The-Science-of-Enlightenment-by-Shinzen-Young.pdf

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The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works By Shinzen Young A central notion of Buddhism is that there’s not a thing inside us called a self. One way to express that is to say that we are a colony of sub-personalities and each of those sub-personalities is in fact not a noun but a verb—a doing. Defining enlightenment is notoriously tricky. Almost anything you say about it, no matter how true, may also be misleading. Having said that, here’s a place to start: you can think of enlightenment as a kind of…

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