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Many Voices, one journey. Sounds true.com. com. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Shinsen Young.

Shinsen is a pioneering meditation teacher, the

founder of the Vipassina Support Institute, and an expert in the field of pain management.

With sounds true, Shinsen has created several programs

designed to help people work with physical and emotional pain

through meditation, including a book CD called Breakthrough Pain.

Additionally, Shinsen has called upon his decades as a meditation teacher

to create an introductory audio program on meditation,

a beginner's guide to start meditating now.

In this episode, Shinsen and I spoke about what science and meditation have in common,

and how these two fields can collaborate in the future to create technologies of awakening.

We also spoke about how it's possible to grow

from extreme spiritual practice situations.

And then finally, in Chinsen's own life, how he has transformed through the practice of meditation,

and then an area in his life which meditation seemed not to be able to accelerate his growth in the way that he wanted.

Here's my very provocative conversation with Shenzhen Young. and young.

Shinsen, I know you have a great love for bringing together the world of science and the practice of meditation. And I'd be curious to know what you're working on in this regard right now and why you're so excited about it. Well basically I look upon the endeavor of meditation in general and particularly the form of meditation called mindfulness.

I look upon that endeavor and the science endeavor

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