Be The Master of Every Situation ~ SHINZEN YOUNG

Shinzen tells the story of his experience in 2 monasteries in Japan and something that was told to him that he will never forget. www.shinzen.org
Recorded during a residential retreat in Southern California in January 2017 by Stephanie Nash.
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[@gladman9634]

Imagine how wise he would be if he was shinzen old

[@n-xsta]

😂😂😂

[@Starborne398]

😂🤣😂🤣

[@dj67084]

Shinzen is the teacher I’ve needed to grow my practice. It’s been beautiful to discover waking up (the app) and then, Gary Weber, then Shinzen with his precise teachings. Waking up helped me turn a every-few-days meditation habit to a daily one. Gary Weber showed me that a scientifically verifiable path is possible. I loved his books but Shinzen is really connecting the last dot for me because I truly wanted a middle way, kind of scientific/logical… kind of spiritual/guru (imperfect words but hopefully understandable). Shinzen’s definitions are crystal clear and they don’t require too much intellectualization. It’s hard to describe but I just feel more confident letting go in meditation after listening to him speak. I feel like “I get it” on a deeper level every time I listen. And as I “get it” more, the original zen books I read years ago make more “sense”. I put all these things in quotes because it’s not an intellectual understanding as much as it’s a clear deepening of my connection to what is. But however it’s manifesting I appreciate Shinzen! And I hope everyone is growing in their practice as well. It’s beautiful to read how others are benefiting ❤🧘🏾‍♂️📿🙏🏾

[@arielrae3806]

Now this is interesting. I do something that might be similar, but what I call it isn't nearly as poetic: "Extend your proprioception to the world around you" Proprieception is the sense of movement and position of your body. When you write with a pen or pencil, you can sense that the pencil is just an extension of your body. You feel the tip on the paper, even though you have no nerve endings there. You know how it feels to be a pencil scratching on paper. A while ago, I played a puzzle game called Braid. On one of the levels, when you move your avatar forwards, time moves forwards. When you move backwards, time moves backwards. This allowed me to extend my proprieception to time and to the environment. It unlocked something in my head where I was able to feel like I was causing the unfolding of the world around me. This might also be related: When I walk past a bush, or a rock, or a pile of wood, and hear the skittering of critters nervous about my passing, I imagine that it's like I've strummed a guitar. The world around me is an instrument that I play with my presence.

[@JulianaBittencourt24]

Sounds like a beautiful way to experience the moment. I'm going to take notes of what both you and shinzen have said here and try to slowly learn to apply some of these concepts in my life. Thanks for sharing.

[@JulianaBittencourt24]

By the way, I also really like the word proprioception.

[@vincecallagher7636]

Excellent, I can sense what you are writing. Thank you, this is useful.

[@flexnetuser2268]

I've never heard anyone who is so precise in their speech. I simply could not relate to mindfulness until I heard the recordings of Shinzen Young! 👍 💕 ✨

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[@jktrader37]

Same here - Shinzen is the Master ( o me ) of using words that bring tremendous clarity to the obscure !

[@charliecrome207]

These videos are nuggets of gold, deserves 1000x more views

[@flexnetuser2268]

Charlie Crome Totally agree!

[@knq1]

THANK YOU FOR ALL THE UPLOADS MANG

[@felice9907]

Thank you, master-host Shinzen!

[@Simbiryanin1]

Thank You, Master

[@KindredLeela]

Revisiting this after a couple of years. Clarity ❤

[@sjpigott]

Wonderful, thank you Stephanie :-)

[@freddelameilleure2969]

Excellent as always

[@jn3763]

What a classic Shinzen story.

[@molh394]

Be the Host every where you go. Had a shit day. Didn't even feel the will to fight or transcend the "meh-ness" in the head and heart and all that. And then this video appears in my recommends, and I listen to it and like ah, as sometimes is, it is a gift perhaps to tell me about mastering situations no matter how "meh". But I didnt expect him to not only talk about seeing all situations (with a focus on the challenging ones) not only as a fellow traveller from the same source. But as the....same as you. Enlightenment. He moved seemlessly right at the end into self dissolving, and then directly being the other. Damn. I did get what I expected, but then he went above and beyond and then in an instant reached escape velocity of the world which that itself was in, on into space and beyond. That was something. See through the situation by not being there...

