New Horizons: Innovative Teachers of Awakening - Part 1: Shinzen Young

Shinzen has this simple formula he will often display while teaching:

Pain x Resistance = Suffering

Pain x Equanimity = Purification

Purification is maybe a big idea, but you can think of it as the undoing of what keeps us closed off to a more expansive and connected state of being or awareness. When we open to pain and allow it to move through us uno

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This journey of finding a meaningful alignment with ourselves and the world is not an easy one. To gain more clarity and understanding in this domain, I usually encourage people to explore the work of James Hollis. His book Living An Examined Life is a great start and full of meaningful contemplation that is sure to bring more clarity to the journe

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