The Science of Enlightenment

Shinzen Young

Session One

Session Five

Introduction
Extraordinary states of focus and presence
Cultivating concentration power
Expanding the scale of your life
Meditation as part of all activities
What is a meditative state?
The physiological effects of meditation

Introduction
The six senses
Modes of thinking
Dimensions of emotion
Being mindful of body sensations
Noting the quality of your feelings
Insight and purification
Acquiring skill at feeling

Mindfulness: The Most Fundamental Skill

Session Two

The Importance of Complete Experience

Introduction
Meditating for your health
Common misconceptions about meditation
Happiness independent of conditions
A complete experience
How your meditation benefits others
Developing true friendliness and compassion
Session Three

Mysticism in World Culture

Introduction
The meditative core of world religions
Three aspects of religious experience
What is enlightenment?
A link among the mystics
Hinduism and the technology of concentration
The perennial philosophy
Session Four

Relaxation and Reality

Working with the Feeling Body

Session Six

Mindfulness and Equanimity

Introduction
How thoughts and feeling intertwine
The self as an interactive wave
Meditation teachers as living models
The activity of personality
Untangling your negative emotions
Wave/particle complementarity
The moment of true peace
Session Seven

Global Relaxation

Introduction
Global Relaxation Meditation
Session Eight

Focusing on the Feeling Body

Introduction
Free-Floating Awareness Meditation

Introduction
Focusing the mind with relaxation
The lessons of effort and equanimity
Your wave-like nature
The unified vibration of all life
Changing your understanding of self
Happiness in the midst of suffering

Sounds True
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Session Nine

Session Fourteen

Introduction
Meditation as inner catalyst
Paradigms of purification
Relieving friction among the senses
The paradox of complete experience
The technique of no technique
Strategies for increasing awareness
Classic objects of meditation
Focusing on feelings and thoughts

Introduction
The oblique path of shamanism
The body of the absolute
Fundamentals for your practice
Impetus to follow the path
Momentum and maintenance
Liberation vs. entertainment meditation

Choosing Your Object of Meditation

Session Ten

Working with the Thinking Mind

Introduction
Fixation and drivenness
Observing your thoughts
True peace of mind
Contacting your fundamental confusion
Samadhi through the senses
Session Eleven

Working with Thought

Introduction
Thinking Process Meditation

The Realms of Power, Part Two

Session Fifteen

Impermanence: The Stone Buddha Dances

Introduction
Impermanence as a facet of insight
Suffering and no-self
Are the mountains moving?
The guises of impermanence
Sensing the vibrations of your body
The ultimate inner massage
Session Sixteen

Impermanence: The Effortless Flow

of Nature

Introduction
Clarifying Meditation

Introduction
The taste of purification
The marathon monks of Mt. Hiye
Digesting karma
Merging spirit and matter
Impermanence as unifier
The activity called you

Session Thirteen

Session Seventeen

Introduction
The pathless path
Three layers of consciousness
The creative nature of impermanence
Relating to your intermediate realms
Problems with the realms of power
The ascent of St. John of the Cross

Introduction
The formless womb
Pondering the obvious
The pairs of fundamental forces
Diadic models in Western philosophy
Mystical Judaism
Rising and passing in Buddhism

Session Twelve

Clarifying the Sense of Self

The Realms of Power, Part One

Impermanence: Expansion and Contraction

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Session Eighteen

Session Twenty-Two

Introduction
Participating in the activity of the source
The polarization of the whole universe
The zero that is everything
Cessation of thought and feeling
What will you do when the earthquake comes?
Being the master of every situation

Introduction
The complexities of Zen
Soto Zen and the relevence of sitting practice
The practices of Rinzai Zen
Vajrayana Buddhism
Sexuality and spiritual growth
The relevence of ritual
Three styles of Buddhism

Impermanence: Something from Nothing

Session Nineteen

Expansion and Contraction of the Breath

Introduction
Breath Meditation

Session Twenty

The Complete Experience of the Senses

Introduction
Sensory Field Meditation
Session Twenty-One

The Big Picture: The Rise of Buddhism

Introduction
The sciences of enlightenment
Three vehicles of Buddhism
Three geographical regions of Buddhism
The Buddha and asceticism
The Middle Way
Liberation and responsibility

The Big Picture: The Spread of Buddhism

Session Twenty-Three

The Big Picture: Science, Spirituality, and

the Future of Humanity, Part One
Introduction
Universal mystical experience
Different expressions of enlightenment
Origins of meditative experience
The power of ceremony
Internal and external technologies
The intersection of science and spirituality
Session Twenty-Four

The Big Picture: Science, Spirituality, and

the Future of Humanity, Part Two
Introduction
The enlightened scientist
The human significance of the impersonal
How science illuminates meditation
A new model for enlightenment
New perspectives on the one reality
The spiritual themes of modern physics
The next mode of human awareness

Sounds True
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