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Add to cartMore InfoOn Buddhism: Shila, Samadhi and Prajna
Duration: 58 minutes
Buddhism is fond of using numerical categories as devices of memorization. The whole path can be conceived of in the Three Fold Training, probably the simplest of these divisions. Shinzen speaks on the concepts of Shila (precepts), the misunderstanding of Samadhi (concentration) and Prajña (wisdom). Delving back into pre-history and leaping forward into scientific, mathematical and psychological concepts, Shinzen demonstrates the complexities of these simple categories.
On Buddhism: Shila, Samadhi and Prajna
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Add to cartMore InfoOvercoming Three Seemingly Insurmountable Obstacles to Enlightenment
Duration: 54 minutes
Shinzen discusses some obstacles & challenges on the meditative path, such as ‘the more I practice, the worse it gets; I’m not worthy; it’s all one, so I’m not doing or feeling anything; education of the no-self and no longer needing to make an objective of the self or world – ever’.
Overcoming Three Seemingly Insurmountable Obstacles to Enlightenment
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Add to cartMore InfoParadigms of Purification
Duration: 60 minutes
Describes several alternative conceptual models for the process of purifying consciousness. Discusses paradigms from morality, theology, psychology and physics.
Paradigms of Purification
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Add to cartMore InfoParallels Between Buddhism and Christianity
Duration: 60 minutes
Describes in detail the Christian analogue to Vipassana meditation and discuss why most western Christians are unaware that such a practice exists in their tradition.
Parallels Between Buddhism and Christianity
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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 InfoShinzen's 15-Minute Workout
Duration: 15 minutes
For first-time or experienced meditators or for “those on the go,” a short guided meditation covering all bases, focusing on body sensations and energy qualities to a centered place. Leaves you focused, alert and sensitized.
Shinzen’s 15-Minute Workout
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Add to cartMore InfoShinzen's 20-Minute Relaxation
Duration: 20 minutes
Whether you are a first-time or long-time meditator, while using his Core Practice approach, Shinzen guides you to become calm, centered and relaxed – quickly when you need it the most. This tape was produced from work Shinzen has been developing for interactive use.
Shinzen’s 20-Minute Relaxation
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Add to cartMore InfoSimplifications
Duration: 63 minutes
An overview of why one meditates leads to a discussion of the forces that lead to spirituality, the six senses which reduce to the simplicity of expansion and contraction and zero, an experience of true peace.
Simplifications
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Add to cartMore InfoSix Paramitas
Duration: 54 minutes
The paramitas are practices that can be mastered to transport you to enlightenment. They are generosity, morality, patience, energy, concentration and wisdom. ‘Paramita’ in Sanskirt means both perfection and reaching the other shore.
Six Paramitas
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Add to cartMore InfoSlowing Down and Dissolution
Duration: 51 minutes
Shinzen offers two guided meditations:
1) How to slow down internal talk using a technique called Echoing.
2) How to use body, image, feel and thought for urges and desires to experience qualities of impermanence.
Slowing Down and Dissolution
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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 InfoStrong Sitting, Kriyas, Drivenness
Duration: 60 minutes
During a Q&A session at a retreat, Shinzen answers questions on topics about:
1) Metta versus Vipassana Meditation,
2) Consciously evoking material to work on;
3) Strong determination sitting;
4) Kriyas (involuntary movement during sitting); and
5) Drivenness
Strong Sitting, Kriyas, Drivenness
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Add to cartMore InfoTalks on Teaching Series
Duration: Track 1 – 61 min; Track 2 – 42 min; Track 3 – 41 min; Track 4 – 76 min;
Track 5 – 46 min; Track 6 – 45 min; Track 7 – 46 min; Track 8 – 71 min.
These are recordings of three different workshops led by Shinzen Young in Tucson, AZ and Boulder, CO in 1999 but still relevant today. The focus of these workshops, unlike any before led by Shinzen, was the teaching process and how to apply it to meditation. These recordings contain his theories & formulas, lots of Q&A, and role- playing of the situations & questions that come up when teaching. A great learning tool for anyone who wants to teach or even just wants to describe their practice to someone.
Talks on Teaching Series
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Add to cartMore InfoThanatos and Eros
Duration: 46 minutes
Considered by many to be one of Shinzen’s most extraordinary public talks, Shinzen describes “The Big Picture” of human existence in terms of two fundamental principles: Love (eros) and Death (thanatos). Contains a step-by- step procedure for guiding others through their dying process. Also speaks about using sexual experience as a platform for spiritual growth. At the end of the talk, Shinzen recites Goethe’s “Holy Longing” in German and English as a surprise for his old friend, Nicola Geiger. Nicola reveals that she recited that same poem to her father on his deathbed.
Thanatos and Eros
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Add to cartMore InfoThe Big Picture
Duration: 70 minutes
Gives a historical overview of the three major training traditions in Buddhism: Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana. Describes the various types of insights experienced as a result of mediating. Discusses loving kindness and compassion.
The Big Picture
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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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