This is a clip from The Zen Mind documentary, filmed in Japan. It serves as a nice overview of zen - a topic very few people can fully understand.
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This video features a short guided meditation from the Founder of Compassion Focused Therapy - Professor Paul Gilbert.
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How does mindfulness and meditation improve health? Helen Weng, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, explains that training our internal mental lives can have positive effects on our minds, health, and relationships.
Shinzen Young spoke of how late night sitting can restructure how you experience the world, during a recent Southern California retreat. An all-night “Yaza” (or night sit) was scheduled to begin right after his dharma talk. Many people decided to do it after hearing this description.
This is a clip from the feature documentary “A Joyful Mind.”
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Meditation has never been so popular. But can it really make you smarter, happier and healthier? New research shows that it can affect the body as well as the mind, slow down the aging process, and even alter the structure of the brain.
Chögyam Trungpa gives a general orientation to meditation in the Buddhist tradition and gives meditation instruction. This is essentially the same basic instruction that he gave throughout the time he was in the United States.
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Use this 7 Min Meditation to set a positive intention for the course of your day. This all-levels mindful meditation is designed to help you gather yourself, connect to what feels good, and bring you a healthy focus for your day.
How do we change our relationship with anxiety? Former Buddhist monk and Headspace co-founder Andy Puddicombe answers your questions about stress and anxiety, and how to overcome them with self-care and mindfulness.
Charles T. Tart, PhD, is emeritus professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, as well as the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Here he presents basic and simple ideas related to the practice of meditation.