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Shinzen Young on the Larger Vision for Ramona

Shinzen shares the larger vision behind Ramona: a new way for human wisdom traditions and emerging technology to work together. Support the campaign and help bring this vision to life: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/support-visionary-work-from-shinzen-young

Ramona Demo: Practicing with a Personalized Practice Companion

An early demo of Ramona in action. Your support helps us improve the experience, test it with real users, and make Ramona more useful for the Shinzen Young community. Support the campaign to get early access and help shape Ramona’s development: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/support-visionary-work-from-shinzen-young

Introducing Ramona: Shinzen Young’s Personalized Practice Companion

Shinzen Young introduces the Ramona Project and the next step in his life’s work: helping scale access to mindfulness training, emotional maturity, clarity, equanimity, and values-aligned action. Support the campaign and help us build the first public pilot of Ramona: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/support-visionary-work-from-shinzen-young

Advanced Meditators Experience of Time ~ Shinzen Young, Har-Prakash Khalsa, Todd Mertz

Todd Mertz asks Shinzen Young and Har-Prakash Khalsa about their experience of time and how that may have been affected by their decades of meditation. Shinzen experienced technical issues during the call, causing him to turn off the visuals on his tablet. Then his battery ran out, and he disappeared from the conversation at 13+ minutes. Video from March 5, 2026 ----------------------------------------- Hello Dharma Friends, Shinzen has recently retired from teaching. If you are interested in a systematic and comprehensive mindfulness practitioner training grounded in the best of Shinz

Module One: Cultivating the Jewel of Mindfulness Practitioner Training ~ Har-Prakash Khalsa

Hello Dharma Friends, Shinzen has recently retired from teaching. If you are interested in a systematic and comprehensive mindfulness practitioner training grounded in the best of Shinzen's mindfulness system, along with psychological-relational teachings, I am happy to announce that, for the first time, the Cultivating the Jewel of Mindfulness Practitioner Training Program is now available online. This recording gives an overview of the five modules in the CtJM Practitioner Training and a more detailed look at Module One. The first of five modules will be conducted via Zoom over 18 ses

Guided Self-Nurturing Meditation from Cultivating the Jewel of Mindfulness ~ Har-Prakash Khalsa

Hello Dharma Friends, Shinzen has recently retired from teaching. This Self-Nurturing Guided Meditation is taken from the first class of the forty-class Cultivating the Jewel of Mindfulness Practitioner Training Program. This systematic and comprehensive program is for meditators who want to deepen and integrate psychospiritual growth across all aspects of their lives. If you are interested in a systematic and comprehensive mindfulness practitioner training grounded in the best of Shinzen's mindfulness system, along with psychological-relational teachings, I am happy to announce that, for

Guided See, Hear, Feel Sensory Spaces from Cultivating the Jewel of Mindfulness ~ Har-Prakash Khalsa

Hello Dharma Friends, Shinzen has recently retired from teaching. This See, Hear, Feel Sensory Spaces Guided Meditation is from the first class of the forty-class Cultivating the Jewel of Mindfulness Practitioner Training Program. This systematic and comprehensive program is for meditators who want to deepen and integrate psychospiritual growth across all aspects of their lives. If you are interested in a systematic and comprehensive mindfulness practitioner training grounded in the best of Shinzen's mindfulness system, along with psychological-relational teachings, I am happy to announce

Welcome to Cultivating the Jewel of Mindfulness Practitioner Training Program ~ Har-Prakash Khalsa

Hello Dharma Friends, Shinzen has recently retired from teaching. If you are interested in a systematic and comprehensive mindfulness practitioner training grounded in the best of Shinzen's mindfulness system, along with psychological-relational teachings, I am happy to announce that the Cultivating the Jewel of Mindfulness Practitioner Training Program is now available online. The first of five modules will be conducted via Zoom over 18 sessions, held twice a week from October 5 to December 3, 2026, on Mondays and Thursdays, 1:30 to 3:30 PM ET. Each Module One cohort is limited to 12 par

