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Mantra: Sounds Into Silence

2017

A feature-length documentary, exploring the new music and social phenomenon of chanting, that focuses on the everyday people who are finding healing and a sense of inner peace by singing mantras together with others just like them.

85 min

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Is Meditation Self-Centered?: Adapted from the Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works by Shinzen Young

People sometimes criticize meditation as being self-centered. Let’s consider that issue.

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Shinzen Young
2016
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07:32

What If You Have No Concentration? What Are the Benefits of Concentration? ~ Shinzen Young

This is part of an interview Shinzen Young did with Stephanie Nash in January 2009.

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Shinzen Young
2009
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07:27

How Do I Know Which Kind of Meditation Is Best for Me? ~ Shinzen Young

The purpose of this interview was to introduce people to meditation and/or to Shinzen in a more casual, talk-show type format - thus Steph is playing the role of non-meditating talk-show host while Shinzen maintains his role as insightful, innovative teacher who speaks from deep experience & wisdom.

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Shinzen Young
2009
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13:00

Late Night Sitting Can Change Your Life ~ Shinzen Young

Shinzen Young spoke of how late night sitting can restructure how you experience the world, during a recent Southern California retreat. An all-night “Yaza” (or night sit) was scheduled to begin right after his dharma talk. Many people decided to do it after hearing this description.

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Shinzen Young
2012
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15:02

"Do Nothing" Meditation ~ Shinzen Young

Shinzen talks about the technique he calls "do nothing", which is associated with what other traditions call choiceless awareness, just sitting, the great perfection (dzogchen), and mahamudra. Shinzen's instructions for how to do this is: "Let whatever happens happen.

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Shinzen Young
2011
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