The Beginner's Guide to Meditation

The Beginner's Guide to Meditation - Shinzen Young
What if there were a pill that could calm and clarify the mind, transform fatigue into energy...and even improve your physical health? Until that scientific breakthrough happens, teaches Shinzen Young, there is another one that has already been proven at medical centers and universities around the world - the ancient science of meditation. On The Beginner's Guide to Meditation, listeners learn exactly how specific inner techniques affect the mind and body - how to establish a daily meditation practice - plus, a complete five-part guided session to help listeners begin experiencing the benefits of meditation immediately.

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How do I find a good meditation teacher?

How do I find a good meditation teacher? - Shinzen Young
Shinzen speaks to the question "How do I find a good meditation teacher." Shinzen talks about the activity of teaching as subtle teaching, descriptive teaching, and explicit teaching. Filmed at Mt. Carmel Spiritual Centre in Niagara Falls.

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Five Classic Meditations - Shinzen Young

Five Classic Meditations - Shinzen Young

Meditation offers many benefits: increased self-discipline and concentration, new spiritual insights, compassion for other living beings. But there are so many forms of meditation, choosing one can be stressful! Examine 5 different meditations - Mantra, Vipassana, Loving Kindness, Karma Yoga, and Kabbalah - and decide which works best for you. Shinzen Young is an ordained Buddhist monk who's spent a lifetime studying Eastern cultures and is now the director of the Community Meditation Center of Los Angeles.

• Mantra Meditation: A powerful way to calm the mind and body
• Vipassana Meditation: The ancient Buddhist path to developing new wisdom, insight, and understanding
• Loving Kindness Meditation: A way to live every moment of your life with more joy, warmth, intimacy, and connectedness
• Karma Yoga Meditation: A spiritual exercise to make your daily work a meditation practice
• Kabbalah Meditation: A path to understanding, accepting, and integrating into your life the forces of creation that flow in and around you

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Break Through Difficult Emotions - Shinzen Young

My thanks to Ev for this great book.

Break Through Difficult Emotions - Shinzen Young
Difficult Emotions? Try These Meditations -
For the first time, Shinzen Young teaches specific meditation practices for transforming anger, grief, resentment – any emotion that makes your life difficult. In four easy-to-follow exercises, you will learn how to: Deconstruct any emotion into its harmless components • Identify the location, shape, and flow of your emotions • "Melt" frozen emotions into their natural, fluid state • Contact body sensations – the gateway to emotional liberation • Untangle mental confusion by "watching" your thoughts; and much more. The first meditation system for gaining freedom from harmful emotions – by escaping into them.


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Shinzen Young - The science of enlightenment meditation buddhism

Shinzen Young - The science of enlightenment meditation buddhism

What is enlightenment? Is it a myth or is it real? On The Science of Enlightenment, you will learn that the liberated state is as real as the sensations you are having right now. For it is through the investigation of your own thoughts and feelings that you can awaken to clear insight and a happiness independent of conditions: the state of enlightenment. Through his expertise in both science and spirituality, meditation teacher Shinzen Young demystifies the principles of awakening hidden within the world's great spiritual traditions and shows you how to use them in your own life.

Here, in an unequalled 12-tape course covering traditional teachings, scientific insights, and practical instruction, you will test for yourself the discoveries of the great wisdom traditions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Jewish mysticism, Sufism, Hinduism, shamanism, and many others. Why issingle-pointed concentration so highly regarded on every contemplative path? How do you move beyond emotional/intellectual blocks and into a state of highest presence? Where do psychic powers and other mystical phenomena fit in the architecture of enlightenment? How do you know if your meditation practice is working?

On The Science of Enlightenment, Shinzen Young elucidates these questions with precision and intelligence, demonstrating why he is regarded as one of the Western world's most articulate and understandable teachers of classical mystical experience. The search for awakening is not limited to a chosen few. It is a field open for you to investigate - once you possess theinner technologies to do so. Now you can begin that investigation, with The Science of Enlightenment. Six complete guided meditation sessions.

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