Have you ever seen those James Bond or Mission Impossible movies wherein there’s non-stop action in the opening sequence? Well, that’s how it felt like with Shinzen Young’s opening keynote at Buddhist Geeks Conference 2011. Shinzen presented his vision (aka “happy thought”) for a Science of Enlightenment. I’ve already heard him speak about this in [...]
I’m all packed for the first ever Buddhist Geeks Conference 2011. Looking forward to rubbing elbows with my geeky Buddhist buddies from around the world. During the conference I’ll be doing updates via Twitter using the #BGeeks11 hashtag. You can follow along by adding this hashtag to your favorite Twitter client. At the end of [...]
I’ve been applying Shinzen Young’s Five Ways approach to my meditation practice for almost a year now and all I can say is that I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of it. It had dramatically improved my sitting meditation, relieved my migraine headaches, made me consistent with my open practice, and most importantly, it [...]