Divide and Conquer: How the Essence of Mindfulness Parallels the Nuts and Bolts of Science
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- čas přidán 3. 02. 2010
- Google Tech Talk
January 28, 2010
ABSTRACT
Presented by Shinzen Young.
The purpose of this talk is threefold: (1) to describe how senior adepts use mindfulness to reduce suffering and gain insight into selfhood and emotions. (2) To point out how the method they use in many ways parallels what scientists do when confronted with a complex and inscrutable system in nature. (3) To discuss how this fundamental parallelism between the two endeavors can become the basis for a productive collaboration in the future.
Bio: Shinzen Young became fascinated with Asian culture while a teenager in Los Angeles. Later he enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Buddhist Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Eventually, he went to Asia and did extensive training in each of the three major Buddhist meditative traditions: Vajrayana, Zen, and Vipassana. Upon returning to the United States, his intellectual interests shifted to the burgeoning dialogue between Eastern internal science and Western technological science. In recognition of his
original contributions to that dialogue, the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology has awarded him an honorary doctorate. Shinzen's innovative techniques for pain management derived from two sources: The first is his personal experience dealing with discomfort during intense periods of meditation in Asia, and during shamanic ceremonies with tribal cultures. The second is some three decades of experience in coaching people through a wide spectrum of chronic and acute pain challenges. Shinzen leads meditation retreats in the mindfulness tradition throughout North America, and has helped establish several centers and programs. - Věda a technologie
I understand your concern, but I vouch for this myself; I was treated (by at least a dozen psychiatrists and psychologists) for a very strong bipolar depression that lasted more than ten years, and I can attest with all sincerity that mindfulness meditation(after about two weeks of practice, three hours a day) not only cured me, but defined me as a person.
Also, Shinzen Young's material is very good(he has a channel here on youtube), there's absolutely no harm in giving it a try.
From all the stuff I read and know on Buddhism (2 books, loads of websites, some mindfulness experiences), this video contains 75%+ of my knowledge about the philosophy.
It's like he explained all of it in a short and concise manner.
awesome! Shinzen is the best meditation teacher i've encountered so far. his very lucid and scientific approach to meditation really takes the mist out of mysticism
Thank you Google for providing this high qualitiy knowledge for free. Keep up the good work !!
Greetings from Germany.
Shinzen is awesome.
Shinzen makes mindfulness meditation accessible to the most skeptical agnostic who might eschew all organized religions. Shinzen's methodology is so precise and scientific in the truest sense, that anyone can practice and enjoy the benefits of mindfulness meditation.
good stuff son....one of the best talks i've heard...i was a zen monk (since '65) of the "idiot" school....but it still worked.
Thank You, Shinzen, for explaining the systems that work behind the process of mediation and also explaining the states of enlightenment. I highly appreciate for providing the concise explanations for concepts in Buddhist teachings with modern scientific methodology.
life changing
ok, this officially makes Google cool.
Why does this not have millions of views damnit?
I loved this lecture. A great man, mr Young.
Excellent.
A great help, thank you!
thank you google for the great videos and the great knowledge!!!
my original teacher--great to see the dharma as taught then and now by one of our great western teachers.....
AMAZINGLY AWESOME!
omg this guy is fantasic, meditation never made so much sense
good stuff son....one of the best talks i've heard...i was a zen monk (since '65) of the "idiot" school....but it still worked.-----my 1st distraction was; "where the breath intake goes as it gets absorbed into the lungs and what it looks like if the breath could see""
Who's still watching to this brilliant talk in 2024?
I love this, and I hope he can get the funding. Who will research a method for reaching a mental state that is fundamentally opposed to our consumerism?
That was a very exciting and interesting talk. I enjoyed his choice of analogies, quite appropriate. Gotta check out this Mindfulness...
Very nice. Young reminds me of Alan Watts.
ERROR: The interactive transcript is really cool, I think theres an error though,24:49 "we`ve dreamed sleep" I think he says, "we have dreamless sleep" Meaning, sometimes we have sleep thats dreamless, and then we arent conscious. Not sure of course, but, thats what I think. could ask him.
If I'm not mistaken, but I believe that there was actually a research article I had found that explained how meditation through a regular basis had actually increased the brain's plasticity. Now I have no fine understanding of neuroscience, but if I'm not mistaken. Wouldn't the increased plasticity, depending on where it is coming from, essentially help in restoring those damaged areas? Feel free to correct me if this not be the case.
I am curious to know why there were so few people in the audience. Was this due to a lack of interest, or perhaps some other reason?
I would have hoped that more Googlers would be interested in hacking their wet-ware.
Can you tell me by large about the Csikszentmihaly subject?Thank yoy.
the research he was talking about in on the topic of Flow:
www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow?language=en
This is harmless but certainly not based on anything but imagination and pseudo-technical terminology for the obvious. If this is deep our society is in bad shape. The average techie is so narrowly educated that she is impressed by anything vaguely humanistic. It is a good wholesome instinct so I support it, but I hope one who becomes entranced by this video
Sources for your claims or do you just want to vent?
I saw "high quality", checked resolutions, 480p :c
The camera to the left needs to meditate more :)
Where can I train with this guy!?
you can remotely train with him and teachers he's trained via his "home practice" program:
basicmindfulness.com/
when he's training Home Practice, and his residential retreats are listed here:
www.shinzen.org/retreat-schedule/
No...not at all. The subjective experience can not be tested scientifically but the effects can be objectively tested. Such as heart rate, anxiety levels, etc. Even subjective anecdotal evidence can become scientifically valid if it becomes statistically significant. There is a difference between subjective experience, objective observation and subjective evidence.
IN SEARCHED THE MINDFULL NUT WTF
My friend, brain has the ability to rewire itself, and thats how people learn. to second thing i like to mention to make the results of meditation much more powerful is to use the Name of God Allah, as Sufis do, such as breathing in while mentaly saying Allah, then breathing out while mentally saying Hu. Doing so it will run the negative entities that are living in the aura of one, and help him to be more focused and happy. Try it then tell me your experience please. thanks
after this speech it seems very easy to gain these skills... but it isn't.
try to understand that meditation for many people doesn't help to overcome their main problems.
for example, if you suffer from attention deficit disorder and you don't know, you can meditate 30 years without profit, because, it's not a question of will & training, but it's a question of a damaged structure of some brain areas.
the same if you suffer from deep anxiety. this alert mechanism will not disappear so easily.
NO!...not at all. Please keep your fictional character out of this. This is a scientific approach to meditation, with proper studies and tests used to determine its effectiveness. Adding fictional characters and bizarre belief systems only distorts the results. You simply do not need a cruel and fictional character to meditate. In fact I think it would be detrimental to meditation, because instead of spending your time in awareness your now lost in imaginations and fairy-tales.