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Shinzen Young

January 01, 1970

Shinzen Young (真善, Shinzen) is an American meditation teacher. He leads residential and phone-based meditation retreats for students interested in learning the Vipassana (insight) tradition of Buddhism. He was originally ordained in Japan as a monk in the Shingon (Japanese Vajrayana) tradition.[1] He has studied and practiced extensively in other traditions, including Zen and Native American traditions.

Shinzen Young Teaching at Harvard, 2012

He frequently uses concepts from mathematics as a metaphor to illustrate the abstract concepts of meditation. As a result, his teachings tend to be popular among academics and professionals.[2] His interest in integrating meditation with scientific paradigms has led to collaborations with neuroscientists at Harvard Medical School,[3][4] University of Massachusetts Medical School, Yale, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Vermont.[5] He is working on various ways to bring a secular mindfulness practice to a wider audience using revamped terminology and techniques as well as automated expert systems.[6]

Young has adapted the central Buddhist concept of the five skandhas or aggregates into modern language, grouped them into sensory categories with potential neurological correlates, and developed an extensive system of meditation techniques for working with those categories individually and in combinations.[citation needed]

Personal life edit

Shinzen Young was born Steve Young in Los Angeles, California. His parents were Jewish. In middle school, he became fascinated with Asian languages and cultures. After graduating from UCLA as an Asian Language major, he enrolled in the University of Wisconsin's Ph.D. program in Buddhist Studies. To gather materials for his doctoral dissertation, he spent several years at the Shingon monastery at Mount Kōya in Japan, where he was ordained as a monk in 1970 and received the name Shinzen.[7] During these early years in Japan, and spurred by the tragic death of an academic mentor, he decided to leave the academic path to fully commit to the practice of meditation.[8]

Books edit

  • Break Through Pain: A Step-by-Step Mindfulness Meditation Program for Transforming Chronic and Acute Pain (2006) ISBN 1-59179-199-5
  • The Beginner's Guide to Meditation (2002) ISBN 1-56455-971-8
  • The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works (2016) ISBN 1-59179-460-9

Audio publications edit

References edit

  1. ^ [1] Fall 2005 By Polly Young-Eisendrath, in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review June 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ . Archived from the original on 2014-12-13. Retrieved 2014-12-12.
  3. ^ "Understanding Enlightenment Could Change Science - Psychology Tomorrow". Psychology Tomorrow Magazine.
  4. ^ Shinzen (2 April 2012). "Shinzen's Blog: Basic Mindfulness - Basic Science". shinzenyoung.blogspot.com.
  5. ^ University of Vermont. "Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit : University of Vermont". uvm.edu.
  6. ^ (Podcast). Buddhist Geeks: Seriously Buddhist, Seriously Geeky. 2008-12-28. Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
  7. ^ . shinzen.org. Archived from the original on 2013-05-13.
  8. ^ Young, Shinzen (2005). The Science of Enlightenment Audio CD. Sounds True. ISBN 978-1-60407-292-1.

External links edit

  • Official website

Essays outlining his meditation system edit

  • What is Mindfulness?
  • An Introduction to ULTRA: Universal Library for Training Attention
  • See, Hear, Feel: An introduction
  • An Outline of Practice
  • Five Ways to Know Yourself: An Introduction to Basic Mindfulness

January 01, 1970
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