Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Shinzen Young

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

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

Born: 1944

Source: Wikipedia

I think the problems of the world aren't caused by people coming together and saying «let's make problems». They're caused by people coming together and saying «let's make solutions» without having solved the problem of their own suffering.

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Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim

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If you can't be disciplined, be clever.

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Suffering = Pain x Resistance

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Today’s enlightenment is tomorrows mistake

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As long as something wants to arise, let it. As long as something wants to last, let it. As soon as something wants to pass, let it.

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The ultimate expression of meditation comes when we can feel all the pains of the world, experience them with mindfulness and equanimity so they dissolve into energy, and then recolor that energy and radiate it out as unconditional love, moment by moment, through every pore of our being.

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Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.

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Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Shinzen Young

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