[@common_man1337]

Great content and great video quality. Super smooth 60 fps!

[@gustavoherreramx]

Amazing

[@Robin-Woo]

Re: 12:00 - “Loving your world into existence” Your words confirm my view that in the arising and passing-away of phenomena, the Heart is associated with the arising aspect of phenomena while the Mind is associated with the passing-away aspect. Thus, “Chitta” refers to both the Heart and the Mind. Bhanga Nana would be the limiting case of phenomena passing-away, unveiling formless noumenal Awareness. Conversely, the arising of phenomenal form is from the Heart. Perhaps, with pure love, forms arise in an ideal way that parallel the Ideal Forms of the Sambhoga-Kaya. Re: 13:20 - “self and other born from the same source” This would be the view in Chittamattra (a.k.a, Vijnanavada). A karmic seed ripens... buds… and flowers… artificially splitting into self and other in an illusory manner. Re: 15:25 - “identity moves out and lives inside what was formerly the other” A “figure-ground reversal” that is the subject of so many of your videos. A reversal of the NLP First Position and the NLP Second Position. In this case, Second Position is not a product of the imagination; Second Position is literal and is a transpersonal experience. When the Transpersonal Second Position subsumes the Universe, that would be my understanding of being the “host” or the “master” of the House.

[@peacebyond]

Thank You

[@hman6145]

Ive always thought that you are your awareness not your ego but i think your awareness shapeshifts so when you look at something and there is no thought running through your head you are that thing for that small amount of time its just that your body is the point of attention but you as the awareness and the sense you are using consumes the thing you are placing your attention on.

[@mordantvistas4019]

The resolution on this video is so high I could smell that marker.

[@adityapatange8]

Done man.

[@allencoleccionistayvideoju6438]

holaaa!!! me encantaria poder seguilo pero no hablo ingles y trate de ver los videos y no resulta la traduccion a español :( saludos .....

[@studios11love47]

Wow like in my dreams. Is that possible 24/7?

[@markbrad123]

Find that people pushing sense impressions(body language,facial expressions, or speech) and the minds interpretive reactions tends to put a spanner in that one. Suppose you could just flush and let go that with breath through thought.

[@joshlamson5520]

Hopelessly nitpicky point- Gary Snyder's essay is about Spring Sesshin at Shikoku-ji, not Rohatsu... But I love this talk, especially the Abe Masao connection.

[@Krasbin]

I'm trying to understand what Shinzen means exactly with master. What I think he means is that you don't only experience the universe, but you create it. A perception of an external object (or internal sensation for that matter), arises because it comes from your source of consciousness. And you are the master/host of your source, as the source is inside your mind, like a master/host of a house.

[@surayaji9950]

The master is Consciousness or Buddha Mind. The Same Self you discover yourself to be is the same Self of all. So when you abide as that Self all situations and circumstances are Mastered because in essence there is no difference no 'other' but your own Self. Or in other words Buddha Mind pervades the whole universe, existing right here/now. There is no 'other'.

[@gladman9634]

@@surayaji9950 bruh

[@edkubi4716]

so is that mean when your mind drifts away and you kind of lose awareness for that period of time. is that mean you are doing the master or host in that thought or object?

[@TheTarutau]

Ed Kubi I believe he is referring to no mind. And how it feels to reach it. So at first the I thou relationship. Then there is only the thou. Self has flatlined and no mind as a way to experience has come to pass.

[@TaoLeaf]

The Tao is (like) an empty vessel...

[@frepi]

Shingon is not a form of zen?

[@anthonytroia1]

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[@ivanvincent770]

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[@lawnmowerman7]

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[@teclote]

Is this hamster a master of anything? Navigating the idiosyncrasies of clerical life is an exercise in conformity.

[@JohnRHughes]

Did you call Shinzen Young a hamster?