Category: Enlightenment

Working With the Thinking Mind

Working With the Thinking Mind

Posted by | Mar 25, 2018 | , |

The following is a summary of The Science of Enlightenment Session #10, by Shinzen Young.  We are currently reviewing this series as a group in the Individuals Anonymous Facebook group, and you are encouraged to join if you have not done so already.  You may also purchase The Science of Enlightenment audiobook on Amazon, here.  Can an ordinary person in the normal world become enlightened? U Ba Khin is a great example of somebody who is efficacious in the real world, yet highly enlightened.   He has a very stressful government position with the Burmese government in which he was...

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Choosing Your Object of Meditation

Choosing Your Object of Meditation

Posted by | Mar 20, 2018 | , |

The following is a summary of The Science of Enlightenment Session #9, by Shinzen Young.  We are currently reviewing this series as a group in the Individuals Anonymous Facebook group, and you are encouraged to join if you have not done so already.  You may also purchase The Science of Enlightenment audiobook on Amazon, here.  Concentration has a central role in the mystical or enlightenment path all over the world.  Concentration is a microscope which can be used to uncover the nature of our experience.  The concept of vipassana meditation involves utilizing an object as the focus of attention, then...

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Mindfulness and Equanimity, Part 1

Mindfulness and Equanimity, Part 1

Posted by | Mar 9, 2018 | , |

The following is a summary of The Science of Enlightenment Session #6, by Shinzen Young.  We are currently reviewing this series as a group in the Individuals Anonymous Facebook group, and you are encouraged to join if you have not done so already.  You may also purchase The Science of Enlightenment audiobook on Amazon, here.  Sensations are either stable or moving and changing in some way. If the sensation is stable and tranquil, great.  If it is moving and painful, ok.  Detect it, allow it, and you are in touch with the fundamental quality of nature, impermanence. After practicing...

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