Shinzen Young The Science of Meditation in Action

A Buddhist Library





Argonauta Strategic Alliances Consulting Inc.
Argonauta is dedicated to helping individuals and companies achieve positive transformation. Maria Gonzalez applies Mindfulness to the corporate strategy development process, to developing strategic alliances and to all aspects of business. She also offers introductory and advanced classes in Mindfulness training, one-on-one coaching, workshops and retreats. You can visit her site at www.argonautaconsulting.com and read her blog on Mindful Leadership at http://www.argonautaconsulting.com/blog/ .

Boulder Mindfulness
Johann Robbins teaches Shinzen’s Basic Mindfulness in classes, day longs and yearlong Dedicated Practitioner Groups in Boulder, CO.

The Center for Mindful Learning
The Center for Mindful Learning empowers young people with the skills to create healthy, happy, and successful lives. We teach innovative awareness-based skills, using a variety of age-appropriate activities through education, technology, and mindfulness techniques, that help young people to: (1) Improve concentration, (2) Manage and understand emotions, (3) Feel better about themselves, (4) Find healthy and safe ways of relaxing, (5) Set goals to improve their lives and the world around them.

Centro de Meditacion (CMV), in beautiful Vilcabamba Ecuador

Charles T. Tart Home Page and Consciousness Library Online
"If you're interested in areas like consciousness, altered states of consciousness, dreams, Gurdjieff, hypnosis, meditation, mindfulness, personal growth, parapsychology, transpersonal psychology, or how to be both a scientific person and a spiritual seeker, there's good quality material here for you."

Conquering Arthritis
Barbara Allan, one of Shinzen's students, describes the important role of Vipassana meditation in her complete and lasting healing from severe arthritis and food allergies. Read Shinzen's prologue.

Descendants of the Earth
I find a natural complementarity between the "Eightfold Path" of Buddhism and meditation and the "Red Road" of Native American spirituality. The Descendants of the Earth is a group in Southern California with which I have had the privilege of being associated for many years. --Shinzen

DharmaNet
This is one of the oldest and most substantial Internet resources for Buddhist study and practice. Here you can locate centers and practice groups around the world, find retreat schedules and explore innumerable quality links to Buddhist and meditation related sites.

Emotional Healing through Mindfulness Meditation
By Barbara Fishman
"This book contains the stories of eight women who faced great trouble and were transformed by a combination of Eastern mindfulness practices and Western psychotherapy. After each story, you'll find the instructions for a mindfulness meditation. Taken together, these meditations are a course in what I call Mindfulness Psychotherapy." Read Shinzen's forward.

Impermanent Sangha
Johann Robbins holds silent wilderness and nature retreats in the mountains and deserts of Colorado and Utah, all taught using Shinzen’s system.

L.A. Dharma
A focal point for insight meditation in the Los Angeles area. Here you'll find retreat listings, lots of sitting groups and other event listings, including everything VSI sponsors in LA.

Long Beach Meditation

Mindfulness Meditation Training Programs in Ontario

Mindfulness Path

Meditation Classes in the Los Angeles Area
With Stephanie Nash
Including: Meditation for Food Issues, Meditation for Actors & Artists, Introduction to Meditation. Special workshops, ongoing classes and private (and phone) sessions using Shinzen's techniques.

Meditation and Psychotherapy
Have you received training in psychotherapy? Have you had some training with Shinzen in meditation? If the answer is yes to both these questions, consider joining a listserv devoted to an ongoing conversation about the place of Shinzen-style meditation in psychotherapy. Read how others are using his meditative exercises within their practice of psychotherapy and consider trying them yourself. To become a member, e-mail us at mindfulpsych@emotionalhealing.net and write the word "subscribe" in the subject line. For more information, e-mail Barbara Fishman, the moderator, bfishman@rhd.org.

Mount Baldy Zen Center
Learn more about Joshu Sasaki Roshi, Shinzen's main teacher.

Music-based Mindfulness
Shinzen has developed several successful music-based mindfulness programs. Equally successful has been a program to teach music-based mindfulness to disadvantaged teenagers at the King Street Youth Center in Burlington, Vermont. Soryu Scott evolved the "Mind the Music" program and currently implements it through The Center for Mindful Learning. Soryu appears in the following videos along with the students who movingly describe what that experience has been for them.

Check out the Mind the Music YouTube videos:
What We Do
Stories
How it Works
Past Present Future

Sounds True
A wonderful online resource where you can find numerous audio, video and music for the inner life. You'll also find interviews with some of the authors.

TASTE
TASTE is an online journal devoted to transcendent experiences that have been reported by scientists.

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