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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 Insight and Love Reinforce One Another
Duration: 36 minutes
Shinzen gives guidelines for the practice of virya (the quality of intensity or energy). He discusses how Vipassana practice and loving kindness practice are intimately linked and in the end are the same practice. As Vipassana practice gradually dissolves the accumulated poison and pain of a lifetime, one gets insights and experiences purification, then it is very easy to generate states of friendliness or loving kindness. Also includes what you can expect to experience after you leave a retreat.
How Insight and Love Reinforce One Another
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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 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 InfoHow to Guide People Beyond Suffering
Duration: 4 Recordings: 1) 53 minutes; 2) 73 minutes; 3) 80 minutes 4) 58 minutes
Shinzen leads two separate guided meditations to two students who are suffering varying degrees of physical pain – one acutely intense. During the meditations, he explains the reason for certain questions and what direction information may lead. These four recordings would be extremely useful to anyone who may be in a position to guide someone who is experiencing pain, or to alleviate your own physical suffering.
How to Guide People Beyond Suffering
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Add to cartMore InfoHow to Manifest Singleness
Duration: 77 minutes
How Buddhism came into China; story of Bodhidharma; God Keeps Pitching and You Always Get Another Chance at Bat; Six Sense Gates Give Way to Expansion and Contraction and Ultimate Cessation; the Power of Emptiness; Sourcing; Intro-Description of Body Sensation, Qualities of Internal Talk and Image; the Beauty of Fully Manifesting a Self; Description of Categories: Talk, Image, Feel; Working with Tunes.
How to Manifest Singleness
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Add to cartMore InfoHow to Work with Dynamic Qualities
Duration: 49 minutes
Once a sensation is covered with mindfulness and equanimity one can become aware of its dynamic qualities. Shinzen outlines a strategy for & watching and yielding to the movement and non-movement qualities of body sensation which sets the stage for the purification of consciousness.
How to Work with Dynamic Qualities
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Add to cartMore InfoIn Praise of Confusion
Duration: 40 minutes
Shinzen lectures on the benefits that are gained when we learn to make friends with moments of confusion. He explains how this leads to both a state of calm and an up-welling of wisdom (prajña).
In Praise of Confusion
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Add to cartMore InfoIntroduction to Vipassana: Where the Path Leads
Duration: 2 Recordings: 1) 72 minutes; 2) 72 minutes
Describes the origin and method of Vipassana meditation and the results of this practice. Especially well-suited for explaining the practice to your non-meditating friends.
Introduction to Vipassana: Where the Path Leads
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Add to cartMore InfoJewish Mysticism
Duration: 55 minutes
Describes the parallels between Buddhism and Jewish Mysticism. Emphasizes the Kabbalistic concepts of bria yesh me’ayn (continuous creation of things from Nothing) and buttul ha-yesh (the annihilation of the somethingness of the self).
Jewish Mysticism
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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 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 InfoMaintaining Abstinence; Eating Meditation
Duration: 59 minutes
A guided meditation on how to work with the driver sensations associated with compulsive behavior in order to purify consciousness.
Maintaining Abstinence; Eating Meditation
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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 InfoMeditation: A New Kind of Learning
Duration: 59 minutes
A great first recording or first day of retreat recording (no matter how many retreats you’ve done). Shinzen explains how meditation is learning at all levels of the brain simultaneously, and how the simplicity of the retreat setting is optimal for rewiring to start to take place at deep levels of the nervous system. He also discusses how mindfulness and equanimity will affect our habits of making judgments and other undesirable behaviors.
Meditation: A New Kind of Learning
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Add to cartMore InfoMetta Meditation: Covering the Mind and Body with Awareness
Duration: 62 minutes
Two Guided Meditations: 1) Metta, and 2) Covering the Mind & Body with Awareness.
Metta Meditation: Covering the Mind and Body with Awareness
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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 InfoOn Buddhism: Bodhidharma and Maiakashyapa
Duration: 56 minutes
These are the stories of Mahakashyapa and Bodhidharma, including the introduction of Buddhism into China (which later became Zen in Japan), and the influences on our present day practice.
On Buddhism: Bodhidharma and Maiakashyapa
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