded at live events so you might hear coughing, airplanes, cars, sirens, laughter, and peoples’ questions—all part of the intimate experience. Michael Stone (1974-2017) was a Buddhist teacher, author, and mental health advocate. His legacy is stewarded by Carina Stone. Podcast funded by Patreon (patreon.com/michaelstone).
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A chapter-five Shantideva talk that moves from practice to temple images and the politics of beauty.
This Awake in the World installment stays close to Michael Stone as he moves through chapter five of Shantideva, where the verses are said to start becoming practices.
Mindfulness is linked to bodies, relationships, and political reality.
Awake in the World treats mindfulness as disciplined work: making contact with the heart and body, dropping fixed ideas, and meeting experience without refusal.
A concise, practice-focused look at how awareness, ethics, and intimacy connect in Michael Stone's talk.
Awake in the World links awareness, ethics, mindfulness, and morality through three levels of ethics: the literal, the compassionate, and the koan level of intimacy.
Consent and care are shown through music videos, touch, and the discipline of hearing no.
This conversation treats values, consent, intimacy, and body autonomy as part of ordinary family life. A certified sexual health educator brings lived experience with communities, people of all ages, and families, and the discussion stays close to daily moments: watching a music…
A grounded Buddhist argument against treating every feeling as a sentence from the past.
Michael Stone's class on karma pushes back against the habit of treating every feeling as a verdict from the past. Returning to an early teaching, he follows Sivaka as he brings the Buddha a doctrine claiming that pleasant, painful, and neutral experiences all come from past…
Generous Buddhist conversations without the rush.
This episode features a guided meditation from Michael Stone's 'Awake in the World' podcast.
Michael Stone explores the Buddhist concept of karma, redefining it from fate to creative action in the present moment.
This episode introduces Michael Stone's podcast 'Awake in the World,' focusing on mindfulness and mental health through online spiritual practices and community building.
This episode is a 20-minute guided meditation by Michael Stone designed to help listeners manage unstable emotions through mindfulness and breathing techniques.
Michael Stone opens by placing the podcast inside an online community library.
This episode introduces Michael Stone's mindfulness podcast and online community library, focusing on bringing spiritual practice and mental health awareness into daily life through meditation and posture guidance.
This episode introduces Michael Stone's podcast 'Awake in the World', which focuses on mindfulness, mental health, and creating an online community for conscious spiritual practice.
This episode from Michael Stone's podcast explores the Jhanas, the four stages of concentration in meditation, as part of a broader mission to promote mindfulness and mental health through online spiritual practice.
This episode introduces a mindfulness practice focused on letting go of control and feeling one's breath as part of a spiritual awakening community.
Awake in the World begins with a sense of community.
Michael Stone's Awake in the World Podcast uses Ahimsa, honesty, asteya, brahmacharya, and aparigraha to argue that ethics changes with relationship.
Awake in the World looks at the ties between awareness, ethics, mindfulness, and morality.
A certified sexual health educator frames consent as something lived, not just taught.
This episode introduces Michael Stone's podcast focused on mindfulness and mental health through guided meditation and spiritual practice.
This episode is a 20-minute guided meditation by Michael Stone designed to help listeners manage unstable emotions through mindfulness and breathing techniques.
This episode is a 20-minute guided meditation focused on feeling the sensations of the body as part of a mindfulness and mental health initiative.