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Shinzen Young

Auteur de Break Through Pain

43+ oeuvres 278 utilisateurs 5 critiques

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Shinzen Young is a highly respected meditation teacher and scholar with extensive background in the major Buddhist traditions. His innovative technique for Mindfulness-Based Pain Management comes from his own challenges with pain as well as four decades of guiding others through their chronic and afficher plus acute pain issues. His key interest lies in the merging of Eastern meditation with Western science, and he currently leads meditation retreats throughout North America. afficher moins
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Œuvres de Shinzen Young

Break Through Pain (1995) 74 exemplaires
Five Classic Meditations (2000) 8 exemplaires
Pain Relief (2004) 3 exemplaires
Break Through Difficult Emotions (2000) 2 exemplaires
Being peace [CD] 1 exemplaire

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Date de naissance
cir. 1940s-1950s
Sexe
male
Nationalité
USA
Lieux de résidence
Los Angeles, California, USA
Études
University of Wisconsin
UCLA
Professions
meditation teacher
Organisations
Insitute of Transpersonal Psychology
Courte biographie
After majoring in Asian languages at UCLA, he entered a PhD program in Buddhist Studies at the University of Wisconsin. As a part of his thesis research, he lived as a Shingon (Japanese Vajrayana) monk for three years at Mount Koya, Japan. It was then that he received the name Shinzen (真善).

Also during that time, he became friends with Father William Johnston (author of Christian Zen). Fr. Johnston helped broaden Shinzen’s interests to include comparative world mysticism and the scientific study of meditative states.

Upon returning to the United States, his academic interests shifted to the dialogue between Eastern meditation and Western science.

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A mish-mash of information about Buddhist practice. Shinzen is a master and a good teacher, mostly for students with a very "think-y", rationalist approach. This book is a compendium of his teachings and idiosyncratic approach to Buddhism. Interesting throughout, but not the book I would recommend to a budding student.
 
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wordloversf | 1 autre critique | Aug 14, 2021 |
My personal reaction to this was 5 stars, but I give it 4 stars in context of wider appeal.

Despite meditation's focus on equanimity, books on the topic often veer from breathlessly dramatic to bone dry in tone. This book strikes a nice balance. Before delving in, there are some things to be aware of:

1) It is not a nuts-and-bolts guide to meditation. It is a high-level treatise on the systematic exploration of what enlightenment is and how humans can reach it.

2) This book will be most accessible to people with some interest in and previous exposure to meditation, contemplative prayer, and cognitive psychology and neuroscience.

If you have interest or some previous knowledge of these topics, this book will probably be a gem to you. If not, it will probably seem tedious and perhaps mystifying in parts. For those willing to dive in anyway, you will be rewarded with a great deal of food for thought about common assumptions about the human perception of reality and how we can methodically and scientifically work with and study that perception.
… (plus d'informations)
 
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jellyfishjones | 1 autre critique | Sep 26, 2016 |
A broad overview that addressed the one thing no yogi or meditation instructor has ever accepted from me - some people *cannot* focus on their breathing. I mean, they *can* but it makes things worse. For me, focusing on my breathing causes mini panic attacks: chest clenching, sudden inability to get the oxygen all the way to the lungs, increased pulse, etc. This book acknowledges that it can be very uncomfortable to focus on your breathing. Sadly, the advice is to ignore the awkward.
 
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benuathanasia | Sep 12, 2016 |
Short book with the enemies and basics of meditation. Includes a short practice.
 
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becka11y2 | Jan 19, 2016 |

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Statistiques

Œuvres
43
Aussi par
1
Membres
278
Popularité
#83,543
Évaluation
½ 3.7
Critiques
5
ISBN
27

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