“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
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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by Ben on February 26, 2010
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“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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by Ben on February 22, 2010
“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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