Omg. Who on earth could have the endless patience to explore such minutiae of inner experience! I have always wondered what inspires Shinzed Young--- or anyone---to do this. But I'm glad he did, because his explanations have helped me enormously. Thank you Shinzen and poster.
I tried, from '69, to meditate, guided by dozens of teachers (not in person, mostly books). I gave up trying probably in the late 80s. I heard Shinzen on the radio (KPFK Los Angeles) in the late 90s. Best meditation teacher on the planet. This is not an opinion.
This is a good one...must listen again! Just a few years I would not have found this even interesting. Doing the practice is what brings the "groking" of this. How do I know, well because now I can grok it a bit where before I couldn't.
Shinzen reminds me of my grandma. He can talk about a story of buying a coffee for hours because he has to include the way there, all details about the shop and brief history of coffee consumption and plant growing techniques and conditions. You need two days to listen to what happend in one day. And I admire that level of verbosity.
+Hrnek Bezucha That's quite interesting to hear. I've felt lately, that my own verbosity has been dragging my personal practice into the muck...plus my proclivity toward wanting to share when excitement surfaces upon new discoveries. Balance is what I seek, and purification will bring it in time.
Hrnek Bezucha Often the "barking" sessions, when they occur in my experience...seem to be associated with a need/desire to keep revising my speech/*concepts* in real time. Not always, but primarily when I am not being mindful of the positive excitement of a subject taking over my emotional consciousness and ruining an otherwise elegant attempt to share. :P Concern for things like this is just a distraction. It will run its course I am sure.
Angloth Exactly. With mindfulness I notice all sorts of new phenomena now that I am quieter more often. I have one friend who has a kind of passive personality...when I am around him there is this deep silence, like a vacuum. I am finding all sorts of new experiences to use as practice.
The mindfulness guide "30 Days to Stop Giving a Shit" by Corin Devaso is pretty good. Simple and easy mindfulness and meditation lessons...but the point is to keep it light and practical. I recommend it. It should be on amazon or a book distributor.
Really appreciate Fritjof's book the Tao of Physics. Gives you so many perspective on ways of experiencing the world other than the one were conditioned into.
29:20 en uno de los videos sobre el Caduceo (o quizá en el libro sobre ascendentes, o en ambos) Eugenio Carutti dice lo mismo sobre una base de la realidad consistente en una red de relaciones que preexisten a los objetos, una cosa rarísima.
Watching Ray Charles, I might think, there is joy. Hearing Ray Charles I might think, there is joy and there is pain from the very soul of a human being. Heroin or not, those vibes were real.
What is he really teaching? Is he teaching buddhist meditation or is he attempting to teach meditation in his own way. It seems he is always refering to buddhist pali and zen. It seems like he is attempting to create his meditation group of followers in telling such experience making one listener amazed. Once audience are amazed one become superman speaker.Meditation is simple but the way he explain it is making it rocket science.
In the video, he explains that meditation practice is not separate from science. As science progresses, so can meditation practice. Going beyond your teacher...
Meditation has numerous faces. Practice vipasanna meditation to ends repeated birth or to practice meditation without knowledge to ends repeated birth and death, or other objectives. But for Buddhist our concern is The teaching of LORD BUDDHA meditation to Enlightment.(To stop repeated cycle of birth and death) The way was instructed on how to end the continuous cycle of endless rebirth that are sufferings. The practice involves the knowlege to apply in our daily life involve the understand and adhere to the 8 NOBLE PATH and the 4 NOBLE TRUTH. The meditation instruction is VIPASANNA breathing contemplation that in within itself is the two kinds of PATH and TRUTH. When one is in this kind of meditation, attending to these two kinds of PATH and TRUTH will awaken one from the dream of existence and ends the cycle of birth and death. Other way of meditation instruction if practice without knowledge of stopping the cycle of birth and death cannot escape the samsara bonding of birth and death phenomenor. Hope this explaination can shade some understanding and make one understanding that all different type of meditation instruction may seems to be the same but when understanding is concerned, your meditation teacher may not be teaching you as the BUDDHA did. And your practice cannot leads you to stop the phenomenor if endless birth and death. BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI
Rolling Stones, 1968? "When I search that faceless crowd, a swirling mass of greys and black and whites, it don't look real to me, oh don't it look so strange….". I have to practice this "weird" (yuppienewage interlude) meditation to watch Shinzen videos. Just kidding.
