How to Change Your Life with Mindful Awareness ~Shinzen Young

Shinzen discusses "formal practice" and "practice in life" as he shares special strategies for allowing Mindful Awareness Practice to totally transform your being.
Recorded at a residential retreat in Southern California in May 2014 by Stephanie Nash
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Recorded and edited by Stephanie Nash: www.strategicmindfulness.net , www.mindfulnessarts.org/blog

[@McLKeith]

I enjoy Shinzen's terminology. "The terrorists are in the cockpit". "We're having a stress rehearsal".

[@Heartbeat1948]

This is such a good talk. I feel the way he presents this and saying 10 minutes at least is quite freeing to those who believe they don't have time to meditate.

[@kathleenbrady9916]

I love Shinzen, he is clear, compassionate and understanding💞

[@giniaa2707]

Shinzen makes it all more doable in "real" life!

[@nondualcafe]

Excellent talk. Lays out the whole training system plainly.

[@McLKeith]

Beautiful and succinct teachings. Thank you Shinzen.

[@worldtraveler8372]

I thoroughly enjoyed this! Thank You!

[@harrykoschorreck8144]

Haventh seen you in many years..since the IBMC...Harry, the gardener handiman at 928 S new Hampshire. Been with Sound Current since 73. In Oregon coast now...Good you are still at it.

[@lorraine4720]

Thank you!

[@dhammaboy1203]

Haven’t got the taste of equanimity curve yet (pracstibg lazy 20 years and seriously about 8 years) but I look forward to it! : ) As always filled with wisdom! Thanks Shinzen! 🙏🏻

[@jamescroall9966]

"The Terrorists are in the cockpit"so funny.

[@brycelight1]

love it

[@Heartbeat1948]

Oh wow, the last comment was written before listening to the whole thing. This is really good and so very practical. I know mindfulness is quite well known these days, but I assure you that what Shinzen;s approach brings is way beyond any other mindfulness teaching,

[@islamtanvir9230]

great

[@Paseosinperro]

I find this talk very valuable. I think is the first time I hear someone speak about this thing of maintaining the consciousness during the day, something I have though myself on my own way.

[@harrykoschorreck8144]

to keep balance one must also allow the human aspects its fair time.

[@jeremiahada7653]

Om

[@Rover08]

Thank you for this. How long do serious students sit daily in formal practice?

[@TheMikakoivu]

30-60 minutes is plenty. How serious? Some meditate for hours every day. But trying to rigidly adhere to a set time limit will be frustrating when deep physical and emotional pains pop up (whether due to formal practice or just life).

[@harrykoschorreck8144]

Plaator not how long , but the quality...focus of attention is one key. Another is to focus on the INNER. Long as the focus is on breathing..attention is on the outer world of illusionary matter...it will never get you there...go within the wise ones say..so the attention must be on the inner somehow...for me that tool is the Audible Sound Current...63 and dont care what you all do, it is all good...but real progress means control of attention, ability to focus, to go beyond mind, beyond the material illusion. Doable.

[@Theembodimentchannel]

The dharma virus can be installed - RSI interruption software. No joke

[@Jabulani97]

What are accelators? Can I Access the writings Shinzen mentioned?

[@IRLiAm]

You've probably already found them by now, but in case it's still valuable: shinzen.org/Articles/artOutlineOfPractice.pdf See page 10.

[@centrino538]

yung wuji buy his books ☺️

[@KindredLeela]

4:53 Stop on a Dime.

[@taufiqUSA]

English is not my first language, can someone explain what he means by start/stop on a dime, micro hits?

[@kevinmai2947]

The ability to "Start/stop on a dime" means the ability to meditate anytime , in any situation. Micro hits means meditating in small, many increments. Like 12 meditations a day lasting 10 to 30 seconds.

[@dennismason3740]

"...the terrorists are in the cockpit.." - "...beach ball of death..." - mindfulness ignores cliches of conflict.

[@Paseosinperro]

I am thinking that, if liberation or enlightenment is the consequence of a number of hours of proper meditation, why don't we take a month, a year or whatever to only meditate? If is so important, why just do it a few minutes a day and may be a couple of retreats in one year? You can say "but you have to work" but one can organize life for that: saving for a while, living a minimalist way of life...

[@harrykoschorreck8144]

More important is to know the parts of your SELF, the ability to be aware currently, balancing the parts of self. Ability to focus attention, choose thoughts so have control of mind which create emotions. The real key for personal experience is to go within, too much ego wont allow that, and attention must be on the "within " . Focus on breathing is still focusing on the outer world..

[@matwejtroitschanski12]

You're completely right I believe, that is probably the best way. But most people are just not willing to do that.

[@corradojohnsopranojr.9426]

Paseosinperro For one thing, the ego-mind will come up with a thousand excuses why that's a bad idea. From its perspective you're taking a huge gamble. "What if liberation is fictitious?" might be a recurring thought, even if you don't believe that on a deeper level. There are plenty of people who have meditated for decades and aren't liberated, in fact, that is I'd say 99% of people who've meditated for decades. The 1% are yogis or monks who commit to it fully on a daily basis. So if you are going to take time off to attain liberation, ordinary mindfulness is not enough - you should take an approach that hammers directly at the sense of self. What I personally do is a type of a self-enquiry practice where I seek the most genuine sense of self I can find (which is being an observer) and then ask "Who is observing?" Now the observer is obviously never found, because any sense you can have of it is another observation, so eventually you can get an enlightenment experience where you realize this on not an intellectual but actually experiential level.

[@markus4698]

+Long View (from my formal google account) I can certainly say I've become more mindful, especially in the compartment of mental images and mental talk (which used to lack previously) and this has allowed me to be more disciplined in both practice and life in general. I think mindfulness of inner experience is considerably tougher to carry over into daily life than that of outer experience. I should also mention I've been fairly lazy and on-and-off with formal practice for pretty much the second half of 2015. At the end of 2015 I did two what you might call home mini-retreats, both 3 days, which I believe set me to a permanently higher baseline, hence I've been able to have discipline and consistency in my routine. I quit self-inquiry about 5 months ago (didn't seem to be getting anywhere with it) and tried a kind of "note everything as much as possible whenever possible" approach which was alleged to be extremely potent on some forum. Well, perhaps it would be if one would do a two-week retreat and use it all throughout waking time. With constant other obligations, though, I found it to lack clarity and constantly forgot to apply it out of formal practice. Right now, I too practice sds, ideally 3-4 hours per day (in which may or may not succeed depending on how well I manage my time). From next week on, I plan on doing one sit with "do nothing" (to become less of a control freak) and the rest of both formal and informal practice just noting "gone". Since sds is allegedly a quick (but painful, oh dear) method, combining it with noting "gone" which operates as kind of a reverse self-inquiry will hopefully maximize progress.

[@SherKhan-ku9oq]

+Markus My friend, what is sds?

[@ivandansigmun3891]

I've been practicing mindfulness for a lon long time and I haven't got a clue what this guy is talking about

[@mehrdad2685]

ikr , feels like it make no sense

[@Good.shepherd420]

Theyre talking about you on rogan right now, get ready to blow up

[@codinginflow]

which episode?

[@LeeGee]

Silly title, overly sensationalist, doesn't suit the excellent content.

[@LeeGee]

Thank you for posting, though!

[@centrino538]

Lee Gee you are not promoting wise speech...

[@golgipogo]

Yeah, agreed, title should be a source of embarrassment to him. Content assumes that one is familiar with his extensive (unexplained) idiomatic speech.