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The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Publisher's Summary
“Enlightenment” - is it a myth or is it real? In every spiritual tradition, inner explorers have discovered that the liberated state is in fact a natural experience, as real as the sensations you are having right now - and that through the investigation of your own thoughts, feelings, and perceptions you can awaken to clear insight and a happiness independent of conditions.
For decades, one of the most engaging teachers of our time has illuminated the many dimensions of awakening - but solely at his live retreats and on audio recordings. Now, with The Science of Enlightenment, Shinzen Young brings to listeners an uncommonly lucid guide to mindfulness meditation for the first time: how it works and how to use it to enhance your cognitive capacities, your kindness and connection with the world, and the richness of all your experiences.
As thousands of his students and listeners will confirm, Shinzen is like no other teacher you’ve ever encountered. He merges scientific clarity, a rare grasp of source-language teachings East and West, and a gift for sparking insight through unexpected analogies, illustrations, humor, and firsthand accounts that reveal the inner journey to be as wondrous as any geographical expedition. Join him here to explore:
- Universal insights spanning Buddhism, Christian and Jewish mysticism, shamanism, the yogas of India, and many other paths
- How to begin and navigate your own meditation practice
- Concentration, clarity, and equanimity - the core catalysts of awakening
- Impermanence - its many aspects and how to work with them
- Experiencing the “wave” and “particle” natures of self
- Purification and clarification - how we digest mental blockages and habits through inner work
- Emerging neuroscience research, the future of enlightenment, and much more
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- Amazonia settler
- 2019-01-13
A wealth of knowledge to be found in this book!
This covers enlightenment with tradition, science, and experience. Shinzen Young is a brilliant teacher, weather your new to meditation, or experience in it, he covers the material in a way both would get an abundance of knowledge.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-06-22
Wow A great read and seeds of wisdom.
I alternated between 'aha' and big grins.
I'm going to register over and over. enjoy!
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- T. Man
- 2021-04-30
Very easy listening and so rich with wisdom
A small meditation practice and this book just opens up your curiosity to an infinitely deep practice
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-10-02
Life Changing
I ve been meditating on a regular basis for about 10 years. Many retreats and many books have been helpful for my journey so far. This particular book The Science of Enlightenment has been a revelation for me. Especially Impermanence and Non Self are now for me not only abstract concepts to reach for but they are now a reality that « I am » able to really taste during formal meditations but more importantly in different moments of everyday life. For that I am really greatful to Shinzen Young.
I would recommend this book to every experience meditator who would like to nurture his/ her practice with a rich fertilizer!
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-04-25
Insightful and Inspiring
I really loved this book. It elegantly encapsulates how the path to enlightenment is being lucidated by innovations in science and technology. I share the hope for the democratization of enlightenment for our world.
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- Paul ledroit
- 2022-07-26
Enlightenment 101
Whether you are new to meditation or a seasoned meditator and are interested in going deeper this book is for you. The audiobook complements the textbook. I recommend you get the book as well. I have listened to the audiobook many many times there is always something you. I go back to the textbook to review and continue to find new insights.
This book is the culmination of an entire life spent in learning about and practising various practices in order to teach in a step-by-step method how it is possible for all of us to become enlightened.
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- martin
- 2018-09-04
Complex and brilliant
Shinzen gives an explanation of the path to enlightenment that is both useful to my low level of understanding and will continue to be useful as I progress. The narrator and production were excellent.
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- Jerry L.
- 2020-07-04
Great listen
way over my head hoping there would be exercising that I could do. But great listing.
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