Hey, this is Leo for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about the meditation technique called

Strong Determination Sitting, and I'm going to show you how to use this one technique

to supercharge your existing meditation practice. Let's talk about strong determination sitting.

Let's talk about strong determination sitting.

This is a technique that's very, very simple, but also incredibly powerful if you can apply it in your life.

And I'm going to show you exactly how to apply it right here.

I learned this technique from Xinzen-Yung who's a Zen master but he's a very interesting

Zen master because he's a Westerner and he in the 1960s and 70s he went to Japan and he actually became an ordained Buddhist monk and he was in the Zen monasteries and he learned everything there and then also what he did is he he started studying

Enlightenment and other

spiritual traditions around the whole world and he basically came up with this model for mindfulness was just amazing go

learn it from him. But anyways what I want to talk about here is this strong determination sitting, which I learned from him and he's a big proponent of this.

In fact, the whole Zen tradition is a big proponent of strong determination sitting.

What I love about this technique is that it shows you just how weak our minds are in Western cultures.

So in cultures that don't have any strong spiritual or meditation traditions,

so basically cultures outside of like China, India, Nepal, Japan, and Southeast Asia,

where meditation is very seriously practiced.

Cultures outside of that generally are extremely ignorant about what's possible

with the human mind, what's possible with human human mind what's possible with human consciousness is

incredible and Shinsen yang he likes to talk about the marathon monks and there was

actually a book written about this in the late 80s it's called the

marathon monks of Mount Hee and this is just incredible what these monks can do. These monks have endurance beyond what you would think is humanly possible.

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