A Life of Practice and Service: Shinzen Young at 80

Part One - In April 2024, during the Cultivating the Jewel of Mindfulness Retreat at Dharma Treasure in Cochise Stronghold, Har-Prakash Khalsa interviewed special guest Shinzen Young. 00:00 – Photo: Shinzen emerges from the mud hut at Dharma Treasure 00:17 – August 7th, 2024, is Shinzen’s 80th birthday 00:44 – A commitment to a life of practice 2:15 – First time sitting on the cushion, Yamada Mumon’s temple, pretending to meditate 4:20 – 100-day commitment, Mt Kōya Ordination, saying goodbye to space-time concerns 7:18 – Beginning to “teach” at Mt Kōya, Thích Thiên-Ân, learning Vietnamese, a

How Shinzen Uses the Term Spaciousness ~ Shinzen Young and Har-Prakash Khalsa

00:00 - Intro titles 00:22 - During an Ask Me Anything period during a Shinzen Young March 2022 online retreat, Har-Prakash begins to ask Shinzen about his use of the term "spaciousness." 02:05 - The sources for Shinzen's use of spaciousness include the Theravada formless (aruppa) jhanas (absorptions), the Tibetan Mahamudra and Dzogchen traditions, and Sasaki Roshi's use of the word space, and the term spaciousness was a rough way of integrating these formulations. 02:47 - Har-Prakash disappears, and Shinzen references the 2013 Harvard Mapping the Minds of Meditators study when cessations occ

Born Between Expansion and Contraction: Responding to the Needs of Your Larger Identity ~ Shinzen

Shinzen Young references the arising and passing stage found in Buddhaghosa's Visuddhimagga. He mentions the next stage of detection "when something arises it is already passing." He speculates on its temporal and spatial perception, including the simultaneous expansion and contraction of inner and outer sensory spaces. Shinzen talks about Zen's riding the ox backward and literally praying continuously with each sensory event as a tangible contact with the source. He goes on to talk about how expansion and contraction animate the life of a primary star and how we are literally made of stardu

Enlightenment and the Ten Zen Ox Herding Pictures ~ Shinzen Young

Shinzen shares that the ten zen ox-herding pictures can be interpreted as showing the stages on the path of enlightenment and as the process of truly grasping what consciousness is. He shares that the last three pictures - 8, 9, and 10 - tell us the substance, appearance, and ultimate use of enlightenment. This is a new edit of what used to be a 3-part video. Filmed on the second last evening of a 14-day intensive Jan. 9, 2009, at La Casa de Maria Retreat Center in Santa Barbara. 00:00 - Introduction to the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures 02:25 1. Searching for the Ox 04:24 2. Seeing the Footprints

Towards a Balanced Enlightenment ~ Shinzen Young

0:00 - Title 00:06 - A deeply enlightened person can still make horribly bad judgments and have misguided opinions 01:34 - "Enlightenment is better and not nearly as good as everybody thinks it is." 02:17 - Deep enlightenment doesn't make you the best person to set up a social structure (i.e. run an organization) 02:55 - Your spiritual teacher is not perfect: be careful what you project onto them 03:30 - A teacher is just an old student 04:10 - Classical enlightenment is balanced enlightenment 05:14 - The Buddha was described as vijja-carana-sampanno: - vijja - knowledge - carana - behavi

Guided Compassion and Healing the World Meditation ~ Shinzen Young

Shinzen leads a short guided meditation on compassion and healing. This is most appropriate for anyone feeling pain due to any event(s) or actions that have affected many others. "Something has happened; it reached out and hurt many people. In connecting with that, we connect with the enormous web of similar things that have been happening for tens of thousands of years all over the planet. This immense pool of poison and pain of humans hurt by other humans. We can connect to that. We have that within us. There's a place inside that's so far in that it's out in each of us. You can call it

The Happy Wanderer ~ Shinzen Young & Har-Prakash Khalsa

Detecting the interest flavour associated with the usual wandering mind can help change it from a source of suffering to a source of pleasure and freedom. This is the one occasion when I spoke up from behind the camera : ).