Happiness 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.