Tea and a Porch: Recent Episodes
Michael Smith
This is a very raw simple podcast about my life and awakening. Lets stop on the porch and talk about the small moments in life that offer so much. Lets explore the things that come up and see new ways of really navigating.
Topics - Music, Food, Relationships, Presence, Who we are, and how to find deep awakening, I mean really how to find it.
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This is a live lecture I gave this week at a philosophy class at Howard Community College. Professor Harvery Jackson invited me to speak.
Met with several students in a zen class at the college. Provided this presentation. Deep messages with native american flutes.
The American Dream is just that.. a dream. This episode I look at the insane chase for happiness we all run to. Let's look at another way.
This short podcast will guide you through the process of sensing pain deeply to know that it is ... Love.
A very deep look at open space and how to see it feel it and hear it as everything. How to live as this.. a long talk , a reminder.
This is a talk I gave at a zen class this week. I used cell phones as a way of sharing how we can go from a concentrated knowingness of being to an open boundless presence. Also talked about why we don't dive into our truth.
This podcast explores the illusions of what its really like to live as awakened. Do emotions still affect us? Are we supposed to be more mellow and feel peace and love all the time?
In this podcast I got into seeing all appearances as THAT. As the presence they are.. DO we really have to worry? DO we really have to be something, get somewhere?
Let's look at stories.. do they really do anything for us. Our stories we build up, our plays in our heads, what purpose do they serve... are they real.
Explore the senses here in this short talk about how to discover if the outer world is there or just an expression
This is a hot subject. To realize there is no freewill, leads to looking directly at realizing there is no YOU.
This is a very quick and strong hitting talk about how to really fall into and see presence. I recorded it while doing a drive , hope the noise is not too much.
Its the gap we often miss, we can easily find peace sitting in a room but how to find it during the day..??
This is a look back at what a holiday is, was and how to find peace in the holiday. Its a deep look at how our minds desire more and more.
I recently had someone I know end their life. I made this for anyone who is in a state of depression. Our young kids today need this I sense.
I recently spoke at the zen class at Ho Comm College. This talk goes into death, and living beyond death. I also use native American FLutes to explore emotions.
This was from a talk / Flute journey I presented at a philosophy class at Ho Co College. There were about 39 students. Most seemed to be listening , a few slept. I used a story of three individuals along with a native flute journey to bring awareness to the students. I hope you enjoy it also.
A little talk by a stream. Even though it sounds like a river. This was a super small stream.
Meditation at the end with the sound of the river/stream.
Are we amazing superheroes with the ability to let go and dissolve one scene to the next? Are we that amazing? what is this consciousness and how to keep it. really keep it. ? How to see it in everyday life? This little talk will explore it.
We are all learning and finding out ways to deal with patterns that we have picked up. This week I look at how to deal with anger. This comes from a personal experience and how I worked through it. Anger is a way of limiting ourself to a concentrated form of energy that hurts the body and constricts the flow of who we are. It is also a tool that can be used to dis-cover who we are.
Ok, Recorded this one while driving. This has some of the best pointers in it, but the road sounds in the back are a bit loud. I am still learning.
In this podcast i look at what it means to be a being of light, and what forgiveness really is from the nondual aspect.
I hope you enjoy the show.
Review of wtmd concert, bands as energy, music, and how to let go. Oh and anal retentive people too!
Talk about healing patterns, and how suffering and ending it can open Present Awareness. Also about how once patterns are healed the path of Present Awareness shines more and more. Some poems about Love and Weeping Willow Trees too and a Uke song.
A little talk about the rich illuminati, dead husbands and the big bang theory. These are some highlights from my week as i attempted to teach nonduality to the seniors in a few retirement communities. So much fun. Also some guitar music in 432hz
I came up with 8 things I noticed after enlightenment. These are the rules and how they work. Of course, there are 1000 more i am sure. This podcast goes into the rules and what they meant to me.
I had an IM conversation with someone looking to find out why their kisses are causing pain. I then acted out the conversation, in this first one-man play!! All characters are played by the boundless me.. talking to myself. (ok that sounded weird) Just listen you will get the idea. and a bonus visit by Barney the Cat.
This exciting podcast goes over the phases of awareness and awakening. How it opens in life, why and what next. I also discuss how and why the world seems cold after awakening, and how to deal with that.. add some guitar to this, a few poems, (you provide the tea) and we have another show!!
In this episode, I take a deep look, from experience, as to whether we wake up from sleeping and the world already exists or, does it appear just upon looking at it. Meaning is the teapot there as we sleep?? I also look at behavior and how we go into character and then see it after the effect, oh and I also look at memories!! This was a fun one. It just came about.
In this podcast I look at finding that place where you can include everything as sacred. Even a dogbowl. The outer world can be challenging. So how do blend and bridge the two
All about relationships from a nondual way of seeing. This question comes from a friend. So I helped her here.
I was invited to Howard Community College to speak to the philosophy class about the Nature of Reality. A large class of amazing students and a professor that is just going out of his way to teach nonduality! If only we all had this as students. This talk goes over the difference between living as a ME and as Presence.
It was a Sunday, I had some time so I threw this together. A bit of rambling about how sound and life "over there" is an illusion. A rather deep look into how to see the world truer and get out of "Story". UPdate of my week and some great Walt Whitman poetry.
This podcast is about what really is nonduality and how to access it in a very simple manner and incorporate it into your life. Then I share how to see it while getting a hair cut and live in the flow of presence. The pros and cons and the ways we make ourselves suffer. I also play some fantastic music at the beginning and talk about technology.
How does money effect us, how to make more? Why our boss is a dork? A short ramble of how to see through this fear and money story that jumps out at us.
Exploring music, Shakespear poetry, and some Rumi too.. Questions about life after death and reincarnation and how to deal with complete morons in the world. Are they really morons. Another episode of living in this world awakened and the rather odd things we see.
This was recorded down in Baltimore, busy noise and life within the podcast. Tips on how to see the world as an enlightened being. This podcasts covers these topics:
How to find the heart in a job you are burned out in. We will also look at some poetry by Charles Borkoski, talk about seeing life from Awareness, and answer a few questions about relationships and enlightenment.
Making a pot of green tea and talking about the Amish, cold, frozen trees, Superbowl, giving up sugar (holy hell) and how to start your week as present awareness and save a lot of pain.