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Interview with Shinzen Young

by Ben on March 3, 2010

“The higher your baseline Concentration, Clarity, and Equanimity, the broader and deeper your happiness…. that’s pretty much the E=MC2 of human happiness.”

-Shinzen Young

Shinzen Young, flower

This is an interview I’m very excited about!

Shinzen Young is a very skillful Vipassana (mindfulness meditation) teacher, who has been practicing meditation for about 40 years, now.

He has taken powerful Eastern concepts and not only made them more palatable to the Western mind… but also created simple and powerful methods of training that can make a meditative lifestyle a reality for anyone who is willing to take up the practice.

And recently, he agreed to do an interview…

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5 Flavors of True Happiness!

by Ben on February 26, 2010

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    happiness, smile

    “To live happily is an inward power of the soul.”

    -Aristotle

    But this isn’t where most of us are looking.

    We want to get all the cool stuff the world has to offer… because that will make us happy…

    Right?

    We want to set powerful and efficient goals, because achieving our goals will lead to all the positive feelings we desire… or will it?

    What is real satisfaction in life… and how do we ‘get’ it?

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    “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

    -The Buddha

    This is a video clip from a presentation by my good friend, Tamo (of ProjectGlobalAlchemy.com), called

    Success Through Happiness!

    It’s a little information on the life of the Buddha that is very pertinent to our time… and the backwards way in which most people try to achieve happiness…

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    The Portable Prayer of St. Francis

    by Ben February 18, 2010 -Mysticism

    “Pray, and let God worry”
    -Martin Luther
    You might have read my previous post on Compassion & The Prayer of St. Francis…
    One of the reasons I started to love the Prayer of St. Francis so much, is that I have an audio recording of it that I keep on my ipod… so I can listen to the [...]

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    Blast from the Past: Stretching Seconds Meditation

    by Ben February 10, 2010 -A Bit of Zen...

    This article was originally published on March 27th, 2008.
    It is a different way of looking at the moments in your life… for greater appreciation… for more joy in life.
    The can be done through formal meditation, but it can also be done every moment of every day!
    I don’t think the general definition of ‘life’ out there [...]

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    Off Topic: Just for fun…

    by Ben January 29, 2010 General

    I thought you might get a kick out of this…

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    But Do You Really Know…

    by Ben January 27, 2010 -Mysticism

    “The most important key is knowledge”
    -Dr. Yang (Founder of Yang’s Martial Arts Association)

    “The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.”
    -Ed Parker (Founder of American Kenpo Karate)

    And the first step to truly understanding is learning how to learn… exploring how to really gain knowledge!

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    Master Meditation, Master Your Life!

    by Ben January 15, 2010 General
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    “Writing a book is an adventure.  To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement;  then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant.  The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out [...]

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    Free Access to the New Membership Site?

    by Ben January 7, 2010 -Mysticism

    If you would like a chance to win free access to Warrior-Mystic.com (scheduled to launch in February)…
    Then just take a couple of minutes to  Answer This Simple 8 Question Survey
    What’s the survey for?

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    New Year’s Real Solutions… Realistic

    by Ben January 6, 2010 -Goal Setting

    Had to keep it very brief, today!

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