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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 InfoA Special Kind of Nothing
Shinzen speaks about the special kind of “nothing” found in the world – scientifically, mathematically and spiritually. Spiritually, when you have a complete experience of “something” it dissolves into its basic source and that “emptiness” then becomes all the richness that was contained in the something. It’s the “nothing” that can hold everything together
A Special Kind of Nothing
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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 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 InfoCarrying Meditation Into Life
Duration: 52 Minutes
How to carry meditation from retreats and cultivate it mindfully in daily life. Provides several specific techniques. Includes interesting stories from Shinzen’s life as a monk.
Carrying Meditation Into Life
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Add to cartMore InfoChant: Om Mani Padme Hum
Duration: 50 minutes
Early every morning during his retreats, Shinzen leads the traditional Om Mani Padme Hum chant. This recording contains two versions of the chant, each preceded by a short focusing exercise. Listen or chant along!
Chant: Om Mani Padme Hum
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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 InfoConceptual Aspects of Vipassana
Duration: 70 minutes
1) Complimentary pairs on this Path including efforting and clarifying, as well as calming and concentrating practices;
2) How the willingness to experience the poignancy of the “Spiritual Human Sacrifice” is a deep purification;
3) How to get a continuous flow of pleasure;
4) How limited identity is created and replaced by a paradoxical identity;
5) Four ways to contact the “Invisible Field of Spirit.”
Conceptual Aspects of Vipassana
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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 InfoConnecting to the Source
Duration: 56 minutes
Shinzen talks about the self and oneness. He explains some sensitizing techniques that either focus on or away from the self, but that develop concentration while yielding insight and purification. He offers that although it isn’t ‘bad’ to have a sense of self arising; what is bad is not knowing how the sense of self arises, or how the sense of oneness arises. It’s the difference between ‘samadhi with a seed’ or ‘samadhi without a seed’.
Connecting to the Source
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Add to cartMore InfoConsciousness and Negative Entropy
Duration: 40 minutes
Human beings are highly ordered pieces of the universe. Yet, we are constantly forced to face disorder. Our nature is for the mind to fight moment by moment to figure things out and for the body to try and become comfortable, but sometimes this is impossible so we need to have direct contact with an ordering principal that can never be disordered, then we never have to fear disorder of the mind and body. Shinzen describes this ordering force in detail.
Consciousness and Negative Entropy
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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 InfoDissolving the World, Melting the Heart
Duration: 77 minutes
In two guided meditations, Shinzen draws our awareness to the changes and movement of our senses – the impermanence that teaches us how to ‘un-become’ a phenomenon until there is no time to experience ourselves as an object. Within that experience in the first meditation, he then concludes with a short metta meditation, and in the second session ends with a challenging concentration technique.
Dissolving the World, Melting the Heart
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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 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 InfoEquanimity the Easy Way
Duration: 60 minutes
Shinzen talks of the pleasure that can come from meditation and how to create a positive feedback loop, causing increased fulfillment, and thus, more motivation to do the work. He also describes different types of bliss, and the power of becoming intimate with flavor or body sensations.
Equanimity the Easy Way
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Add to cartMore InfoEscaping Into Life
Duration: 39 minutes
Our usual way of coping with uncomfortable situations is to “tighten up” and turn away. By turning toward and opening up to these circumstances we can find true freedom.
Escaping Into Life
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Add to cartMore InfoFather God, Mother God
Duration: 75 minutes
The flow of impermanence can also be described as expansion and contraction. Joshu Sasaki, one of Shinzen’s teachers, thinks of God or the creative force as Mother and Father. It takes both activities, expansion and contraction, to create anything. When we fixate our consciousness we see the created forms rather than the activity of the Source of creation.
Father God, Mother God
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Add to cartMore InfoFive Techniques: Strategies for the Spiritual Path
Duration: 72 minutes
In an interview by Stephanie Nash, Shinzen talks about his five techniques and strategies for a spiritual path on how to get to know yourself at the deepest level: Focus In, Focus Out, Focus on Rest States, Focus on Impermanence and Loving Kindness.
Five Techniques: Strategies for the Spiritual Path
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