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Add to cartMore InfoA Cure for Guilt and Shame
Duration: 75 minutes
“Blessed are the Flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.” Flexibility is the essence of purification, and Shinzen talks of how to work through fixating tendencies and allow the substance of our senses to become flexible. He talks of three levels of maturity on the spiritual path and how to “love the suffering to death.”
A Cure for Guilt and Shame
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Add to cartMore InfoAsceticism: Skill in Experiencing Discomfort
Duration: 31 minutes
This recording gives an interesting history of asceticism (discomfort) as defined in some spiritual traditions and the possible value of using discomfort to initiate a process of purification of consciousness. Whether as a spiritual practice or in our daily living, the question is how to do so skillfully or as paraphrased from Thomas Merton, “…not to suffer more than other people, but…to suffer more effectively.”
Asceticism: Skill in Experiencing Discomfort
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Add to cartMore InfoCompulsion
Duration: 64 minutes
Lays out a meditative path for liberation from compulsive/obsessive disorders. A veritable primer on approaching the mind through meditation.
Compulsion
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Add to cartMore InfoConfusion, Yuckies & Subtle Vibrations
Duration: 73 minutes
Shinzen discusses various phenomena that arise during meditation and being on the meditative path, such as having pleasant sensations versus icky, creepy ones, feeling confused, scattered and the ‘don’t know mind’, as well as tips leaving a retreat.
Confusion, Yuckies & Subtle Vibrations
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Add to cartMore InfoDealing with Fear and Anxiety
Duration: 61 minutes
Shinzen talks about fear & anxiety; working with fear and divide & conquer. In a Q&A session, he answers questions regarding being versus a ‘being grabbed by’ experience; how to observe & untangle; escaping into fear; experiencing fear fully – objects versus vibrations; and watching your ‘metta program’.
Dealing with Fear and Anxiety
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Add to cartMore InfoEnlightened Rage
Duration: 52 minutes
Begins with a guided meditation instructing you to think about something that makes you angry, to observe what part of that anger involves body sensations and what part involves the thinking process. By keeping track moment by moment of the components of rage and/or anger in the mind and body we can have the experience of & “enlightened rage” (anger that is a pure of flow energy).
Enlightened Rage
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Add to cartMore InfoHappiness for No Reason
Duration: 58 minutes
Starting with a story of his introduction to a Zen temple and giving entertaining and specific metaphors, Shinzen talks of the definition of Enlightenment and how to be happy independent of conditions.
Happiness for No Reason
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Add to cartMore InfoHow to Get Enlightenment in a Sauna
Duration: 58 minutes
Using different strategies and helpful metaphors, Shinzen describes in detail how to make mindful distinctions of body sensations — going into 3 sub-categories of heat and 3 emotional reactions to heat. He also gives specific applications to pain and to simply walking down the street as quick paths to enlightenment.
How to Get Enlightenment in a Sauna
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Add to cartMore InfoLearning from the Marathon Monks
Duration: 58 minutes
Referring to the extreme example of commitment of the Marathon Monks, Shinzen talks of how fatigue and physical pain can be the easiest flavors through which to get deep purification. Sleepy tired sensations and our subjective reactions to them can lead to increased energy and focus as well as deeper purification and insight.
Learning from the Marathon Monks
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Add to cartMore InfoMaking Daily Life a Sacred Monastery
Duration: 32 minutes
Transitions are major moments of opportunity; The process of digestion (breaking up into little pieces) of whatever comes up; day to day life stirs up karma juices; retroactive meditation – making a 5 minute determination meditation worth 5 hours; turning daily activity into meditation.
Making Daily Life a Sacred Monastery
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Add to cartMore InfoMeditating Through Fatigue
Duration: 40 minutes
When you get tired and sleepy it digs down into old material which takes you back to an early period associated with the initial formation of ego. There is an objective need (what the body actually requires) and a subjective need (the desire to avoid or have relief from certain unpleasant sensations). The subjective need can be transcended. Discusses a meditative approach for achieving this.
Meditating Through Fatigue
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Add to cartMore InfoMinor Irritations
Duration: 43 minutes
Shinzen covers topics such as minor annoyances, refined asceticism, untying knots, intention, inflation, purification, three dimensional suffering space, digesting karma, the axiom of consistency, conclusion.
Minor Irritations
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Add to cartMore InfoPleasure and Purification
Duration: 37 minutes
When we experience pleasure in a skillful way, blockages to happiness are worked out and our base line of satisfaction deepens. Pure pleasure purifies.
Pleasure and Purification
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Add to cartMore InfoPosture, Sleepiness and Discomfort
Duration: 75 minutes
The role of posture in practice; Working with sleepiness; Paying attention to transitions; Meditation as a vaccination against future larger pain; Dealing with discomforts while sitting; Very detailed description of working with pain and physical discomfort; Subjective body sensations/flavors of feeling; Discriminating internally generated feeling states associated with urge, desire and will.
Posture, Sleepiness and Discomfort
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Add to cartMore InfoRelationships: The Householder's Monastery
Duration: 43 minutes
Describes how we can use our intimate relationships as a monastic training ground to undergo the kind of spiritual transformation that monks and nuns experience as a result of their practice.
Relationships: The Householder’s Monastery
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Add to cartMore InfoSexuality and the Spiritual Path
Duration: 52 minutes
Shinzen gives his opinion as to why there is uptightness and guilt associated with sexual activity in so many cultures. He explains that what we really want is not erotic pleasure as an object, but the fulfillment and purification that comes from having a complete experience of pleasure. This does not depend on the intensity, duration or type of pleasure. Rather, complete pleasure is any pleasure experienced with continuity of awareness and zero interference.
Sexuality and the Spiritual Path
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Add to cartMore InfoSpiritual Bodywork
Duration: 59 minutes
Tells the benefits of maintaining a meditative techniques when you are receiving a massage or other body work. Gives practical tips on how to do this. A valuable resource to those who give and receive massage.
Spiritual Bodywork
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Add to cartMore InfoStep by Step Guide to Dealing with Huge Emotions
Duration: 54 minutes
Shinzen talks about some huge emotions and how meditation techniques can help on a daily basis. Topics include fear, phobia, making feelings elastic, the true alchemy, divide & conquer, the taste of purification and the math of purification.
Step by Step Guide to Dealing with Huge Emotions
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Add to cartMore InfoThe Dark Night Of The Soul
Duration: 50 minutes
Discusses an awkward intermediate state in spiritual development during which old motivations are seen as illusory. Everything is the same, so why do anything? Elaborates on how to get through this experience of lack of vitality and continue to grow personally and spiritually.
The Dark Night Of The Soul
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Add to cartMore InfoThought and Compulsiveness - Monkey Mind
Duration: 63 minutes
One of the greatest challenges for people when they meditate is the wandering mind. Shinzen outlines four techniques for working with & monkey mind. This tape also contains information on how to work with compulsive addictive behaviors.
Thought and Compulsiveness – Monkey Mind
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