Shinzen Young is one of the best meditation teachers I have ever met. He is very intelligent and extremely knowledgeable about science, and he speaks in a way that someone who values scientific, logical and rational thinking would find extremely attractive. (Also,...
Meditation requires a balance of effort and relaxation. Too much effort makes meditation tiring and unsustainable, while too little effort causes you to lose your grip on your attention. The classical analogy for this balance is having just the right tension on the...
For the Google movie, Meng should be played by Jet Li or Jackie Chan. “Hey, you not take picture with me, I break your face! YA!!” If played by Jackie Chan, add a funny scene where Chris Tucker (playing himself) keeps calling Meng “Jackie” for...
All my best ideas come to me during my morning meditations. I’m not sure if that makes me a really good or really bad meditator. I think it’s both, and neither, simultaneously. During my morning meditation today, I figured out what I want for my40th...
I need some suggestions from you, my friends. You see, I have an embarrassing problem: I’m turning 40 in October. I’m going to be, like, old. Pretty soon, boy scouts will offer to help me to cross the street and people will give me senior citizen...
