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Add to cartMore InfoBasic Principles of Body Sweeping
Duration: 50 minutes
Shinzen gives a brief description and rationale for using the technique of ‘sweeping’ or ‘scanning’, which is a strategy for bringing awareness to body sensations. He then opens a Q&A session addressing in depth questions regarding the technique of sweeping/scanning, pain and purification, working through extreme sensations and how to ‘love something to death’.
Basic Principles of Body Sweeping
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Add to cartMore InfoCalming the Mind
Duration: 57 minutes
Three graded exercises for calming the mind are presented:
1) Returning the attention to the breath;
2) Watching the rising and fading of thought; and
3) Allowing everything to arise in the mind without any effort to control it and having equanimity with it.
Calming the Mind
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Add to cartMore InfoDon't Know Mind
Duration: 46 minutes
Shinzen talks about how to work in a meditative way with not having the answer and the related phenomenon of wanting to know or needing a plan; and how confusion can be used as a tool to achieve both calm mind and wisdom mind.
Don’t Know Mind
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Add to cartMore InfoHow to Choose Your Meditation Technique
Duration: 52 minutes
Shinzen addresses the frequently asked question, “What technique should I use in my meditation practice in terms of retreats and my daily sitting?” He gives guidelines to help you make choices regarding techniques and shares the one underlying commonality in all techniques. He discusses in detail various strategies and techniques in the Vipassana practice. Explains the different phenomena that come up while meditating and what to do if experienced. Talks about the nature of enlightened consciousness.
How to Choose Your Meditation Technique
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How to Do Noting
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Add to cartMore InfoLoving Kindness
Duration: 55 minutes
This is a lecture on cultivating effortless loving kindness and compassion. One way to reveal your natural loving kindness is to make a series of affirmations with visualizations. Another way is to experience your body as porous energy and modulate that energy with the message of love. Thus insight into the impermanence of your senses can be used to spread your loving kindness throughout your body and your world.
Loving Kindness
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Add to cartMore InfoWorking with Obsessive Thinking
Duration: 53 minutes
Shinzen discusses the ‘bête noire’ of meditation – obsessive thoughts. He then gives techniques that could help to deal with our ‘monkey mind’ and ‘thinking voices’ using mantra, vocal labeling, monitoring the talk, etc. Also discussed are obsessive tunes and the driven desires they may represent.
Working with Obsessive Thinking
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