Shinzen Young: The Science of Enlightenment, Part 1

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Shinzen Young is a renowned mindfulness teacher known for his live gatherings, where he uses a scientific, "algorithmic" approach to explain the many aspects of meditation. With Sounds True, he has published the decades-in-the-making book The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and Shinzen speak on his approach to mindfulness, including a method of breaking down sensory experience into easily parsed categories. They talk about the three core powers of focused attention—sensory clarity, concentration, and equanimity—and how mindfulness can free us of the impression that our selves are static and unchanging. Finally, Shinzen and Tami discuss the different ways in which we can understand the concept of enlightenment, including an in-depth consideration of what Shinzen calls "classical enlightenment." (66 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by Sounds True.com.
0:04.0	At sounds true.com, you can find hundreds of downloadable audio learning programs,
0:09.0	plus books, music, videos, and online courses, and events. At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves
0:17.1	as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey, offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, guest is Shenzhen Young.
0:44.7	Shenzhen is an American mindfulness teacher who is known for his algorithmic approach to
0:50.7	mindfulness and often uses mathematical metaphors. approach to
0:55.0	illustrate illustrate medevna to illustrate meditative phenomena.
0:58.0	He leads meditation retreats throughout North America
1:01.0	and has helped establish numerous mindful centers and programs
1:05.1	including the Home Practice Program. With sounds true, Shinsen has written a new book,
1:12.0	a book several decades in the making, called The Science of Enlightenment.
1:18.0	How Meditation Works, where he merges scientific clarity, a hybrid of eastern and western teachings,
1:27.0	and offers readers an uncommonly lucid guide to mindfulness meditation.
1:33.6	In this episode of Insights at the Edge,
1:36.6	Shinsen and I spoke about how one of his approaches
1:40.4	to mindfulness includes dividing and conquering, also known as a strategy
1:46.8	Untangle and Be Free in which he breaks down sensory experience into categories of seeing, hearing, and feeling.
1:57.8	We also talked about how Shinsen defines mindfulness as consisting of three core powers of attention, concentration
2:06.7	power, the power of sensory clarity and the power of equanimity, and how by developing mindfulness we can be liberated from identifying with the
2:18.2	self as a thing and instead recognizing the fluid quality of the self.
2:26.4	We talked about the observer trap in meditation
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